You may or may not know about the Bordertown books. They were among the earlier shared-world anthologies (hello 1980s) and were, in a word, awesome.

Let me try that again: AWESOME.The basic premise is that the land of Faerie and the real world reconnected somehow. At the border of the two stands a town (see what they did thar?) where both magic ( Read more... )

All this talk recently about "pastor" Jones and his threats to several copies of the Quran has sparked the occasional discussion about the sacrilege of burning a book ( Read more... )

The September 2010 Indie Next List* has come out. Here it is ( Read more... )

First spotted at Jenny Rae Rappaport's blog, a discussion in the NYTimes about teachers trying a new thing of letting kids choose what books they want to read in school ( Read more... )

I love Amazon's "statistically improbable phrases" metric for books.

From a book that might be decent research material for all you historical and based-on-historical writers, we have the following list:
halcyon reign, masque designs, prodigy houses, civilizing arts, court culture, cultural patronage, court patrons, great courtiers, court ( Read more... )

Gakked from the Smart Bitches: An article from the New York Times rehashing the genre vs literary thing again ( Read more... )

On the train this morning I saw an interesting ad for a book. The first book in the series was True to the Game by Teri Woods.

The ad was for the sequel, True to the Game IISo what's the deal there? Have we reached the point where we title books like movies and videogames? Was this a tentative title on the publisher's list, but no one ever got ( Read more... )

...because we get books and booze ( Read more... )

Via Writer Beware, the tale of Chronicle Books endorsing a vanity publisher for kickbacks.

The original Newsweek article demonstrates that the writer of that article has not the slightest fucking idea how real publishing works. Tony Dokoupil may be a professional journalist, but he's just as ignorant as any deluded self-publisher who doesn't ( Read more... )

Been a while since I posted anything that I expect to piss people off. (Just remember, kids, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on.)

I just read this link (courtesy of eeknight), and there's ( Read more... )