Really big news in the book world today, guys! Tor/Forge has announced that starting in July, their e-books will be published without DRM. What does this mean? It means readers will no longer be locked into one device on which to read their e-books. It means if your kindle dies and you buy yourself a Nook, your Tor/Forge books will work for ( Read more... )

So if you've been on the internet at all today, you've probably heard the huge huge ridiculously huge publishing news already. In case you haven't, allow me to fill you in on the details. It seems that the US Department of Justice has essentially decided that price fixing is against the law, and that the agency pricing model qualifies. (Enormous ( Read more... )

Welcome to Genre Reviews, where it's all about JK Rowling, all the time! Well ok, not really, but she has come up a number of times lately, and today is no exception. If you head on over to Pottermore, you'll find the Harry Potter books are now available in e-book format. Yes, I know, this doesn't sound like such a big deal, but the terms for e- ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you read a book and you wonder how it ever got published? Like maybe someone sold their soul to make that deal, or perhaps the publisher was on something that day?

Well, this week the feds may have answered that last question. Ahem.

It seems that two parcels of marijuana were intercepted on their way to their destination ( Read more... )

It's been a week full of news and links, hasn't it? Well, I'd hate to break that pattern, so here's a little more for you.

After a long period of very publicized problems, it seems Dorchester is done for good. The owner of the publisher, John Backe, has filed a notice of foreclosure. There's a bit of confusion as to exactly which assets are ( Read more... )

Instead of a bunch of links to awesome book deals, today I bring you a bunch of links to... uh, other things. Ok, nothing's quite as good as free or super cheap books, but I do have some interesting things for you to peruse in your copious amounts of spare time (ha!).

First, a fantastically written article in honour of International Women's Day: ( Read more... )

It's Tuesday, and around here that generally means we catch up on our links. So get your clicking fingers ready, and let's dig in!

VIDA has put together their annual data about women authors represented in newspapers and magazines. The 2011 version doesn't seem any more promising than last year's numbers. You know, it's such a shame that women ( Read more... )

So it seems JK Rowling heard me whining (why yes, it's all about me and certainly not a coincidence at all). Recently Little, Brown, and Company announced they will publish Rowling's next book, which is to be an adult novel completely independent of her Harry Potter books. No word yet as to a release date or what the novel will be about, but I'm ( Read more... )

It's no secret the big 6 New York publishers dislike e-books and have done everything they think of to try to keep them from growing. Unfortunately for them, e-books are here to stay and continue to grow and thrive. This makes for some angry penguins.


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You may perhaps have heard about RWA, the Romance Writers' Association. It's an organization that brings writers in contact with other like-minded writers and is well known to help give authors just starting out a boost, through contests, feedback, and the interactions with more established writers. They're not strictly romance authors; as long ( Read more... )