I've been holding out 'til now, the day of the Veronica Mars season three premiere, to announce this, because it seemed more timely that way--

BenBella's doing a Veronica Mars Smart Pop anthology, titled Neptune Noir-- a name that I swear we came up with before that fan convention popped up!-- to be published in May 2007. We've got a fabulous ( Read more... )

Patricia Storm's chick-lit cartoon

This Is Chick-Lit, and editor Lauren Baratz-Logsted, immortalized in cartoon form. Featuring Jonathans Franzen, Lethem, and Foer, and Lauren smacking somebody upside the head with a copy of William Gaddis's The Recognitions.

If you're going to be at WorldCon this weekend, stop by and see our publisher Glenn in the dealer's room.

If you're going to be at DragonCon over Labor Day weekend, come by and visit Yara and Leah in the dealer's room there.

I was thinking, the other day, about what makes me fall in love with a television show. The first show to ever win my heart was, undoubtedly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer-- I'd watched it religiously from the very beginning, but it was season six, and the end of "Smashed," that really hooked me. Not because I was overly fond of Spike, or particularly ( Read more... )

First, there are days where I bless YouTube's existence; this video, "Darth Vader Being a Smart Ass", makes today one of them.

Second, if you ever sat around thinking, "Gee, I wonder what the staff of BenBella Books looks like," here's your chance to find out: the Dallas Morning News did a really nice feature on us this past weekend, which you can ( Read more... )

Really interesting article on television fandom as community, and its use as and source in marketing

I'm a sucker for not only analysis of TV shows (like the stuff in the Smart Pop series), but analysis of the communities that spring up around them. Thought this article might be of interest to you all, as well! (Courtesy of Smart Pop contributor ( Read more... )

BenBella's heading en masse to Superman Returns tomorrow afternoon-- for now, here's Karen Haber's essay on Superman for your reading enjoyment. (And if you like what you see here, you can always check out our Man From Krypton for more great essays on the Man of Steel!)

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Clark Kent Just Gets Better Looking Every DayKaren Haber ( Read more... )

I know you thought I’d forgotten, but we’re back with June’s Smart Pop Friday Interview-and interviewee Karen Haber, the Hugo-nominated editor of Meditations on Middle-Earth, co-author of Science of the X-Men, and author of the recent science fiction novel Crossing Infinity. She’s a contributor to Smart Pop titles The Unauthorized X-Men and the ( Read more... )

very cool story from USA Today on Lost theories

The reporter interviewed a couple of our essayists from Getting Lost, Joyce Millman and Charlie Starr, and our editor Orson Scott Card.

As I suspect you have not been checking the page daily in anticipation of Laura's update of smartpopbooks.com the way I have, I thought I'd drop a line here and let you all know the spring books are up-- including previews of the X-Men, Superman and Desperate Housewives anthologies, with more to come as we finalize the interiors ( Read more... )