Everyone’s talking about the latest issue of Rolling Stone, with the picture of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on it. Continue reading
Publishing
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I subscribe to Publishers Weekly (the bible of the U.S. publishing industry) and get a news feed every morning. Today there was some gobsmackin’ news to wake up to: E.L. James has been named Publishing Person of the Year.
Within the confines of the book industry, it’s a very big deal.
Let me refresh your memory. E.L. James is the penname of Erika Leonard. She wrote an erotic trilogy, the titles of which are Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, and Fifty Shades Freed.
They are selling like shovels in a snowstorm, like handguns when the aliens invade, like toilet paper at a diarrhea festival. It is the fastest-selling adult (as against the categories of juvenile, or young adult) series ever. There’s going to be a movie. Continue reading
The lines between traditional publishing (with a proper editor), self-pub and just plain printing are getting ever more blurred.
As you can tell by the title of this post, I’m tending to regard them much like a cat who is seeing a new puppy introduced into the household. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Will it wreck the joint? Continue reading