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Dec.05.2008
From Locus Magazine, December 2008:
Borders, already in a weak financial state before the current economy crisis, warned publishers that it will cut book orders across the board and sent out notice to at least one major distributor that it will not be making payment for two months, due to "...
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Dec.05.2008
Writers, beware. The recession has come home to spend the holidays with us.
Garnered from diverse sources:
"Irwyn Applebaum, publisher of Bantam Dell, an imprint that publishes authors including Dean Koontz and Danielle Steel, and Steve Rubin, publisher of Doubleday Publishing Group, which...
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Dec.04.2008
I read through the NYT Review of Books Top 100 List (so you wouldn't have to). I was looking for any science fiction or fantasy that might have snuck in there, not really expecting to find it. But there is this one strange Russian novel . . .
It's called The Sacred Book of the Werewolf. It...
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Dec.02.2008
I'm fairly certain that visitors to this blog (and thank you one and all) are either avid readers, writers, or in many cases, both. So the following survey won't apply to you, but it surely does affect this business we're in. Many thanks to Linda Glaser for the link:
The following statistics...
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Nov.27.2008
So they're calling it "freeze-lite" in a sort of non-denial denial:
NEW YORK – Reports of a buying freeze at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin is news to the publisher of one its imprints.
"I don't work at the Harcourt offices so I called to find out if the story was true," Otto...
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Nov.24.2008
Publishing is not recession-proof after all
I've been in the business of entertainment all my life. That means I haven't always made lots of money, but I've always felt my career to be recession proof. Even when times are bad, people want their music and their books. But this, in Publisher's...
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Nov.22.2008
This very pretty woman is Stephenie Meyers, who is having a huge success with her teen vampire Twilight series, now a major motion picture, as they say. Because I move in literary circles, we've had some discussions about these books. There are plenty of objections to them: anti-feminist themes...
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Nov.20.2008
This, my dears, is what passes for discourse on a so-called news program in the early twenty-first century:
My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to...
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Nov.17.2008
Disclaimer right up front! That's not my title, it's Cynthia Crossen's. I have good editors, excellent editors (love you, ladies and gentleman!). But a propos of my plaintive post a few days ago about a Man Booker Prize winner, I found this piece by Crossen in the Wall Street Journal most...
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Nov.14.2008
In the '90's, the takeover by Taliban in Afghanistan and the devastating loss of women's freedoms that followed inspired my novel, The Terrorists of Irustan. And now, I'm horrified to note, the progress which began when the U.S. entered Afghanistan after 9/11 is in danger. I'm appalled that the U...
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Nov.14.2008
A lovely writer named Dennis Overbye has an article in the New York Times today. It begins: "A little more of the universe has been pried out of the shadows."
Isn't that a beautiful opening for a science article? That, and this amazing photograph, sucked me right in. The article goes...
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Nov.12.2008
SF Signal has an interesting post that went live today. They asked a number of authors and editors to list books they would re-read, and the choices are everything from One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Princess Bride, with lots of great science fiction and fantasy novels in between. It's...
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Nov.07.2008
Piper is prostrate with shame that Barney, the First Dog, bit a Reuters reporter's finger yesterday. Piper wants everyone to know that Barney does not speak for all Scotties. Piper is a committed liberal Scottish Terrier.
Also, the Reuters reporter failed to read the signs that Barney was in a...
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Nov.07.2008
This needs no explanation:
Open Letter to Barack Obama from Alice Walker
Nov. 5, 2008
Dear Brother Obama,
You have no idea, really, of how profound this moment is for us. Us being the black people of the Southern United States. You think you know, because you are thoughtful, and you have studied...
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Nov.04.2008
Left to my own devices, I would probably never watch anything on television but BBC mysteries and costume dramas--well, and Rachel Maddow's program on MSNBC. However, beloved husband and I find that when there's a show we can enjoy together, it's a companionable thing to do. (We couldn't be more...
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About Louise
Louise Marley is a former concert and opera singer who now writes fulltime. She is a two-time Endeavour Award winner, has had several ALA Best Books of the Year honors, and two Nebula nominations. Her bibliography includes science fiction, fantasy, and young...
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