Both Publishers Weekly and Publishers Marketplace reported that Food Network’s Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto signed a book deal with DK Publishing. The book is currently scheduled for a September 2007 release. Undoubtedly, the editors will surprise Morimoto with the special theme subject, he’ll have an hour to write the manuscript, and he’ll stuff pages into a [...]
Archive | May, 2006
More BEA Adventures Tomorrow
Posted on 23 May 2006.
Check back tomorrow for my tales of celebrity signings, warnings from security, publisher parties, and an encounter at the L. Ron Hubbard booth.
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BEA: You’re Gonna Make Yourself Sick!
Posted on 23 May 2006.
Books, books, books, books, books. Books! As far as the eye can see. I step off the escalator into an orgy of books. A Caligula-number of books. Just an absolute shitload of books, free!, waiting to be devoured. Gene Simmons and Wilt Chamberlin combined didn’t have as many groupies as I, a literary nobody, now have books! Remember Scrooge [...]
BEA: The Field Before Us
Posted on 23 May 2006.
I’m sure there is a scene in an old Conan story, maybe a Doc Savage pulp novel, about an underground city. That’s an appropriate image for walking to the edge and looking over at the BEA convention floor. More than 2,000 exhibits displaying publishing professionals from 93 countries. For the book lover, gazing upon these thousands of [...]
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BEA: The Three Levels of Confusion
Posted on 23 May 2006.
I’m not the best with following directions. I blame this on my rural upbringing where road names where largely ignored. For us, it was “Go ’til you see a red barn on the left, drive until you cross the crick, and hang a right. If you see the old Abney place with the water [...]
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BEA: Welcome to DC
Posted on 23 May 2006.
The cop pulls behind our rental car and hits the lights. It’s Friday afternoon, we’re barely moving on a crowded Connecticut Avenue, and Five-Oh decides to pull us over. Ten minutes inside DC, I haven’t even checked into my hotel yet, much less hit BEA and cops are involved. This isn’t a good omen. He [...]
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Magazine Goodness
Posted on 23 May 2006.
A couple of magazine articles well worth your time… a shockingly sincere essay from a comedian in Men’s Health and a perfectly Saunders-esque description of a quest to Nepal in GQ. I haven’t seen Craig Ferguson on CBS’ The Late Late Show and I previously didn’t know a damned thing about him. But if he [...]
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Email Problem Corrected
Posted on 22 May 2006.
I had a temporary blip with my email system this morning. The server was rejecting emails until early afternoon. So if you’re one of the super-cool folks I met at BEA, or a publisher who wants to give me $500,000 for the first four chapters of my unfinished teen novel, I might have missed your message. Please email me [...]
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Back Home from BEA
Posted on 22 May 2006.
Whew. It was a long, exhausting, but immensely fun weekend at Book Expo America. Sorry for the lack of posts. Internet access was in short supply and time was even more lacking. Every minute seemed to be filled with someone to talk to or something to see. Top it off with a delayed flight and I [...]
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Interview: Jeremie Ruby-Strauss
Posted on 17 May 2006.
Many editors are coy when asked about the type of books they want. They pay lip service to the ideal of furthering great literature and artistic experimentation and then they publish a Nicole Ritchie novel. However, Jeremie Ruby-Strauss is straight-forward, direct, and to the point. When an interviewer once asked him what kind of books he was [...]
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The Munchkin Skag Problem
Posted on 17 May 2006.
Irvine Welsh’s play about the “the private lives of the Munchkin characters from The Wizard of Oz“ is set to debut in Dublin. The Scotsman is reporting that “in one of the classic film’s background scenes, a Munchkin can reportedly be seen hanging from a tree, having apparently committed suicide. Welsh uses that as the starting [...]
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A Mom’s Guide To Turning Out
Posted on 16 May 2006.
Gawker comments on a Star magazine interview with Dina Lohan. It seems the mother of Lindsay Lohan, that teen actress with the 45-year-chain-smokers rasp, is writing a book to help parents “to manage and how this all happened. It’s about avoiding pitfalls,” with showbiz kids. The elder Lohan tells the Star that “I get so much [...]
Review: Going Postal
Posted on 16 May 2006.
My review of Mark Ames’ Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion From Reagan’s Workplaces to Clinton’s Columbine and Beyond is available on PopMatters today. Ames examines workplace and school massacres by looking at the environments that spawned the tragedies. This is a grueling book to read. For example, there is a section on CEO greed that will [...]
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The Value of Indepent Bookstores
Posted on 16 May 2006.
From the always-informative Bookslut, I learned about Tyler Cowan’s article on Slate about the value of independent bookstores. In What Are Independent Bookstores Really Good For? Not Much, Cowan argues that “Our attachment to independent bookshops is, in part, affectation—a self-conscious desire to belong a particular community (or to seem to). Patronizing indies helps us think [...]
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