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The Litblog Co-Op announced the winner of our Summer 2007 Read This! recommendation. This time, we’re focusing on Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe. “This book is hard to explain without sounding like a nut,” writes nominator Megan from Bookdwarf. “It’s wonderfully imaginative and Sharpe uses language to play with the future and the past in a way [...]

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As you know, I’m a huge advocate of learning as much about the publishing industry as possible. I believe that writers (or most of them, the ones who don’t possess innate incendiary talent that demands attention, and how many of those are there, really?) need to follow the publishing industry news, they need to know [...]

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My affinity for the work of Andrew Vachss is well known. So I’m glad to say that Vachss’s anti-hero Burke is back. I’m about halfway through Terminal, the new Burke novel due out on September 25 and it’s a rush of a read. Full of Vachss’s trademark characters and icepick wit. One of the interesting [...]

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  I’ve been drowning in work the last couple of weeks, but I believe I’ve pulled myself to safety. So hopefully we’ll be back to normal operations here around the Slushpile.net library. Hope you’ve been doing well.

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Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a book deal with Pan Macmillan for a work entitled Moments: The Way I Feel. The publisher stated that the book will contain stories, recollections, and 150 photographs. Ronaldo, who I believe I once dubbed “master of the pointless stepover,” fought tremendous animosity this past Premiere League season [...]

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I’m working on a project where I need to reach some rock guitar heroes. Some of these guys were staples of the eighties and are now not as well-known. Some remain rock stars on certain levels. I’m working through various personal websites, record companies, publicists, and other gatekeepers to track these guys down. But if [...]

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Here’s a great article on what you should know about working with a publicist to promote your book. Great inside details in this piece. [via Galley Cat.]

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I am officially declaring a temporary moratorium on “I read it for the articles” jokes for this post. It’s too easy and obvious. But I was thrilled to see Barry Hannah’s name on the front cover of the latest issue of Playboy. No, they’re not doing some kind of layout with writers standing around looking [...]

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Yesterday was the official release date of John Twelve Hawks’s new novel, The Dark River. I’m intrigued to see how this novel fares. Twelve Hawks’s first book, The Traveler, received a huge amount of pre-pub hype, debuted strong to largely good reviews, and then quickly ran out of steam. Or, at least according to some [...]

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The free copy of John Twelve Hawks’s The Dark River was claimed by a lucky reader in California. Thanks to everyone who emailed!

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The New York Times has an interesting article on the closing of the Heritage Book Shop in Los Angeles. Luckily, my favorite Hollywood rare bookshop, Mystery Pier Books, remains.

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> I have a free copy of John Twelve Hawk’s new novel, The Dark River: Book Two of the Fourth Realm, for anyone who wants it. This book is a follow-up to Twelve Hawk’s bestselling The Traveler. Publishers Weekly said that “a love story featuring Gabriel’s beautiful, deadly but conflicted Harlequin bodyguard, Maya, adds human [...]

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