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January 2012
24 January 2012
Best-sellers lists: How they work and who they (mostly) work for
"Every now and then, a publishing earthquake shakes things up. An author comes out of nowhere with a title that goes viral, riding best-seller lists like they were roller coasters.
Take Stieg Larsson's "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," for instance. On a single Sunday earlier this month, it was simultaneously in fifth place, seventh place, second place and first place on various best-seller lists in the New York Times. The widely popular crime thriller, adapted into movies for Swedish and American screens, has bounced up and down the Times' Book Review lists for 133 weeks.
Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times ranked the novel in the No. 2 spot on its paperback fiction list that Sunday.
How do books make it onto best-seller lists in the first place? The answers are elusive."
22 January 2012
The Novel Approach
"Stepping off the treadmill of the Twitterverse, DEBRA JOPSON learns from the masters how to tell a tale."
16 January 2012
What Editors Want 2012
"Twenty-three editors have kindly explained what they are looking for this year giving a fascinating insight into the commissioning mind."
Andrew Lownie - Literary Agency
13 January 2012
How Can Authors Get Their Books Into Bookstores?
"So how can authors get their books into the limited space? Who determines what books make it in? And what (if anything) can authors do to carve out a spot on a shelf?
I took my questions directly to Bill Shady, National Accounts Manager for Baker Publishing Group. (My publisher, Bethany House, is a division of Baker.) Bill leads sales efforts to key CBA accounts such as Family Christian Bookstores and LifeWay. Previously, he also sold books to stores like Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Borders, and a plethora of other accounts."
06 January 2012
Dave Eggers Publishes Shower Curtain
06 January 2012
Are you ashamed of skipping parts of books?
A quick skim through the reasons why it's not always a good idea to read every page.
06 January 2012
2012 List of Banished Words
"Amazing" tops the list.
Lake State Superior State University