I’m gearing up for San Diego Comic Con, which starts next week, the famed Nerd Prom. There’s so much to be excited for! A Firefly 10th Anniversary panel! A look at what’s ahead for the Mass Effect universe! A whole lot of Geek & Sundry funtimes! Not to mention awesome […]
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Earlier today on Twitter, I shared a blog post by Nathan Bransford about publishers and imprints. His main point? “Publishers are squandering their brands on imprints few people outside of Manhattan and Brooklyn have heard of.” I won’t recap his entire argument, and instead invite you to read his thoughts […]
I went to see “The Proposal” tonight with some girlfriends, fully prepared to be AMAZED by what Hollywood thinks a book editor does all day. There were, shall we say, some inaccuracies. Not the least of which was mistaking Massachusetts for Alaska, but that’s another issue all together. One of […]
Even tried to figure out just where in the big scheme of the publishing world Poppy fits in? Or how First Second relates to Square Fish, and who Schwartz, Wade, Balzer and Bray are? Well, though Rexroth has been asking me for a while to draw up a map to keep track of all the publishing world's imprints and how they relate to one another, I'm delighted to announce that I no longer have to!
There's been some really interesting comments on yesterday's post about Lev Grossman's article on Modern Book Publishing. I was particularly taken by Joe's comment. "The existence of a publishing hurdle will make the accomplishment of getting published a more meaningful one when it finally comes and, beyond that, will make it more likely that I will actually enjoy some success in connecting to readers, because it keeps me from inflicting my worst work on people." That's really close to what I was getting at!
There's an interesting piece in Time Magazine this week by Lev Grossman about modern book publishing, and how the way mainstream publishing does things now is a dying breed, and that change is-a-coming.
Wow -- what a crazy day in publishing. Others have already summed up better than I, but in brief, the day after Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's publisher abruptly quit (and the week after their strange announcement of an acquisitions freeze), GalleyCat reports "a lot" of other firings in house. But that's not all.