To answer your first question: No, I wasn’t the one to attempt stealing his glasses.
To answer your second question: Yes, I wish I had attempted to when I met him.
Read more about the stolen glasses saga here:
Poor J-Franz. He’s having a pretty rough 2010!!
Yesterday Jonathan Franzen made an announcement to his readers at a publicity event in London’s Southbank. The critically acclaimed author, who was recently on the cover of Time magazine, regretted to inform his fans that HarperCollinsPublishers UK had printed an earlier version of the Freedom manuscript by mistake.
This affects stock in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Franzen’s US publisher, FSG, are the only ones to print the correct version of the text.
It is estimated that this (easy to make!) mistake will cost HarperCollinsPublishers dearly.
Read more here:
Stephen King: Just Another Delivery System
Jonathan Franzen signing copies of Freedom after a reading in Powell’s Books, Portland.
Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon.
— from Life Sentences by Laura Lippman
Apple Removes Erotica from iBook Charts…
Devoed.
A very clever Publisher sent me the links to the following websites to help speed up some reading I had to do:
Basically, all you need to do is copy and paste text into either the spreeder or zapreader program, choose a word per minute speed, then sit back and read like a speed demon.
Both programs are very easy to use, and make trawling through submissions much less painful. However, I do prefer the spreeder application, mainly because I find the font easier to read. But do try both out!
In 1966 The Beatles wrote a song about wanting to be a paperback writer.
After managing a slush pile for almost nine months, this song has really started to resonate with me.
“If you really like it you can have the rights,
It could make a million for you overnight.
If you must return it, you can send it here
But I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.”
It does make me wonder though… If The Beatles were alive today would they write about wanting to be a paperback writer? Or would they write about wanting to be a self-published author with a distribution deal with Amazon? How times change.
Ebookant.com is a new Australian-based website that offers consumers price comparisons on over 270,000 ebook titles (and 60,000 e-magazines, 5000 etextbooks and 50,000 e-chapters).
Dorito’s viral marketing anyone? The Dorito’s iPad? No, it’s Spice 2.0.
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