The two “serial thrillers” offered in Watchlist are the product of the collaborative effort of 22 of the finest thriller writers in the world. Among the authors participating in the project are: Linda Barnes, Lee Child, Lisa Scottoline, Erica Spindler, David Hewson and Jeffrey Deaver (who created the basic characters and wrote the first and last chapters of the two novels). The Chopin Manuscri...

The marketplace is changing rapidly not only for book publishing companies but for the authors published by them. We had the opportunity to interview the founder of Artists and Artisans, Adam Chromy about this, PleaseFireMe.com, his love for peanut butter and so much more: continued... New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

The set of questions for Weekly Geeks this week asks us to consider whether we are content to let books speak for themselves or whether we want a little (or a lot!) more information about and from the authors themselves. What better opportunity to lay bare my deep dark book blogger secret? So, what about you? •Do you seek out interviews with authors of books you've enjoyed? Why or why no...

Saturday 06/03/2010 Before I launch into my report of this year’s AyeWrite festival, there is one thing to note.  Yet again, I have found it impossible to get an in-focus shot of the authors.  There’s nothing wrong with my camera as you can see from the pictures it takes when there is no-one on the stage ….. yet put

A standing-room only crowd packed the Copper Tavern in Manhattan earlier this week for the first mediabistro.com Book Club. The four featured writers pictured above read excerpts from their books and offered one-on-one advice to aspiring authors in the audience. From left to right, the authors were: An Irreverent Curiosity author David Farely, Cemetery Road author Gar Anthony Haywood, Getting In a...

E.H On Books and More asks us this week to talk about the authors we love: Tell your readers what is it about “an” author that you are most passionate about, that have you coming back for more from them, following their every blog post – literally blackmailing people to read their books? Who are some of

I got to thinking recently about all the authors I typically recommend.  There are some heavy favorites, and not just by me, on my list, but I started wondering…am I missing someone who I’ve read and have simply forgotten to add?  I’ve read a lot of new authors since then and I seriously have this feeling that I’m missing some great novels. I’ll be honest, m...

A Trio of Zweig, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. While I’ve been on a blogging break during these past couple of weeks I’ve also taken the opportunity to get a bit ‘freestyle’ with my reading – dipping in and out of whatever bookish delights have taken my fancy. And one of the authors who has

Last month I took a class on Tweens through ALA, taught by Ed Sullivan One of the fun things about the class was that the teacher got many authors to talk about their work with the students. One of the authors we got to talk with is Kelly Milner Halls, so I read five of her books. Overall, what I really like about her work is that she picks topics that kids want to read about. She covers these top...

Struggles Over eBooks Continue Amazon and Macmillan seem to be coming to a grudging agreement after last week’s standoff. I think everyone was surprised to see Amazon use its muscle to pull all Macmillan content from their store… and cave in to Macmillan’s demands. The Authors Guild is still pursuing their lawsuit against Google for the use of scanned texts