James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell

James Patterson Explains Why His Books Sell Like Crazy
Wall Street Journal (blog)
To date, the 65-year-old author has published 95 books—his most recent, “Guilty Wives,” hit shelves this week—and according to Nielsen ranks as the country's top-selling author. Those numbers have added up to big business: Mr. Patterson earns more ...

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76; known for his gritty tales of the US ...
Washington Post
Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Fla. He was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy, said his ex-wife, Sally Ellis Crews ...

Author Harry Crews dies in Florida at 76
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Florida (AP) — Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural South, died Wednesday in Gainesville, Florida. He was 76 and had suffered from neuropathy, ...

Free Books: Concord Free Press Creates New Nonprofit Publishing Model
Huffington Post
This book costs $0.00. "Round Mountain" is one of seven novels published so far by Concord Free Press, which, as its name implies, is a nonprofit that creates free printed books that can be requested via their site. The only condition is that the ...

Robert Giard / WW Norton & Company
San Francisco Chronicle
She taught at San Jose State, Stanford, Rutgers, Cornell and Brandeis, writing 30books - 19 in poetry and seven in prose. Her first book of poetry, published while she was still in college, was described by the late WH Auden as "neatly and modestly ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Fifty Shades of Grey: Who Should Play Anastasia Steele?
People Magazine
By Rennie Dyball Anastasia Steele, the heroine in Fifty Shades of Grey (aka the hottest bookaround) is the object of Christian Grey's affection ... and obsession. Now that the book will be made into a movie, the task of finding just the right actress ...

Book review "The Vanishers:" a troubled psychic probes the past
The Seattle Times
Julavits reads Wednesday at Seattle's University Book Store. By Agnes Torres Al-Shibibi Theauthor will read from and sign copies of "The Vanishers" at 7 pm Wednesday, University BookStore, 4326 University Way NE, Seattle; free (206-634-3400 or ...

Book review: 'Dropped Names,' by Frank Langella
Washington Post
“Dropped Names” is a melancholy book, though it could hardly escape being so, of course, since all of the people profiled in it — save one, the centenarian Bunny Mellon — are dead. This is not to say that the book lacks some raucous and entertaining ...

“The Red Book,” by Deborah Copaken Kogan
Washington Post (blog)
And yet I'm not sure it's a compliment to say that Deborah Copaken Kogan's novel “The RedBook” is a lot like one of those journalistic provocations. Kogan's premise is in equal measures clever and nauseating: Four roommates from Harvard University's ...

5 book-to-screen adaptations hoping for 'Hunger Games' level of success
Tulsa World
But remember: The makers of "The Golden Compass," "The Spiderwick Chronicles" and "Eragon" all thought they were turning popular young-adult booksinto hit film series, too. The story: Author Orson Scott Card's book is set in the earth's future, ...

Tulsa World

On the Rules of Literary Fiction for Men and Women
New York Times
If “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, had been written by a woman yet still had the same title and wedding ring on its cover, would it have received a great deal of serious literary attention? Or would this novel (which I loved) have been ...

'The Sugar Frosted Nutsack,' by Mark Leyner
New York Times
He is either a genius or a freak, and it may not matter which, because his booksare compulsively readable, created by a literary mind that seems to have no precedent. In his second novel, “Et Tu, Babe,” published in 1992 (following his 1990 debut, ...

New York Times

New Book Reignites the Fire in Relationships
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author Sue Harlow pens new collection of sensual stories, In the Mood BENICIA, Calif. (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 After a couple gets married, it is often easy to lose the spark, with added responsibilities getting in the way of sensuality, whether it be ...

BOOK REVIEW: 'The Hunt for KSM'
Washington Times
It is also a dramatic account of how the decade-long persistence and hard work of FBI and CIA investigators eventually succeeded in tracking and bringing KSM and his associates to justice, although, as described in great detail by the authors, ...

Washington Times

New Book Argues Against Islam in America
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author Kalai-o-Waha urges Americans to remove radicals from the United States. Honolulu, Hi (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 In his new book "On Guard, America: A Challenge To Islam - Forcing The Enemy Out From Within - Why The Muslim Brotherhood Will Fail" ...

Author Q&A with Rachel Maddow
Chicago Sun-Times
By MARY HOULIHAN March 29, 2012 8:40PM Rachel Maddow said she didn't expect political polar opposite Roger Ailes to endorse her book, but that both “enjoy confounding people's expectations.” By Rachel Maddow Rachel Maddow's new book Drift: The ...

Movie vs. Book: 'The Hunger Games'
Huffington Post
It seems all that anyone is talking about lately (and not ONLY in the book world) is the new 'Hunger Games' movie adaptation. Die-hard fans of Suzanne Collins's book were ridiculously excited, as well as non-fans who just wanted an easy way to see what ...

New Picture Book is a Colourful Addition to the Hullaballoo Adventures
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Author tells an engaging tale that will captivate young readers from the first page until the very last SURREY, Australia (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Lotsa is an unusual octopus. Unlike the regular octopus, which has eight legs, Lotsa has 18 multi-coloured ...

Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76
New York Times
Though his books captivated many reviewers, they were not the stuff of best-seller lists, in part because they bewildered some readers and repelled others. But they attracted a cadre of fans so fiercely devoted that the phrase “cult following” seems ...

The Nickel City packs a literary punch: Small presses hold court in western ...
New York Daily News (blog)
BY BRIAN MIHOK The Buffalo Small Press Book Fair came and went last Saturday: six brief hours of people showing off their small press wares, buying books and prints, and taking breaks to the curb for a couple tacos from one of the Nickel City's handful ...

'Game of Thrones' showrunners on making season 2, splitting Book 3 and their ...
Entertainment Weekly
Without revealing any major spoilers, find out which characters get more screen time this year, how the producers pulled off shooting dragons, battles, magic and direwolves, some of the changes from George RR Martin's “Song of Ice and Fire” book series ...

Author Shares the Story of Her Personal Journey
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
New book rivets readers with an inspiring and moving true story of one woman who fought life against all odds Malaga, Spain (PRWEB) March 30, 2012 Feminist and author Amparo Calvo Echeverría boldly unveils the story of her life with the release of her ...

A new season brings new baseball books
MLB.com
(AP) With Opening Day just around the corner, there is no better time to dig into a new batch of baseball books to help celebrate the new season. This spring provides a number of strong books for baseball fans. It is all about the traditional turning ...

MLB.com

What Movies, Shows or Books Do You Wish Had Sequels, Spinoffs or New Episodes?
New York Times (blog)
What movies, television shows or books have you loved so much that you wish they could continue in some way? How — whether through a sequel, spin-off, or missing chapter, episode or scene — would you bring the story or characters back?

E-books are the fastest-growing area of book sales, especially for youngsters
VentureBeat
Year-over-year, e-book sales have skyrocketed, especially for young adult and kids' titles. In January 2011, publishers sold 3.9 million children's and young adults e-books. One year later, that monthly sales figure is up to a whopping 22.6 million.

VentureBeat

Former Goldman Executive Is Said to Complete Book Deal
New York Times (blog)
By JULIE BOSMAN 10:20 am | Updated Greg Smith, the former Goldman Sachs executive whosebook proposal for a coming-of-age story about his 12 years at the firm set off a fierce bidding war among New York publishers, has made a deal with Grand Central ...

Book Review: Little Miss Merit Badge: Memoir by Ronda Beaman
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
ORG In her newest book, Little Miss Merit Badge, a memoir, author Ronda Beaman offers a humorous account of her life on one level while, on another level, sharing the angst and pain of growing up in a dysfunctional family ruled by a verbally abusive ...

COLUMN: Books and movies are great, but please keep them separate
Central Michigan Life
I am sensing a trend that movies will never be as good as their book counterparts. However, I don't understand why. I read and enjoyed all three “Hunger Games”books and the movie. Books and movies are completely different mediums and should be valued ...

Central Michigan Life

Harry Potter Hits the E-Book Market : CJR
I've never understood quite why, in a digital age that allows companies to sell directly to their customers, that book publishers, record labels, writers, and artists have allowed third parties like Amazon and Apple to seize outsize control of ... That's a big reason I, for one, still haven't bought an e-reader. ... In bringing these books to the digital marketplace, Pottermore, the business created to sell the ebooks, has forced Amazon into perhaps the biggest climbdown in its corporate history.
CJR

E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge | paidContent
By Laura Hazard Owen
E-Book Sales For Kids And Teens Surge. Comments (View); Text Size: A A; Email · Share. New monthly stats from the Association of American Publishers show strong growth for both print ande-books in January 2012. The AAP is beefing up ...
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Sony Picks Up Literary Adventure 'Royal Honour Society' (Exclusive ...
By Borys Kit
Think of it as a reverse League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the Alan Moore-written comic bookseries later turned into a 2003 Fox movie that featured the famous creations of many late-19th century authors. PHOTOS: 11 Biggest Book-to-Big ...
Hollywood Reporter

State of the Computer Book Market, part 1: Overall Market - O'Reilly ...
By Mike Hendrickson
Simply put, whenever you buy a technology-oriented book in the United States, there's a high probability it will get recorded in this data. There are now two major Retailers in Tech books and they are: Barnes & Noble, and Amazon and they ...
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis,...

Growth of e-books reduces overall value of book publishing market ...
By Chris Meadows
Bowker blames the decrease on the rise of e-books—even though people are buying more e-books, the price of the e-books tends to be lower (especially since so many of them are self-published). E-books made ... According to Bowker, that low average e-book price is due not least to purchases from self-publishers and new media companies, which the research company puts at “perhaps a fifth” of total e-book purchases by volume in 2011 although just 4% by value. Of course, this ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...

MJ Rosenberg: Why Peter Beinart's Book Is Driving the "Pro-Israel ...
By MJ Rosenberg
No matter that his love for Israel suffuses his entire book or that he is an observant Jew. For the "pro-Israel" right, Beinart is the enemy. Understanding the right's feelings about Beinart may be more the job of a psychologist than a pundit ...
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Warren Adler: What Is a Literary Novel?
By Warren Adler
Then there are those authors that were less popular in their time like the Brontës, Jane Austin, George Meredith and others who have climbed into the literary canon. Other books have been lifted from obscurity to world wide literary grandeur ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

A Book Update | Support Your Local Gunfighter
By Wyatt Earp
I know the original book post is still at the top of the page, but I wanted to post a quick update on how things are going. (If you're new, ... For those of you in Rio Linda, that's a total of 74 books in a little under two weeks. The numbers are good, ...
Support Your Local Gunfighter

Remembering The Lost Art Of Book Binding: Video |Gay News|Gay ...
By Andrew Belonsky
Remember books? They were those things people read before television and the internet and the iPad. Sometimes judges would throw them at criminals, and other times people would sit on them for an extra boost, or use them to prop...
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Vintage Book Clocks Transform Dusty Volumes Into Time-Keeping ...
By Matthew Rubino
Vintage Book Clocks transform dusty old tomes into fresh modern timepieces that give the agingbooks a new lease on life. The Venice, CA-based designers scour boutique bookstores and private collections for books and transform them into ...
INHABITAT

This Week In Photography Books – Javier Arcenillas
By Jonathan Blaustein
So when the book ended up in my pile, (by Javier Arcenillas, published by FotoEvidence in Brooklyn,) I was relieved and disturbed at the same time. While I would normally drop into a story about the dangers I faced traveling in Guatemala ...
A Photo Editor

Turn the page: the book on the making of Flipboard | The Verge
By Bryan Bishop
Craig Mod is a writer and designer who was one of the team members behind the original Flipboard app for the iPhone. In an essay on his blog, he takes a look at Flipboard for iPhone, a physical book...
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Jan Berenstain | Kidsreads
The Book Report Network · Our Other Sites · Bookreporter · 20SomethingReads · Teenreads · Kidsreads · ReadingGroupGuides · GraphicNovelReporter ...
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Q&A With Rose's Will Author, Denise DeSio
Shalom Life
Brooklyn-born author, Denise DeSio joined us for a Q&A to discuss her debut novel, Rose's Will. If you haven't had a chance to read the book, it is currently available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers (see links at the bottom ...

Shalom Life

'Rock Bottom' Author Michael Cooley
GoLocalProv
He's reading from Rock Bottom Friday night, March 30, at the Barnes and Noble in Middletown from 6-8pm. GoLocal caught up with Cooley to talk about his journey, and the chronicling of it. Can you briefly summarize the bold strokes of "Rock Bottom?

GoLocalProv

Famous author 'visits' school via Skype
Reminder Newspapers
By Colin Rajala - Staff Writer Prudence Crandall Elementary School students listen as famous author Andrew Clements talks to them via Skype. Photos by Colin Rajala. The Prudence Crandall Elementary School made Enfield public school system technological ...

Reminder Newspapers

Interview: Alma Katsu, author of 'The Taker'
USA TODAY
But now it's getting even more buzz, in part because Barnes & Noble recommended The Taker for readers who like the massively popular Fifty Shades of Grey. Alma's book is not considered erotica, though it does feature a dark sexual thread, ...

USA TODAY

Does Agency Pricing Lead to Higher eBook Prices?
Huffington Post (blog)
Retailers earn a commission of 30 percent of list price for acting as the seller's agent, and then the seller (in this case the author, publisher or distributor) earns 70 percent of the list price. When Apple launched its iBookstore in early 2010, ...

New York City Books Weekend March 30 – April 1
Examiner.com
... David Copperfield, and The Pickwick Papers in celebration of the author's 200th birthday. Friday, March 30, 7 pm Free. Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17th St. Teen authors event “Every You, Every Me” with David Levithan, Andrea Cremer, ...

A List of Promising First Novels for Spring/Summer
Library Journal
Dau's “sobering and accomplished” chronicle of an orphaned Muslim boy and an American soldier; selected for Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program as well as Powell's Indispensables. (LJ 1/12) DuBois, Jennifer. A Partial History of Lost ...

And then there was one: Chapter closes on last North Tahoe independent bookstore
Sierra Sun
Eight local writers from all shores of Lake Tahoe will read their work at Ledbetter Terrace, at Lake Tahoe Community College, on Friday, June 8, at 7 pm, on Tahoe's South Shore. Bona Fide Books also is accepting submissions from local writers for an ...

Spare Times for March 30-April 5
New York Times
31) This exhibition, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth (her actual birth date is Jan. 24), includes family photographs, books and ledgers documenting the book-borrowing habits of her father, George Frederic Jones.

A Conversation with Cheryl Strayed, Author of Wild ... - Barnes & Noble
Dear Reader, The Discover selection committee had nothing but accolades for Cheryl Strayed's captivating, audacious memoir of her solo hike on the 1100-mile ...
bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Discover...p/7371

BAREFOOT SEASON Q&A with author Susan Mallery - Barnes ...
BAREFOOT SEASON Q&A with author Susan Mallery .... I will always love writing romance, and BAREFOOT SEASON certainly includes romance, but with my ...
bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Romantic.../1315379

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