Melville House offers rookie first-time kids author biggest deal ever
Melville House announced today that it has offered wannabe children’s book author Stephen Colbert its biggest deal ever for a first book. After hearing Colbert describe his proposed illustrated children’s book, I Am… 10 / Read more »
The true Bolaño Cormac McCarthy’s new screenplay Facts w/out Wikipedia The Renaissance of The Short Story? At least 40 new indie bookstores opened in 2011 Re-framing the bookstore model Germany… Read more »
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Hey! Holiday readers – we sell eBooks on our site. Dozens of titles are available for lightning fast download. Just check out our eBooks page. Most of the titles on… Read more »
Hiding Shakespeare Books vs. Internet Shortlist for DSC prize Occupy London’s Library Shalom Auslander in your attic? Jagger’s reply to Keith Richards’ Life? Joseph Heller Letters up for auction The… Read more »
Day in Review
Authors ranked by beard weight World Book Night 2012 Operation Warrior Library Michelle Obama to publish her first book Tolkien the artist Harper Collins buys New Market Press Small Demons… Read more »
Day in review
Happy birthday John LeCarre Lauren Myracle says she felt “gutted” Appalachian Prison Book Project seeks donations Cary Grant and … LSD? Indian lit focuses on native languages Actress sues Amazon DC… Read more »
Next month, as part of its Art of the Novella series, Melville House is publishing five classic novellas all with the same name: THE DUEL. Now all we need is…… 12 / Read more »
Two weeks ago, Stop Smiling Books and Melville House launched Dave Tompkins’ How to Wreck a Nice Beach at two New York bookstores: Brooklyn’s BookCourt and Soho’s McNally Jackson. The… Read more »
The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown and reps from his publisher Random House were in a federal courthouse in Manhattan yesterday denying charges that he had “lifted material for… Read more »
He’s not quite even a senator yet, but Illinois Senator-elect Barack Obama “has landed a three-book deal worth $1.9 million,” reports Nicole Ziegler Dizon in an Associated Press wire story.… Read more »