Yesterday’s winner: Angie. Yay!! Email me so I can get your book (or whatever) out to you.
Today’s pondering has two parts:
1. Those book references you see on blogs - the ones where it reads as if the blogger is in a group and the “job” is to post about a particular [...]

Here’s what happening through Friday: I’m going to ask a few promo/publishing questions that have been on my mind. If you comment, you could win a copy of Viva Las Bad Boys!. Yeah, I will give a copy away to a person chosen randomly from those who comment each day. Four [...]

Diana Peterfreund’s debut book Secret Society Girl comes out this week. In a pretty cool promo coup, she got a mention in the Washington Post Sunday Source Section. Specifically, her book was highlighted and her book cover included in Media Mix - a section that features new releases across several mediums. [...]

If you’re looking for some chick lit short stories and would like to support a good cause, you can do both at the same the time if you buy Girls Night Out. Here’s an article about it. If you don’t feel like following the link, here’s a review from Publishers Weekly about the [...]

Dropped in at Borders last evening. Believe it or not, I was not going on a hunt for Viva Las Bad Boys!. But, of course, since I was there I did check… yeah, not on the shelves yet. It’s allegedly shipping from B&N online, so that’s the place to track it down at [...]

Writers have a tendency to whine. Yeah, I do it too. It’s a human trait. One of the less attractive ones, sure. You know the drill. It goes like this: too many books under contract; too few books under contract; too much to do; too little to do; [...]

The nice people at Touchstone sent me a book - Point Clear by Jennifer Paddock. With the deadline over and my mind still mushy, I decided to give it a try. The cover is provocative. So is the copy:
Caroline Berry is lost at twenty-seven, living in New York — not as the [...]

According to Publishers Marketplace:
Barbara Walters’ memoir, resold to Knopf, for less money than Miramax had paid, though “in the same league” (the original figure was never established, and was guessed to range anywhere from $4 million to $6 million), by Mort Janklow at Janklow & Nesbit.
Yeah, you know, this is what I was offered for [...]

Two sales at Publishers Marketplace jumped out at me recently, but for very different reasons.
First, I read this and thought it sounded like the cutest thing ever.  Was actually one of the few times (okay, the only) I regretted not being thirteen:
Lisa Papademetriou’s THE WIZARD, THE WITCH AND TWO GIRLS FROM JERSEY, a humorous send up [...]

According to BookScan (via The Book Standard ): The top five Overall Bestsellers and the top five Fiction Bestsellers were identical last week. Apparently this (”this” meaning: the same books being in the same slots on both lists) hasn’t happened since the week of July 24, 2005. Maybe it’s a once-a-year thing. Here are the [...]