First, I read this sale in Publishers Marketplace:
FILM RIGHTS
Catherine Bourne’s NIGHTINGALES, called “a literary Jacqueline Susann” — like THE BEST OF EVERYTHING but set in the world of three sexy nurses working in a big city hospital today, optioned to Bradford Smith at the Christine Peters Company, in a good deal, by Barbara Zitwer Agency.
Second, [...]

Speaking of Harry Potter…
A general question: do the authors of young adult titles hate children?
JK Rowling is very big on continuing the “Harry might die in the last book” rumor with regard to poor Harry Potter. In a CNN interview about two months ago we got this:
In her Monday interview on [...]

Shelf Awareness provided some interesting book sale figures this week. Specifically, thanks to the lack of a hardcover Harry Potter offering this July as compared to July 2005, children’s/YA hardcover sales were down 82.9% this year. Anyone still think JK Rowling hasn’t made an impact on the literary world?
Sales of paperbacks rose. [...]

That’s B&N’s word. Don’t blame me.
Seems B&N has a new program. It works like this:
Unputdownable.
It’s not in every dictionary, but it’s a word booksellers use when they find an unusually exceptional book. Barnes & Noble Recommends is our way of sharing just such a book with you. From the thousands of titles published [...]

Saw this sale in PW and ended up on a stroll down memory lane:
FICTION: WOMEN’S/ROMANCE
Jennifer Oko’s debut GLOSS, a peek at the ratings-driven, celebrity-mad world of TV news, told through the eyes of a young morning show producer who finds herself in jail after working on what she thought was just a fluffy feature, to [...]

Brad Meltzer has a new book out called The Book of Fate. Kirkus Reviews says this: “Trying his hand at a star-spangled version of The Da Vinci Code, Meltzer produces his biggest, dumbest book.” In case you’re wondering, I read the entire review from Kirkus and it doesn’t get any nicer. The [...]

According the the Wall Street Journal this fall is the “Battle of the Big Book” with releases from John Grisham, Stephen King, John le Carré, Michael Crichton, Clive Cussler, Janet Evanovich, Charles Frazier, Margaret Atwood, Mitch Albom, Cormac McCarthy, Isabel Allende, Gore Vidal and others. Specifically, “There are 15 new titles on the way [...]

I warned you the Fall Book Previews were coming…
This time it’s USA Today’s turn. The paper offers 10 categories of books. None are romance or chick lit so don’t get excited. According to the USA Today editors, this is the Fall of the “big guns” in publishing. You’ll notice the phrase is [...]

That still is the question.
I’m chatting about this topic over at the Brava Authors Blog. Come over and say hello.

That is the question.
For the next two days I’ll be mulling this over while I blog at Access Romance and the new Brava Authors blog. Today is Access Romance. Come visit.