Names are important. Choose the wrong name for a book or series and you can kill its sales before it even reaches the market. This is why it is...
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Category: humor
Romance Author Arrested, Charged With Murdering Her Husband
It looks like someone may have put a little too much research into their next book. NBC reports that a Portland-area author has been arrested on suspicion that she...
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Shelf Awareness Launches B&N CEO Hunt
Barnes & Noble is currently looking for its fifty millionth CEO in the past five years, and the Shelf Awareness newsletter wants to help. They have proposed that, rather...
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The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered
Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so I will simply...
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“If Animals Could Talk” is the Next Great NSFW Kid’s Book
Remember a few year's back when Samuel L Jackson delighted parents everywhere with his narration of the NSFW humor book Go the F*** to Sleep? I think I just found...
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The Boston Typewriter Orchestra (video)
Reduced to a museum piece, the typewriter is now good for little more than confusing kids and giving curmudgeons a last bulwark against modernity. And it is also apparently...
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An Audio Tour of a New Indie Bookstore
CBC Radio has a satirical take on the growing trend of bookstores devoting less stock to books and replacing them with gewgaws: Local bookstore Epilogues sells everything you could...
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“The Last Jedi” Plot Summary Leaked Onlined
There has been much speculation about the next Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi, and the online frenzy only doubled when the Spanish, German, and other language versions of the posters...
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James Patterson Now Blurbs His Own Books
Ask any expert in book marketing about blurbs and they will tell you that you should get the biggest name you can find to recommend your books. Clearly James...
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Erotic Novelist Chuck Tingle Launches Breitbart Parody
The most recent news about the president-elect is so absurd that you might think political satire is dead, but Chuck Tingle doesn't think so. He's just launched a new...
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Here are Cats. With Books
What with everyone and their second cousin urging you to go out and perform a civic duty today, I thought my readers could do with some non-coverage of 2016's...
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Life Imitates Art – Truman Capote’s Ashes Sold for $44,000
Here's a story which should sound familiar to Star Trek fans. The Guardian reports that Truman Capote's mortal remains were sold at auction this week: The ashes of In Cold...
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Infographic: How to Publish Your Novel During a Skeleton Apocalypse
Tom Gauld has just published a handy little visual guide which explains how indie authors can get their book published during the skeleton apocalypse. Basicallt he recommends adapting to...
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The Perils of Taking Too Many Books on Your Holiday Trip, and Other 1% Problems
The Spectator has a solution for anyone who is haunted by the prospect of having too much to read while vacationing on the French Riviera: Holidays are a welcome...
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JA Konrath Releases Trio of Adult Coloring Books
Trad pub may have been the first to cash in on the recent adult coloring book craze, but now indie authors are joining the fun. Earlier this week author...
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