Blogged From at 23. Mar 2007 21:26 under publishing, books
You may have gathered by now that Windhaven Press will be producing Leaving Babylon, a gift-book-sized (small paperback) edition by ginmar in the next month and a half or so. We're rushing to do a super-short run of 100 signed limited edition books. It will be about 216-248pp (castoff TK) and have a lovely color cover from a series of photos from Iraq by ginmar herself. It's going to contain essays about Iraq, the war, being there, and possibly some other essays as well -- she's putting together the contents right now for editing.Instead of the usual publishing model, because we're trying to raise pretty much instant cashflow for ginmar, she's going to do the sales and distribution of the direct sales herself -- 100% of profit goes to her for this edition, f[...]
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Blogged From litlove at 23. Mar 2007 19:21 under Life events, Family, Books, Personal
I had intended to write a post on the student revolution of May ‘68 today, but that’s going to have to wait a week as I’m running out of time. Tomorrow we set off for a week’s holiday in Norfolk, and yes, I know that’s a rather windy, chilly place to be going in March, [...]
http://litlove.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/off-on-holiday/
Blogged From litlove at 22. Mar 2007 20:41 under Publishing, Thoughts, Writing, Books, Personal
A couple of weeks ago I received in the post a manuscript sent to me by my publishers to assess for possible future publication. This is what happens in the academic world. Once you have your own work accepted by a publisher, they will often then send you related manuscripts to read on which they [...]
http://litlove.wordpress.com/2007/03/22/sleeping-with-the-enemy/
Blogged From at 22. Mar 2007 14:36 under Religious Tat
Vanity presses will famously publish anything, and their latest offering is Dining by the Stars by Maija Dambis Collins. For each astrological sign, Collins interprets characteristics in five areas: personal habits; love and romance; the role in the family; circle of friends and colleagues; and seasonal celebrations. The chefs studied this information along with an established list of foods and condiments derived from ancient astrologers who analyzed specific influences for each zodiac sign. Original recipes were then created for each of the five areas listed above. The result: culturally diverse culinary masterpieces that are individually designed to appeal to specific astrological signs. She must've relied on the stars, rather than Google, when she ch[...]
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Blogged From Katie at 22. Mar 2007 00:00 under Thoughts, Books
One of my favorite new series is Babymouse by Jennifer L. Holm and Matthew Holm. It’s a graphic novel series about a young mouse who leads a life that is relatively similar to that of a normal elementary school child. What makes Babymouse particularly special as a character is her extraordinary imagination (and [...]
http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/03/21/imaginary-exploration-in-babymouse/
Blogged From barb howe at 21. Mar 2007 23:30 under Books and Movies
If you like Shirley Jackson and her grotesque images of humanity, if you're feeling cynical about human society, or just like twisted and stunted characters, check this out. Best known for the creepy short story The Lottery, her novel We...
http://barbhowe.typepad.com/lucky/2007/03/we_have_always_.html
Blogged From at 21. Mar 2007 17:02 under Object, Object, Object
BooksYour many, many reading suggestions for Violet and other teen-aged girls were wonderful and overwhelming. Both the birthday girl and her mother (who thanks you all, as do I) have read them.I took care to indicate when inscribing Violet's books that some of the content might be a little "mature" for her mother's comfort; this seems to have had the desired result on her level of interest in them.I needed something fun for bedtime reading, so I picked up the new Penguin edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead. They did it up right, translating the whole megillah into English for the first time and snagging the Dalai Lama to write the introduction. Pretty cover, too.It makes a nice counterpoint to the other thing on my nightstand–the latest volume of the [...]
http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/2007/03/lets-catch-up-on.html
Blogged From Katie at 21. Mar 2007 06:51 under Links, Books
I was very upset to read on A Fuse #8 Production that when Simon and Schuster publishes the book Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer this summer in paperback they are not only changing the cover, but also the title! I can sort of understand them changing the cover (although I really like the cover and [...]
http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/03/20/but-i-already-read-it/
Blogged From Blackmail at 20. Mar 2007 21:02 under Books, Reviews
Apart from the occasional laugh at corporate machinations, straw henchmen and those who pay for their services, Colson Whitehead’s universally acclaimed book Apex Hides the Hurt comes off as bland as the culture he indicts, and worse, lacks gristle to gnaw on. When Whitehead ostensibly takes on the Great American Cerberus, a three headed monster [...]
http://blackmailismylife.com/blog/?p=288
Blogged From litlove at 20. Mar 2007 19:34 under Theory, Thoughts, Literature, Books
When people first started thinking about how you could define something as ‘literary’, one of their initial propositions was that literature set out to thwart people’s expectations. Except that they called it ‘defamiliarisation’, or the way in which story telling, used innovatively, can make habitual experiences, objects and feelings seem new and surprising to us [...]
http://litlove.wordpress.com/2007/03/20/narrative-expectations/