When Misha Defonseca admitted that her best-selling memoir about surviving the Holocaust with the help of wolves was a sham, her publisher thought she...
The New York Times | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
Susan Lehman, a communications executive, editor and lawyer, has been chosen to replace Jonathan Karp as publisher and editor in chief of Twelve, a ti...
Jennifer Havenner | Posted 05.25.2011
You don't have to trash your memoir material in order to make it into a book, but before you send out that query to publishers, just consider whether your life would be better as fiction.
Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011
When a publishing company's publicity department announces that a major media break has occurred, many an editor, publisher, and sales director will exhibit a unique two-stage reaction.
Timothy Hallinan | Posted 05.25.2011
My publisher has suggested two titles, "The Queen of Patpong" and "The Patpong Girl." I'm still sort of favoring "The Rocks." Please help us settle this by voting for the title you like best.
Baltimore Sun | Dave Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011
In the latest installment of our art series, here's a look New Jersey artisan Steven B. Levine, who crafts beautiful books from wood. They can have hi...
Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
Publisher HarperCollins has announced Sarah Palin's next venture in book makin.' According to them, she is working on a "celebration of American virtues and strengths." Good Lord, you've got to be kidding.
Carole Baron | Posted 05.25.2011
My only regret sometimes is that I read so many unpublished works that are submitted to me as an editor, that I don't have time to read all the published books that interest me. But I try, how I try...
mediabistro.com | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011
Soho Press co-founder and EIC Laura Hruska passed away this weekend at 74-years-old....
HarperStudio | Robert Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the e...
Wall Street Journal | Katherine Rosman | Posted 05.25.2011
In 1991, a book editor at Random House pulled from the heaps of unsolicited manuscripts a novel about a murder that roils a Baltimore suburb. Written ...
The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011