5 questions for Laura Vile about All That Matters [INTERVIEW]
Are you a bit of a know-it-all? Always impressing people with your expert opinions? Have no fear if your knowledge isn’t quite up to scratch…
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Did you hear JK Rowling has a book out today? No, really!
In news that has gone so far from the definition of ‘news’ that it has circled back round upon itself to become newsworthy again, today…
Kevin Costner lands book deal, inevitable film
In a piece of news that we somehow missed in the whirlwind of prescient cats and Philip Roth-baiting that has been the past fortnight, none…
A Publisher’s Most Valuable Property: Their Website
The internet has changed a lot in the last ten years. Well, even in the last two. Maybe even in the last week. Ok, so…
Stephen King to publish Shining sequel featuring ‘prescient cat’
As has been promised/threatened for some time now, the distressingly prolific Stephen King has made official his plans to release Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his…
4 questions for Caroline Crofts, UK Rights Manager for HarperCollins [INTERVIEW]
With Amazon announcing in early September that they were looking at novel serialisation, we got to wondering what goes into getting the content to you,…
Cory Doctorow & Charlie Stross release novel for free download
As he has in the past, Boing Boing co-editor Cory Doctorow yesterday posted his new novel – co-written with British sci-fi author Charlie Stross –…
Why I love the Man Booker Prize (and you should, too)
I try not to read the comments sections of a lot of websites because generally they are filled with postulating jerks who have glanced at…
Harper Voyager looking for un-agented submissions
HarperCollins’ sci-fi, horror and otherwise otherworldly imprint Harper Voyager has announced that, for the first time in over a decade, it will be accepting un-agented…
Wikipedia: Philip Roth ‘not credible source’ on Philip Roth
In a case we might call The Plot Against the Literati, were we at the intersection where readers familiar with the work of Philip Roth…
Kobos and Kindles: New Additions and Winning Combinations
Last week saw the release of a new Kobo range, and (not to be outdone) the yearly release of the new Kindle line. Despite Bezos’…
Something something Fifty Shades, something something Bret Easton Ellis
In the latest in a series of slow news day-saving incidents that we might as well group together under the headline ‘Chris has had a…
‘Sock puppets!’
Late on Friday night, a tweet from the writer Alan Gillespie appeared on my feed that read ‘Read @jeremyduns‘ timeline for a literary Hollyoaks episode.…
The first ELT Agent [INTERVIEW]
For anyone who has been reading my previous BookMachine posts you will notice that I’ve been writing a lot about people in the ELT industry.…
Amazon’s Press Conference: What Can We Expect?
Sales figures. A detailed breakdown of sales of devices by country, including market share, plus a deep look into the data they hold for each…
