Tough sell for writers at NY literary "speed-dating"
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If you think speed-dating is tough, try selling your book to an editor in three minutes.
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An authorâs throwback view on the culture of casual sex among young women is under fire.
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Getting a book published isn't the rarefied literary feat it once was.
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Bloggers are scoring rich paydays by turning their online diaries into books, but some publishers say the craze could fizzle out with a glut of new titles destined to yield disappointing sales.
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Sex sells in the hospitality business. But before you hire a swarm of supermodels, beware the labor laws.
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Authors are in an annual competition for the eyes of the busy executive.
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The keys to snagging a guy, says author Giuliana DePandi: don't take his phone number, don't air the dirty laundry, and stay away from the L word
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As blogs have gained a wider audience some publishers have started paying attention to them as a source for new writing talent.
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Since that brief moment of rave reviews for "The Nanny Diaries," the darling authors of the book industry have been poked, probed and dissected by the unforgiving New York literary world.
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Changes at The Journal: movable deadlines and a new taste for models.
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Plot lines from recent books are written by a cast of hundreds, even thousands, of often anonymous contributors who congregate online to write, collaborate, read, analyze and edit each other's words in crowdsourced fiction and nonfiction.
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Spam makes sense. Sure, most of it reads like filthy gibberish. But the authors of this dreck are not semi-literate perverts. They're cool, rational business folk who have found a sleazy but effective way to make a buck.
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A cookbook author is angered that another writer is using his bookâs title, but learns thereâs not much he can do about it.
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A list inserted in a New Jersey magazine has drawn an ethnic panelÂs rebuke over how far lawyers can go to promote themselves.
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Pick a date, any date Packing as many buzzwords as possible into a single news announcement might prove you're "on message" but won't disguise the fact your strategy lags every major player in town.â¦
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A new and lucrative literary prize has just been started, with some unusual credentials for the winner: The book must be unpublished and the author must not have an agent.
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News sites may be tempted by an advertising scheme that lets them profit from ads linked to selected words within an article. But publishers who value a separation of editorial and advertising content should steer clear. By Adam L. Penenberg.