RIASS stuff:
A guest post from Heather Tyler, who discovered a newfound appreciation for romance fiction after attending the RWA conference
Later today:'a review of'BZRKby Michael Grant
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Other bookish stuff:
Faber announces the winner of their Lord of the Flies cover design competition
What surprised me was the way the book challenged me to think. I didn't expect that of a romance novel, rather blindly in retrospect. A world devoid of animals? What does that even mean? How could they ' But where would- I just- Huh. I was reminded of first reading Pullman and encountering the Mulefa and their seed pod wheels, and how that made me think differently about evolution.
Lauren Kate and Moira Young on writing dystopian fiction:
Read the paper, watch the news, think about the things that concern you about the world we live in today and what your concerns are for the future. When you come upon something that grabs you, that enrages or obsesses you or makes you go ' what if? ' pick up that thread and follow it.
What does your conference bag say about you?
At TOC, the bags people carried didn't quite indicate their country of origin, as much as it did their likely status or place in the publishing pecking order. Loosely speaking, true techies ' most likely hailing from San Francisco ' were hauling'Rickshaw messengers; New Yorkers favored'Manhattan Portage'bags (for the blokes) and big pricey handbags (for the ladies).
Orion CEO Peter Roche on the future of publishing:
'Print is still the core of our business, but the ebook is here to stay.' We publish all our new books digitally and around 90% of our backlist.Who knows what the world will look like after the next two decades ' right now they are probably developing the kit to put words quite literally on to the palm of your hand so that you can read without a device.' But we need authors ' the future is in your words.'
Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms:
As has been publicly reported, Amazon.com is putting pressure on publishers and distributors to change their terms for electronic and print books to be more favorable toward Amazon. Our electronic book agreement recently came up for renewal, and Amazon took the opportunity to propose new terms for electronic and print purchases that would have substantially changed your revenue from the sale of both. It's obvious that publishers can't continue to agree to terms that increasingly reduce already narrow margins, says'IPG president Mark Suchomel.
Simon & Schuster make changes to royalty format:
Simon & Schuster has sent a letter to its authors touting some changes to the way it presents its royalty statement. The house claims the new format flows more logically while noting that of course, the method by which royalties are calculated has remained unchanged.
March is New Zealand Book Month
Ernest Hemingways childhood home is for sale
Are you game to eat like they do in Game of Thrones?
Hamish Blake interviews Zoe Foster about her book The Younger Man
An undergrad writer? Take a squiz at this prize offered by Monash Uni
Books!
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