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This morning, GalleyCat will transition to a brand new WordPress platform. Our tech team will also unveil a simple and sleek redesign for the site. Check out eBookNewser to see how the blog will change, including: Facebook buttons, subject headings...
Writing Professor’s Email Generates 75,000 Hits on Gawker
Yesterday Gawker published the complete text of an email written by author and Columbia professor Janette Turner Hospital (pictured, via). They called it "the world's haughtiest email," sparking a debate about relations between MFA programs around the ...
Andrew Malkin Explores eBook Content at Zinio
Yesterday we launched a new video series with Movable Type Literary Group.
Entitled "The Book Futurists," the series will feature interviews with ten digital publishing pros. The first interview is embedded above, as Andrew Malkin explores eBoo...
Tea Party Coloring Book for Children
Really Big Coloring Books has published the most political children's book of the year--The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids!. Sample photos are included above.
The 32-page book retails for $3.59, introducing children to the growing political mo...
Preston Bailey Launches Four Websites for Four Books
Event designer and author Preston Bailey has launched four new sites to support his event planning books.
Bailey's four book titles are (with corresponding websites in parentheses): Design for Entertaining (Entertaining), Fantasy Weddings (Weddings...
Lauren Myracle Tops Most Frequently Challenged Book List
Lauren Myracle (pictured at an ALA advocacy rally) has been singled out as the chart-topper on 2009's top 10 most frequently challenged books. Her Internet Girls series have spawned a writer in many "un-fans" as she calls them. Myracle receives at leas...
Haruki Murakami Has 11/1 Odds to Win 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature
As literary types speculate about this year's nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature before the official announcement, UK gamblers are hard at work trying to predict a winner of the prestigious prize.
According to the betting site Ladbrokes, Swed...
Banned Books, Bank Books & Poetry Performance Get Booked
Banned Books Week has brought many literary events. Here is today's Booked feature.
The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe will host a Banned Books Week Party featuring Mike Edison, Harold Price Fahringer, Richard Nash, and live music today, September 29t...
The Nine Lives of Chloe King by Celia Thomson to Be Adapted into ABC Family TV Series
Today ABC approved a new show based on Celia Thomson's series, The Nine Lives of Chloe King. The YA book series already has a dedicated online following, including the fan-made video embedded above.
According to TV Guide, the show goes into prod...
Real Housewives of New Jersey Star Teresa Giudice Tweets Her Writing Process
One of the stars of Bravo's reality TV show, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, gave fans a peek at her creative in the tweet embedded above. Housewives star Teresa Giudice tweeted to her 118,215 Twitter followers yesterday: "Hi Tweets! Just back f...
