Self-Published Nutritionist Inks 7-Figure Book Deal
British nutritionist Venice A. Fulton has scored a 7-figure book deal with Grand Central Publishing for his diet book Six Weeks to OMG. The book first hit the scene as a self-published work.
In the book, Fulton shares his diet tricks, which he has use...
Is The Zodiac Killer Still Alive? New Book Says So.
The Zodiac killer, a serial killer who claimed in letters to newspapers to have murdered dozens of people back in the 1970s, has been the subject of a number of books and films.
The latest is a book called The Zodiac Killer Cover-Up written by a former...
Learning from John Steinbeck Letters
Novelist Thomas Steinbeck received a mountain of letters from his father, John Steinbeck. Over at The Hairpin, the son of the late Nobel Prize winning author talked about what he learned from these letters.
Follow this link to read a letter Steinbeck w...
Rare Antoine de Saint-Exupery Pages Contain Scene Cut from ‘The Little Prince’
Artcurial will auction off two rare handwritten pages from an early draft of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The manuscript includes the story of an earthling obsessed with a crossword puzzle, a strange tale ultimately cut from the final...
John Updike’s Childhood Home to Be Museum
The John Updike Society has finalized a contract to purchase John Updike‘s home for $200,000.
Located in the Pennsylvania town of Shillington, Updike lived in the home for thirteen years as a child. John Updike Society president James Plath annou...
New Book Claims Clinton Called Obama ‘Amateur’
Journalist Edward Klein has a new unauthorized book out about president Barack Obama in which he claims that former president Bill Clinton called Obama an ‘amateur.’
The book, which is called Amateur, claims that Bill thinks so little of th...
Rick Riordan to Write Norse Myth-Inspired Series
Percy Jackson series author Rick Riordan plans to work on a new series inspired by Norse mythology, but his fans will have to wait for the series.
According to Courier Press, Riordan will be spending next year working exclusively on book four of The H...
Memoir Author Michele Rosenthal Launches Project Give Back
Author Michele Rosenthal recently published her memoir, Before the World Intruded: Conquering the Past and Creating the Future. The book recounts the twenty-four years she spent struggling with undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and her ...
Paulo Coelho Sells 99-cent eBooks
Bestselling novelist Paulo Coelho has convinced HarperCollins to sell many of his eBooks for 99-cents in the United States and Canada. The sale prices are now in effect at Amazon, iTunes and Barnes & Noble.
The author could not predict how long the...
Writers Beware of the ‘Second Option’ Clause
Nothing makes an author happier than scoring a book deal. But before you sign on the dotted line, it’s important to read through a book contract with a fine-toothed comb.
While it’s a good idea to shell out some money to have a lawyer read ...
Stephen King to Mitt Romney: ‘you couldn’t have made it in America without America’
In an expletive filled essay at The Daily Beast, novelist Stephen King warned wealthy Americans to pay their “fair share” of taxes before civil unrest deepens in the United States.
Do you agree with King’s bombastic essay? His essay a...
Are American YA Covers Too Generic?
Blogger Tiana Smith wrote a post judging American book covers. After comparing the American covers of several popular YA books with their foreign editions, Smith concluded: “American versions are slightly more … generic than some of their ...
