Posted by: fshk on: July 13, 2009
Full disclosure: I’ve worked in the publishing industry for 7 years. I don’t make a very good industry insider, because I work mostly on textbooks and nonfiction (which the cool people aren’t really talking about) and these days I do more production editorial work than anything else, so I’m no longer even tangentially involved in [...]
Posted by: fshk on: April 12, 2009
If you haven’t already heard this, Amazon has stopped listing sales rankings for books with LGBT themes. The excuse they offer is that LGBT books have adult themes, and they are thus inappropriate for some search engines, but a bunch of bloggers have done some digging, and apparently Playboy and a whole lot of hetero [...]
Posted by: chocolatetort on: February 22, 2009
Via Jez (I’ve misplaced the link itself), The Independent reported recently on the boom in romance fiction and the ever-widening scope of what “romance fiction” entails. It’s a pretty lengthy piece, touching on a lot of aspects of the industry today. I found it especially interesting that, during WWII, one major British romance publisher escaped [...]
Posted by: fshk on: February 2, 2009
In honor of its 60th anniversary, Harlequin has 16 free ebooks available for download. Since all romance novels, good bad and otherwise, get me a little giddy, I just downloaded a bunch of them. It’s hard to say no to free books.
Posted by: fshk on: August 19, 2008
Spy novels featuring celebrity chefs?
