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Mike Shatzkin offers predictions for 2010 in the book world

I'm not smart enough to know if any of these predictions for the world of books in 2010 are likely or not but Mike Shatzkin at the Idea Logical blog sure offers some interesting thoughts. To read the entire piece (and it's well worth reading) go here: http://www.idealog.com/blog/a-bakers-...



5. Big publishers start to match their offerings to their marketing capability. The rearrangement of the big publishers' IP portfolios will begin in 2010 as they emphasize what they ...

30 Eock

Our New Year's--we watched four episodes of 30 Rock tonight. We'd only seen one of them before. So many great lines. Alec Baldwin: "I haven't laughed that hard since I saw Ann Coulter's shoulders." But the best was Duffy, Liz Lemon's stupid faithless ex boyfriend. He's trying to get back with her so he when his pleading doesn't work he says: "I went on WebMD and diagnosed myself as a sex addict. It says I have to make amends for all the hurt I've caused. So here goes Liz: 'I'm sorry I used my...

I've never heard of Slamdance either but what the hell

The director of the short film has asked me to post this. One of the prizes they're offering to winners is that they don't ever have to have any indirect or direct contact with me. Now that's a prize worth having.



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Yes, he's still peddling his book

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From Gravetapping:

TICKET TO RIDE by Ed Gorman

The eighth, and reportedly last, Sam McCain novel opens in 1965 at a Vietnam peace rally in Black River Falls, Iowa. The rally is held in the local Presbyterian Church and after 90 minutes of the same arguments—being spoken by different people—McCain is ready to leave the rally for the comforts of a double feature at the drive-in. But then as the newest local superstar, a pretty boy named Harrison Doran, is speaking a man takes the stage and asks t...

No Ayn Rand; lotsa John D. MacDonald

I want to thank Brendan DuBois for sending me this insightful Boston Globe column about Ayn Rand vs. John D. MacDonald.

GARRY EMMONS

Corporate greed and disaster? Like pages from a crime novel
By Garry Emmons
December 15, 2009


DECADES LATER, the gig with the economy would end badly for the erstwhile saxophone player. But in the 1950s, jazz musician Alan Greenspan was just another cat under the spell of a dame, bewitched, bothered, and bewildered, in thrall to the novelist Ayn Rand and her torch so...

Free e Books--good thing or bad?

Ed here: I try to keep up on the ever evolving e-books story but I bring so little understanding to it I'm afraid to offer an opinion. So let me pose my misgivings here as a question. If Kindle keeps offering free books, and if Kindle customers keep insisting that $9.99 is too high a price for an e book, how will book publishers ever make serious money on line?

From Galleycat:

4 of the 100 Top Kindle Store Bestsellers Are Free
By Jason Boog on Dec 28, 2009 09:23 AM

By GalleyCat's count yesterda...

All That Fosse; Facebook

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While there are dozens of Broadway songs I like, watching the shows they come from is another matter. I've never gotten used to people suddenly breaking into song. It embarrasses me and/or looks pretty damned silly.

I mention this because way back in 1979 the woman I had a date with one Saturday night insisted that we see "All That Jazz," the essential Bob Fosse story as written and directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider. As far as I was concerned this would be people suddenly brea...

KILLER by Dave Zeltserman

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Before I say anything about Dave Zeltserman's new novel I have to note that a) Dave is a friend of mine b) the novel is dedicated to me and c) somebody not unlike me makes a brief appearance in the book.

Leonard March is a mob hit-man who turns state's witness to avoid a lifetime in prison. Despite giving evidence he serves fourteen years and emerges a much older man and not just physically. People familiar with his case are amazed that his former employers didn't manage to have him killed whi...

KILLER by Dave Zeltersman

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Before I say anything about Dave Zeltserman's new novel I have to note that a) Dave is a friend of mine b) the novel is dedicated to me and c) somebody not unlike me makes a brief appearance in the book.

Leonard March is a mob hit-man who turns state's witness to avoid a lifetime in prison. Despite giving evidence he serves fourteen years and emerges a much older man and not just physically. People familiar with his case are amazed that his former employers didn't manage to have him killed whi...

And to all a good night

I just want to thank everybody who's taken the time to read my blog this year. And to all of you who've written so many informative and entertaining responses. I hope this holiday season finds you and your loved ones well. Here's to another year of reading good books new and old. Happy holidays everybody!

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