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The Literary Death Match reading series will shoot a television pilot on October 9 at the Largo at the Coronet in Los Angeles, creating two shows that the popular reading series can pitch to TV networks.
Would you watch the Literary Death Match on television? The organizers hope to raise $10,000 for the pilot on Kickstarter. In exchange for pledges, you can get tickets to the show and digital downloads of the TV pilots. Check it out:
The live show — a double-feature (two, full 40-minute shows) starring top literary, Hollywood and comedy talent — will be filmed by a top cinematographer, then edited into a pair of pitchable TV pilots. The pilot will star Michael C. Hall(Dexter; Six Feet Under), Susan Orlean (The Orchid Thief; Rin Tin Tin), the musician Moby (Play; Destroyed), comedian/author Jenny Slate (SNL; author of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On), host Todd Zuniga (LDM creator, and a LA Times “Face to Watch” for 2012), author Ben Loory (author of Stories for the Nighttime and Some for the Day) and many, many more TBA. (Via HuffPost Books)
Rather than following the traditional book tour circuit, author Emma Straub will visit twelve different locations around the world from her book of short stories–recording the journey at this blog.
Here’s more about the tour: “There are twelve stories in Other People We Married, and each story takes place in a different location. Every month for the next year, I will read a story in its location, or as close as I can get. This blog will follow my travels, my snacks, my impulse-buys, and more. For bonus points, send me a photo of OPWM in an exotic locale, and I will post it here, and send you a postcard in return.”
Last night, Jodi Picoult appeared at the Union Square Barnes & Noble in New York City to promote her new title, Sing You Home. She surprised her fans with an free concert.
The book features a 10-track CD by music teacher Ellen Wilber– Picoult wrote the lyrics for the album. Wilber performed three songs at the bookstore event: “Sing You Home,” “Faith,” and “Sammy’s Song.” The “Sing You Home” song is featured in the book trailer embedded above.
Picoult also shared the back story for this novel, revealing that her oldest son Kyle came out as a homosexual while she wrote the book. She explained: “I have wanted to write about gay rights for a long time … People who are gay want the same thing straight people want. They want to be happy … there’s not much mystery to it.”
As Borders closes 200 stores and indie bookstores struggle around the country, the number of places where authors can read are also diminishing. This week HTMLGIANT interviewedCassandra Troyan, a writer who decided to co-host the Ear Eater literary reading series in her own apartment.
It’s a great example of the do-it-yourself attitude that writers, readers, and publishers need to tap in the future. Follow this link for more information about the next reading, held tomorrow night (February 26) in Chicago.
Here’s more from HTMLGIANT interview: “The intimacy makes you responsible in a different way too. Even if you just come to listen it is never passively. Everyone is an active participant just by the fact of their being there. Plus, what is better than live, personal entertainment? Hearing poetry in someone’s living room, you can’t help but feel that it’s actually for you. Or that the pleasure of reading or being read to is so much a part of that.”
Today we joined a small group of industry leaders and journalists at the Future of Book Publishing Roundtable at the New York Public Library. The guest list ranged from publishing executives to bookstore professionals to self-publishing experts to authors.
Hosted by Chris Verlander, Kodak’s director of book segment marketing (pictured), the panel discussion was moderated by Jim Milliot, the editorial director at Publisher’s Weekly. Here are some highlights from the wide-ranging discussion.
Liz Scheier, the editorial director of digital content at Barnes & Noble, talked about success stories with eBook bundles. She said one unnamed publisher saw a massive increase in an author’s sales when they gave away the first book of a series for free. She also suggested publishers try “lifestyle bundles,” selling related eBooks together (like a pregnancy guide and a parenting handbook).
On Wednesday, the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series celebrated its 2-year anniversary of being held at the New York City venue, Joe’s Pub. After reading a short story, author A.M. Homes (pictured) conducted a 5-minute round of speed-dating with some audience members.
Four potential dates volunteered; two men and two women were asked a series of funny questions to determine compatibility. The audience voted by cheering on who they felt should go on a coffee date with Homes. The winner (pictured), was asked whether or not she would make a good stalker. She answered “yes.”
At Happy Ending events, authors are required to do two things. First, they must give a 10-minute reading. Then they must perform a risk on stage–hence Homes’ choice to speed-date.
Author Yann Martel has a straightforward method for choosing selections for public readings: “it has to work orally.” In an interview with the National Post, the novelist shared author reading advice.
Martel explained: “In other words, people have to be able to get it hearing it and hearing it only once. Description isn’t usually a good choice. Dialogue or a scene with action works best.”
In 2002, Martel won the Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi. The novel will be adapted into a 3-D film by Oscar-winning director, Ang Lee. Lee has cast 17-year-old Suraj Sharma as lead protagonist, Pi Patel.
One author turned his book tour into an endurance test, taking a "zero emissions" bike tour down the West Coast to support his title--securing sponsorship from Flip Video, Cannondale Bikes, and other companies.
Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was novelist James Kaelan, explaining how he built his book tour for his debut novel, We're Getting On.
Press play below to listen.
Here's an excerpt from the interview: "I had the naive confidence that if the idea was good enough, we could pitch it to the right people and they would support it. I ended up being at least somewhat correct. Cannondale jumped right on it. [My publicist] Jessi Hector from Goldest Egg pitched them and they were like, 'Oh yeah, that's a great idea' and set up a meeting and gave us bikes ... You should know InDesign and be able to put together a good pitch deck. More important than the actual aesthetics of the presentation is just have the idea. I talk a lot about adding narrative to narrative--the story that sells your story."
The most epic of parking garages is located in the downtown Kansas City area. "The Community Bookshelf" features giant-sized spines of several great books including Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Plato's Republic, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and E.B. White's Charlotte's Web.
According to the official website: "It runs along the south wall of the Central Library's parking garage on 10th Street between Wyandotte Street and Baltimore Avenue. The book spines, which measure approximately 25 feet by 9 feet, are made of signboard mylar. The shelf showcases 22 titles reflecting a wide variety of reading interests as suggested by Kansas City readers and then selected by The Kansas City Public Library Board of Trustees."
Answer this: If you had to pick an epic book worthy of a giant manifestation, which one would it be? For this GalleyCat correspondent it would be Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie because it made me cry giant tears.
While building her book tour, one writer decided to add hotel stops to the list of bookstores and book clubs she would visit--complete with hotel-themed promotions.
Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was Alix Strauss, author of the novel, Based Upon Availability. She shared tips for connecting with book clubs and explained why she targeted hotels for her book tour.
Strauss explained: "[My] outreach was something that matched the book ... For Based Upon Availability (which is about eight women who pass through the doors of the Four Seasons hotel) my thinking was--let's reach out to the hotels. It's a great way for me to promote this novel in a venue that matches the theme."
From September 7, 2010 until October 6, 2010, JetBlue is offering a special All You Can Jet Pass--perhaps the perfect time to launch a book tour?
The airline is offering two passes: a $699 pass for 30 days of unlimited travel seven days a week and a $499 pass for 30 days of unlimited travel except for Fridays and Sundays. Here's more from the post: "Use your AYCJ Pass for business, for pleasure, to visit your favorite cities or to meet with a client. You might as well just do it all. With more than 60 cities to choose from ... it's a deal you can't pass up."
If you do end up using JetBlue to mount an impromptu book tour, email GalleyCat. We'd love to hear your story.
Over at the New Yorker, Book Bench has been collecting 2010 commencement speeches delivered by novelists. They link to the complete speeches, but choose the juiciest quotes in specific categories like "Why Writing Is Like Life" and "Requisite Platitude."
Read the whole post here, but here is a bit of gloomy advice from Jay McInerney: "the last four years might well be, for some time to come, the high-water mark in your early life."
And here is a moment of "Humility/Coy Self-Promotion" from the great Margaret Atwood : "For who but a warty person--or, to put it in more romantic terms, one who has visited the shadow side--would have written two fun-filled, joke-packed novels about the almost total annihilation of the human race? I didn't get any literary awards for those."
(In lieu of an author photo, we've included a video of Atwood's role in Score: A Hockey Musical)
Last weekend, this GalleyCat editor joined radio host Kari Moran once again for her BookRadio Show. Tune in every Sunday at 3 pm PST for our "All About E" segment.
While the show airs on Los Angeles CBS-owned stations KFWB NEWS TALK 980, you can listen to the whole show online. Among the many topics discussed during the hour-long broadcast, we focused on Open Road Media's work with the digital backlist of novelist William Styron and the future of digital rights. Follow this link to listen.
Last week's episode featured Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation by Mitch Horowitz and The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood, and Side By Side by Dr. Charles Sophy.
One afternoon after a botched bombing attempt in Times Square, Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie--two writers who have served as lightening rods for intellectual controversy and extremist anger--concluded the PEN World Voices Festival with a conversation about tyranny's effect on writers.
PEN filmed the event, but you can get a sneak peek at the proceedings in the GalleyCat video embedded above. Hitchens opened the annual Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture by urging Americans not to be stalled by terrorist threats: "Somebody told me this evening that perhaps attendance was down at this event because of an attempted atrocity in Times Square. If that was true, I would both be depressed and I would take it as an opportunity to align what I want to talk about...the contagion of fear."
The two writers discussed the impact of the Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa--a religious death sentence issued against the novelist in 1989. During a conversation with Hitchens after the lecture, Rushdie reminded the audience that he was still alive while Khomeini had died. "Don't mess with novelists!" laughed Rushdie.
Why read about the future of book coverage when you can talk about it in real life? Tomorrow, we'll join some of publishing's brightest minds in a panel discussion--trying to figure out how to improve our literary reporting at GalleyCat Reviews.
On Thursday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in the Melville House Bookstore this GalleyCat editor will join a panel of journalists and reviewers to discuss "the future of book reportage." The panel includes: Laura Miller (Salon.com), Michael Miller (Time Out New York), Craig Morgan Teicher (eBookNewser), and Sara Nelson (O, the Oprah magazine). Stop by if you can make it and share your thoughts about the future.
Here's more from the site: "With both the book industry and the journalism industry in historic tumult, whither literary journalism? Where will people read about books and authors and publishers in the future? Will reviews remain important? Will blogs play a more or less important role? Will reportage of industry trends and business developments improve or worsen? What kind of journalism will impact how people hear about books, and where they buy them?"
After a week of reading books and scribbling in his notebook on gorgeous Mexican beaches, Jason Boog has returned to GalleyCat headquarters.
As we return to our normal posting schedule this week, you can email Jason your publishing news. If we missed your email or call, feel free to contact us again as we sort through last week's flood of correspondence. We also wanted to send a special thanks to correspondent Mark Byrne, eBookNewser editor Craig Morgan Teicher, and correspondent Jeff Rivera for working overtime last week.
As conservative political strategist Karl Rove travels to promote his memoir, activists at Code Pink are urging others to disrupt his readings--a recent protest was captured in the video embedded above.
Rove is touring with his 608-page tome entitled Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. MobyLives has a dispatch describing a recent protest at a Beverly Hills reading--one of the more dramatic confrontations we've seen in a book tour.
The Code Pink YouTube page encourages others to join them: "We invite you to join in as he continues with his book tour. Check [here] to see when he will be near you and get helpful citizen arrest tips from CODEPINK here."
Author Seth Godin is now accepting applications for a free intensive five-day" program in New York City--a "leveraged-nano-MBA" where a select group can study and work alongside Godin.
If you are interested in participating, you can fill out the application here. The application deadline is March 31. We are very interested to see how this promotional experiment turns out--the lecture tour crossed with a business school workshop.
Here's more from the post: "That's what this leveraged program is about. Find extraordinary people working in important organizations and give them insight and confidence to bring more leverage to their work, to allow them to use their jobs as a platform for making a difference. A difference at work, a difference to your co-workers and a difference to everyone who is touched by you."
UPDATE: Godin added this commentary: "Thanks for the link, but I'm afraid you've come to the wrong conclusion. This isn't promotional at all (5 days in my office with 11 people isn't going to sell many books). This is something I'm doing because it's my passion, not because I'm itching to sell a few books."
In a twist of fate that makes this GalleyCat editor wonder what the snow gods have against literary criticism, the Melville House Bookstore panel discussion on "the future of book reportage" has been postponed by blizzard-like conditions--for the second time in a row!
Never fear, the event will be rescheduled, and we'll join some of publishing's brightest minds--trying to figure out how to improve our literary coverage at GalleyCat Reviews. The panel will include: Laura Miller (Salon.com), Michael Miller (Time Out New York), Craig Morgan Teicher (eBookNewser), and Sara Nelson (O, the Oprah magazine).
Here's more from the site: "With both the book industry and the journalism industry in historic tumult, whither literary journalism? Where will people read about books and authors and publishers in the future? Will reviews remain important? Will blogs play a more or less important role? Will reportage of industry trends and business developments improve or worsen? What kind of journalism will impact how people hear about books, and where they buy them?"
This GalleyCat editor had been watching weather reports with great trepidation all week. We are sad to announce that the Future of Book Reportage panel discussion scheduled for tonight at 7 p.m. in the Melville House Bookstore has been postponed.
The new date will be announced soon. At the panel, this GalleyCat editor will join journalists and reviewers to discuss "the future of book reportage." The panel includes: Laura Miller (Salon.com), Michael Miller (Time Out New York), Craig Morgan Teicher (eBookNewser), and John Mutter (Shelf Awareness)
Here's more from the site: "With both the book industry and the journalism industry in historic tumult, whither literary journalism? Where will people read about books and authors and publishers in the future? Will reviews remain important? Will blogs play a more or less important role? Will reportage of industry trends and business developments improve or worsen? What kind of journalism will impact how people hear about books, and where they buy them?"
Start the new year right--by finishing your nonfiction book proposal. Throughout the month of December, mediabistro.com is offering daily deals on a slew of its courses that begin in January. Today's offer may interest a few GalleyCat readers.
Here's more about the offer: "Draft your book with help from an instructor who has overseen the development of nonfiction titles of all kinds, including how-to sports, popular culture, history, memoir, and biography. Sign up now and save $100 with promo code DAILY1203. Course starts Jan. 13."
Saturday, Oct. 24, celebrities, screenwriters, actors, and writers mounted the first-ever Hollywood Disabilities Forum--an event for entertainment industry professionals to "explore opportunities and challenges of people with disabilities in entertainment." Comedy writers (and actors) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant contributed that mildly controversial video to support the cause.
The all-day event was held at UCLA's Melnitz Hall. GalleyCat caught up with Allen Rucker--the Writers with Disabilities chair for the Writers Guild of America, West and a critically-acclaimed author--to find out more about the event.
He explained: "The event was packed. Two morning workshops for aspiring actors and writers with disabilities had to turn people away. The afternoon keynote by 'Something About Mary' director Peter Farrelly was an hysterical primer on how things get done in Hollywood. After that, the panel of Farrelly, David Milch ("Deadwood" creator), Vince Gilligan ("Breaking Bad" creator), Daryl Mitchell (star of the new Fox series, "Brothers,"--the first sitcom ever to star in a man using a wheelchair), and others."
Rucker concluded by laying out the day's most controversial writing topic: "They discussed the creative inclusion of characters with disabilities into their work and argued, sometimes vehemently, over the issue of whether only actors with disabilities have the right to play characters with disabilities."
Frankly, we wish all public readings by authors started with this warning, or one rather like it.
That's Jim Dale, who you may recognize as the narrator of the seven Harry Potter audiobooks—last Tuesday morning, he came to the Children's Center of the New York Public Library to read scenes from Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, an authorized sequel to the original Winnie-the-Pooh stories by A.A. Milne written by David Benedictus with illustrations by Mark Burgess in the style of Ernest K. Shepard.
In addition to a book launch (which brought several executives from Penguin Young Readers Group, the event was also an unveiling of a new set of murals depicting the characters, decorating an alcove in which the original stuffed animals owned by Christopher Robin Milne are kept in glass cases.
We've got a lot more video from the event, by the way—Dale reads from two excerpts of the new book, and answers a question about finding the new voice of Pooh.
"As a self-proclaimed media junkie, I find what's going on in the media terribly interesting. I liken it to the introduction of mass market paperbacks. At the time, everyone said it was going to mean the end of hardcovers. Hardly. I've been in publishing for 30 years, and ever since I walked in the door of my first job at Lippincott and Crowell, I've heard rumors of the death of publishing lurking in every corner. And here we are. Hardcovers didn't die—everything just shifted around, market shares changed, and there was room for everyone.
"I think and hope that the same will be true of content delivery on the internet. Sure, the print and broadcast outlets that I'm used to working with are suffering. But I don't think they're going away. It's all just going to shift—and keep shifting."
Thanks to Novelists, Inc. for sending us an excerpt from the speech independent literary publicist Scott Manning gave at its 20th anniversary conference last weekend in St. Louis, Missouri. And for the photo!
GalleyCat's former book party field correspondent, Amanda ReCupido, now has her own excellent blog, The Undomestic Goddess, where she talks about feminism and pop culture—including some literary events. Earlier this week, she went to a lecture by Barbara J. Berg (left) related to her new book, Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future. "Berg traces the assault on women's status from the 1950s—when Newsweek declared 'for the American girl, books and babies don't mix'—to the present, exploring the deception about women's progress and contextualizing our current situation," ReCupido reports; although there's been some setbacks in the last decade or so, Berg says young women are ready to fight to regain that lost ground and make sure they don't lost it again. "There is much work still left to be done," ReCupido summarizes, "and we have the tools and the drive to do it, so let's get to it!"
Rather than following the traditional book tour circuit, author Emma Straub will visit twelve different locations around the world from her book of short stories–recording the journey 
On Wednesday, the 
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One author turned his book tour into an endurance test, taking a "zero emissions" bike tour down the West Coast to support his title--securing sponsorship from Flip Video, Cannondale Bikes, and other companies.
While building her book tour, one writer decided to add hotel stops to the list of bookstores and book clubs she would visit--complete with hotel-themed promotions. 
From September 7, 2010 until October 6, 2010, JetBlue is offering a special 
Last weekend, this GalleyCat editor joined radio host 
Why read about the future of book coverage when you can talk about it in real life? Tomorrow, we'll join some of publishing's brightest minds in a panel discussion--trying to figure out how to improve our literary reporting at 
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Start the new year right--by finishing your nonfiction book proposal. Throughout the month of December, mediabistro.com is offering daily deals on a slew of its courses that begin in January. Today's offer may interest a few GalleyCat readers.
GalleyCat's former book party field correspondent,