30 June 2010

Prologues and Passengers

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Last month folks were discussing the value of prologues in novels; see comments from Nathan Bransford and his community and Dear Editor . I...
29 June 2010

What’s Really to Blame for the Deficit

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From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, using official projects from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office: Full article her...
28 June 2010

Why Publishers Use Stock Photos for Book Covers

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Publishers Weekly just ran a story by Judith Rosen about the making of the cover for a Young Adult novel. This story was, of course, part ...
27 June 2010

The Short, Happy Life of the First Jason Todd

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When I posited that Reason for Robin #10 is that “Robin Isn’t Evil,” I promised to discuss the two major counterexamples. Actually, back wh...
26 June 2010

The Future of Publishing: Free Books at a High Cost?

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Scott Adams, himself a bestselling author and even artist, recently wrote on his blog : I predict that the profession known as “author” will...
25 June 2010

Prime Material

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Gene Luen Yang ’s Prime Baby was one of the two comics serials published in the New York Times Magazine a coupla years back that I actuall...
24 June 2010

Gotta Wear Shades

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Mike Shatzkin ran the math on the declining prospects for the Kindle, Nook, Reader, and similar dedicated devices setting the course for el...
23 June 2010

I Was Hoping to Have the Tower Room Myself

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Rex Parker at Pop Sensation featured this back cover for a paperback edition of John Dickson Carr’s The Case of the Constant Suicides : The...
22 June 2010

Virginia Lee Burton’s Kids Comic

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Yesterday I showed a sequential-art print that Virginia Lee Burton created about 1940 for new colleagues in her Folly Cove Designers coope...
21 June 2010

Virginia Lee Burton’s Adult Comic

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This weekend I attended what I might call my first and last academic conference about fashion, co-sponsored by the Costume Society of Americ...