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Little Guy Hits It Big After 20 Smackdowns

by Sara Nelson
Mar. 21st, 2004, 8:00 pm
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There's always a bit of a mystery when a "small" book hits it big.  read more »

The Amazon Epidemic: Writers Addicted to Rankings

by Sara Nelson
Mar. 7th, 2004, 8:00 pm
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Most writers have a lot of romantic notions about what will happen to their lives the minute they pu  read more »

Why Naughty Nannies Got Badly Spanked At Random House

by Sara Nelson
Feb. 15th, 2004, 8:00 pm
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Anyone with a jones for scandal and/or Schadenfreude -which is to say, most of us in the publishing  read more »

On the Road No More: Book Tours Are Over

by Sara Nelson
Nov. 2nd, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Among the most frequently voiced opinions about contemporary publishing-on a list that includes such  read more »

What the Hecht? The Case of the Missing Marketing Blitz

by Sara Nelson
Oct. 26th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Has the recent consolidation of Random House taken its first victim?Whoever wrote the four-page memo  read more »

Whose Book Is It Anyway? When Journalists Get Book Deals

by Sara Nelson
Sep. 28th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Last spring, Seth Mnookin landed himself the kind of book deal every journalist who's honest would a  read more »

Pile On, Publishers! Dueling Titles Hit the Shelves

by Sara Nelson
Sep. 14th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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"If one's good, two (or more) would be better" might as well be the official mantra of nonfiction pu  read more »

My Pseudonym, Myself: If You Got One, Flaunt It!

by Sara Nelson
Aug. 3rd, 2003, 8:00 pm
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The Storyteller , which arrives in stores this week, is an engaging, funny novel about an aspiring a  read more »

Why Did Stuart Do It? And Other Random Questions

by Sara Nelson
Jul. 27th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Since summer is slow in publishing-a few blockbusters courtesy of Hillary and Harry Potter notwithst  read more »

Go West, N.Y. Publishers: It's Showtime in L.A.

by Sara Nelson
Jun. 8th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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To the casual observer, the annual publishing extravaganza known as Book Expo America seems like jus  read more »

Summer Reading Starts Now- Where's My Paperback?

by Sara Nelson
May. 25th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Like a couple of million other Americans, I've already read Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones -so the  read more »

Publicity Move du Jour: The Embargo, Served Cold

by Sara Nelson
May. 4th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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It seems counterintuitive, in a business driven by buzz, that one of the most cutting-edge weapons i  read more »

Publishers, Open Your Books! We Know the Numbers Lie

by Sara Nelson
Apr. 20th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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A few years ago, I met with a prominent editor at a major house on a kind of "go-see" to introduce m  read more »

Publishing

by Sara Nelson
Feb. 2nd, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Why Is Ann Godoff Diving on Penguin?

It's a Lovely Match  read more »

Shelling Out for Sheldon

by Sara Nelson
Jan. 5th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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Just as he's done for the last third of his life, the author Sidney Sheldon ended the year with a mu  read more »

The Lying Game

by Joe Hagan and Sara Nelson
Jan. 5th, 2003, 8:00 pm
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One night last November, novelist Jonathan Lethem was down on his knees pleading before his ex-wife,  read more »

Raging Rosset Ignored; 'Warm, Gentle' Beckett Fêted

by Sara Nelson
Dec. 15th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Given the publishing-world scuttlebutt last week, you might have thought the P.E.N.-sponsored tribut  read more »

Out of Greasy Pan, Into Fire For Bacon-Besotted Author

by Joe Hagan and Sara Nelson
Nov. 10th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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When Gary Taubes' New York Times Magazine article, "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?" hit the st  read more »

Behind Booker Winner: Party-Boy Brit or Unsung Yank?

by Sara Nelson
Nov. 10th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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For a clannish industry that hardly lacks for backbiting and Schadenfreude , publishing is still a s  read more »

The National Book Awards: Big Guns Go AWOL

by Sara Nelson
Oct. 27th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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O.K., it's official: The National Book Awards are publishing's version of the Oscars, right down to  read more »

Big Boff at Frankfurt Hof

by Sara Nelson
Oct. 20th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Every year, New York's publishing world issues a collective complaint about the zoo-like nature of t  read more »

Big Boff at Frankfurt Hof

by Sara Nelson
Oct. 20th, 2002, 8:00 pm
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Every year, New York's publishing world issues a collective complaint about the zoo-like nature of  read more »