For ex, when i got to B&N, Pretty much every book has "#1 New York Times Best Selling Author" or "#1 New York Times Best Seller"
I just don’t get it
This ranking and the book is on a weekly basis, I think the method is stupid but it gives the authors a huge morale/publicity book by [...]
Author Robert Frank discusses his book “The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas” as a part of the Authors@Google series. This event took place on July 23, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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Jeff Jarvis visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “What Would Google Do?” This event took place on February 18, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
In a book that’s one part prophecy, one part thought experiment, one part manifesto, and one part survival manual, internet impresario and blogging pioneer Jeff Jarvis [...]
I’ve been a fan of Stephen King, Clive Barker, Deant Koontz and Peter Straub for a few years now. Usually whenever they write something new I get it from the library or hit the book store when I get a chance. I’m especially a fan of their short stories collections. I was hoping to find [...]
The Authors@Google program welcomed Anthony Grafton to Google’s New York office to discuss his book, “Codex in Crisis”
From the book jacket:
“The growth of the Internet and ambitious new projects like Google Books have led some commentators to foretell the dawn of the “universal archive” and, with it, the end of printed books. In Codex in [...]
The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome philosopher, professor and author Simon Critchley to Google’s NY office to discuss his new book “On Humor”.
Simon Critchley studied philosophy at the University of Essex in England (BA 1985, PhD 1988) and at the University of Nice in France (M.Phil 1987). Among his teachers were Robert Bernasconi, Jay [...]
I like Pynchon, TC Boyle, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson.
Give me some more "beatnik" type, subculture writers. I love it!!
if you like stephen king, you will like Dean Koontz. One of the best fiction writers, he is like the other Stephen King, haha.
Castle ABC TV Show, Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic. Straight off the ABC Castle site, this video interviews a few popular authors (Stephen J. Cannell and Michael Connelly) about Rick Castle. There is some (not too spoilery) footage from season two with Castle at his poker game with the other writer boys.
http://bit.ly/castle1dvd
http://bit.ly/castlebook
http://bit.ly/emailcastle
http://bit.ly/savecastle
http://z8.invisionfree.com/CastleTV/
http://www.castletv.net/
http://twitter.com/CastleCon
http://twitter.com/SaveCastle
DIALOGUE
THE PUBLIC KNOWS [...]
I have sent many letters, not manuscripts mind, via email. Just a brief, concise letter asking if they would be considerate enough to read one chapter. They don’t bother to reply or send a computerised note saying "no". How on earth do new authors get through the barriers?
Perhaps I should have said "publisher or agent". [...]
Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction.
Mr. Harris’ writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New York [...]
