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Josie Brown's Blog
June 8, 2009
- It's being published by Simon & Schuster. I'm thrilled, as you can imagine. Let's start with the fact that I'm enchanted with my editor, Megan McKeever. The excitement she and her team have for this project is an author's dream.And just think: this time next year, it will be on a bookstore shelf near you.What's the story? It is a chronicle of the bitter divorce of a ...
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March 20, 2009
- Am TOTALLY bummed when I hear about supposedly smart companies doing something that hurts those that help make their bottom lines. The parable of the scorpion and the frog comes to mind. You know it by heart: Those two critters make a deal to cross the river together–despite the fear on the frog's part that the scorpion will bite it, and produce instant paralysis. But wanting to believe, ...
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March 16, 2009
- Crikey. T'warnt there, but apparently the publishing industry panel at SxSW did a major crash-and-burn. While the session was entitled "New Think for Old Publishers," what it demonstrated was that publishers can't new-think at all–or at least, they can't articulate what they are thinking (let alone doing) to nudge publishing over that bridge into the 21st Century.About a decade ...
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