Sunday, August 07, 2005



I didn't more than glance over the original report in The Bookseller. It said that the Bloomsbury bestseller Rock Me Gently - Judith Kelly's memoir of a traumatic childhood in a Catholic orphanage - was being rewritten after "similarities" were spotted with Antonia White's 1933 novel Frost in May Rock Me Gently

Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: The Traveler: The Tale and/or the Teller
The novel's disappointing start illustrates the risks and advantages of having an unknown author. With luck and the right story, an anonymously written book can seem like a secret everyone is dying to learn, a book that sells itself

When it was released in June, John Twelve Hawks' "The Traveler" seemed an obvious summer smash, a highly publicized, high-tech thriller cited by The New York Times as "page-turningly swift" and also praised in The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and elsewhere. Bur the book didn't stay long on best seller lists, failing to crack the Times top 10, and it's now falling off entirely


Book Has a Marketing Problem: No Author [That's a genuine fake, isn't it? Writer's formula: 'This is a business' ; E-books, cheaper than even paperbacks, are the quintessential "literature for the millions" The Future of the Book ; Reference Libraries ]
• · As Russia's female authors continue to reap awards and top the bestseller lists, several of them share their thoughts about why the second sex has taken first place Women's Hour: Men are strategists, women are tacticians ; Britain should follow the US approach to citizenship, which emphasises not only diversity but the ties that bind The identity vacuum ; I was convinced that I should never see a single line of mine in print in my lifetime Solzhenitsyn's works
• · · Black day for the blue pencil ; The Book Standard Mary Roach's career has been driven mostly by powerful word of mouth Anatomy of a Buzz: 'Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife'
• · · · Once they were key figures in literary publishing, respected by writers who acknowledged their contribution to shaping books. But, editors are now an endangered species Italian rivers run high on drugs ; Sausages with cordial a recipe for asthma
• · · · · Moving house is one of the most stressful events in a person's life, not far behind the death of a spouse A moving reality check is in the mail ; Although nice girls are still expected to say no, it's another story for boys Let's talk about sex
• · · · · · BOOK Expo America Seeing the light; Phillip Adams: There are skid marks before the kangaroo The serious side of jokes