Another ‘interview’, this one is actually a podcast by the mighty Mur Lafferty. She had Lou Anders from Pyr Books and me on a panel at Dragon*Con, and has now posted the chat. Some good stuff in there, we talk about the state of the publishing industry, the state of the genre, big cons versus [...]
I’ve been interviewed by Charles Tan of Bibliophile Stalker. He asks some cool questions, which allowed me to go into quite some detail about my personal background, my role at Tor.com, and Tor.com’s plans for world domination the future. My favourite bit, where I rant a bit about publishing, is below:
In your opinion, how is [...]
I just got back from Reykjavik, Iceland, where I attended EVE Online Fanfest 2009 thanks to the gracious folk at CCP Games, whose game tie-in books Tor Books is publishing. They wanted their editor, Eric Raab, and I to check out their fanbase and their headquarters, so they flew us out for the weekend. What [...]
On a coffee run this afternoon, in the midsts of an utterly craptacular day at work, @chapmanchapman, @ami_with_an_i and I turned a corner off 5th Av and walked past a truck with a trickle of smoke coming out its corners. Not twenty paces later, it had turned into this:
The smoke actually got much worse; black [...]
I’m pleased to report that last night’s Tor.com Rock Band party was a rousing success! We got off to a bit of a slow start, but once the indomitable Jeremy Lassen of Nightshade Books (who is nursing a rather severe sore throat this morning) got on the mic, the party got into full swing. His [...]
Via the Book Oven Blog, an nifty little French video by Editis:
I mostly agree with what I’m seeing here, and it gets me excited. Except for two things:
1) When they get to the museum and scan the art book into their reader. I call bullshit. Art books are objects you own. They go on your [...]
Last month I was bamboozled asked nicely by my colleagues at Macmillan, Ryan Chapman and Ami Greko, to participate in a group talk at BEA (Book Expo America). The participants, Debbie Stier (Harper Studio), Jeff Yamaguchi (Knopf Doubleday and 52 Projects), Matt Supko (ABA/Indiebound and creator of the Indiebound iPhone app), Chris Jackson (Spiegel and Grau), Richard Nash (formerly of Soft Skull [...]
I usually go on and on about ebooks, and I do most of my reading on my iPhone these days, but I also love me some finely-crafted codices.
I learned of this British deluxe edition of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother by accident, almost—Voyager Books advertises on Tor.com, and I was mangling some newsletter copy related to [...]
From Publishers Weekly:
More than two days after it first began experiencing problems with the ranking feature on an array of titles–mostly books with gay and lesbian themes–Amazon said last night that the problem was due to an ”an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error.” The mistake involved 57,310 books in what Amazon said was a broad [...]
Well, it’s Monday morning, it’s around 10am on the left coast, and still nary a word from Amazon regarding AmazonFail. In the meantime, PNH has a characteristically evenhanded analisys of the situation on Making Light (which, while I’m inclined to agree with it, the situation still boils my blood), and Mur Lafferty explains why this [...]