What grabbed me?
The Wall Street Journal tells us how The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo got its’ cover. And for more cover coverage, Betsy Lerner introduces the nomenclature “Massengill Covers” into book lingo. Then there is this: Conservative vs.: Liberal Women’s Book Covers. Bonus: Publisher’s Weekly covers book cover trends.
Men famed and not admit their biggest screw-ups and mistakes on the Good Men Project.
NYT reports that Amazon says eBooks sales tops hardcover sales.
Eleven most over-rated things Mark Juddery is pretty interesting in his analysis of baseball, Star Trek, astrology and more.
Author and oft-reviewer Steve Almond takes the NYT to task for “trashing my new book” Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life and more. Steve’s a brave guy—perhaps he will next look at the number of men’s books vs. women’s books reviewed by the NYT and Boston Globe.
Agent and writer Nathan Bransford offers a reassuring Top Ten Myths About Our E-Book Future.
I’d have included Boston Globe reporter Stephanie Ebbert’s post Think of the Children even if she hadn’t mentioned my book and even if it wasn’t on a multi-writer blog to which I belong (Beyond The Margins) for the questions it asks: how do readers and writers cope with children in danger?
And in the life sometimes goes the right way department, a headline in USA Today reads: Openly gay Lutheran pastors to be welcomed to church roster.
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