Ypulse Book Essentials: RDR Loses, The Roald Dahl Award, Marketing Your Book
Posted by alli on 09-10-2008
Judge finds in favor of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. (in their copyright case against RDR Books. Surprised? RDR planned to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon) (New York Times, reg. required)
- A new prize for funny books (Introducing, The Roald Dahl Award.) (The Telegraph)
- Great post at All Book Marketing (“Think the hard part is over once you’ve landed that book contract and see your new book in print?” Guest blogger Sara will set you straight.)
- Get reading. Get writing. (The Virginia Quarterly Review is holding a Young Reviewer Contest…get your submissions in by September 31, 2008)
- Wild Thing (The film verion of Where the Wild Things Are is back on track and slated for release on October 16 2009.) (Cynopsis)
- Page to Screen (The Willoughby’s, The Giver, Number the Stars, The Birthday Ball…Go Lois Lowry.) (Publishers Weekly)
- Users peddle the Kindle (“Amazon enlists volunteer army of enthusiasts to demonstrate device”) (AdAge.com, reg. required)
- Lisa McMann at her Alma Mater (Author of Wake talks about faith, teens, and writing.) (Spark/Calvin University)
- Mr. Ambassador, Jon Sciesczka (“One of the widest planks in his platform is to broaden adults’ ideas of what reading is.” I love it.) (Newsday)
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