The Great Link Catch-up

So the New York Times pulled Joyce Wadler off the Boldface beat so she could do things like, oh, feature Caleb Carr’s house. Somehow her descriptions just aren’t up to her loopy standard…

I know I should probably pay more attention to the interview Tim Green gives to USA Today about his duelling careers but damn…that hair. What’s going on with it?

So George Galloway had enough trouble getting himself elected as an MP…now he wants to get into publishing with a new imprint? Weird.

The Aventis Prize for the best science book published last year has gone to…a “rank outsider,” as the Independent dubs Philip Ball.

The Capital Times (WI) has nice things to say about C.J. Box’s newest Joe Pickett novel, OUT OF RANGE.

The Book Standard profiles Liz Dubelman and her fledgling book promotion company, VidLit, which quite frankly, rocks.

If 50 is the perfect age to write a novel, what the hell am I so pressured about to get my revisions done?

Do the 3 for 2 promotions in the UK discriminate against small publishers because they are took expensive? Um, was this not obvious already?

Who is Hockey’s Deep Throat? The “buzz” is so that McLelland and Stewart can flog an upcoming expose on the game, although I bet the cat will be let out of the bag soon enough. (link from Publishers Lunch)

And finally, well I can’t say I was surprised to hear about this. What will Comedy Central do? I guess another edition of THE MAN SHOW ain’t gonna work…