Smatterings

After reading this article about what bookshops, retailers and others will do just to get people to buy Harry VI, I have that song from DUCK SOUP in my head…

And speaking of Pottermania, Owen Jones is the lucky teen who gets to interview JK Rowling about the new book. Sometimes, being a fanboy has its privileges…

Meanwhile, Erica Wagner’s grown rather cranky because in her view, the magic is loooooong gone. You know, kind of like when you discover a band — think the Killers or Franz Ferdinand — before they got megafamous.

With DEATH’S LITTLE HELPERS hitting stores right now, Peter Spiegelman’s on the interview circuit, starting off with the News-Times in Danbury, CT.

Jasper Fforde’s out promoting the start of a new series that starts with the intriguing question: did Humpty Dumpty fall, or was he pushed?

Alison Rowat looks at the backlash that seems to hit when female writers become major bestsellers, like Rowling or Janet Evanovich. Hmm, this topic sounds rather familiar…

And finally, if you’re Chris Cleave, things have to suck a bit right now. Your debut novel INCENDIARY got a lot of pre-pub attention and buzz, but those marketing ads? Not so a propos right now…