The Amateur Gourmet (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
It recently occurred to me that I wrote a book. Yes, almost a year ago my book, “The Amateur Gourmet: How To Shop, Chop and Tablehop Like A Pro (Almost)” was released by Bantam/Dell. The book, which will come...
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Peter W. Olson has run Random House since 1998 but will be stepping down in the next couple of weeks due to lowered profits and “steep losses in its American book clubs.” I have no idea what effect that will have on Bantam/Dell or Ballantine, but I’ve always found those houses to offer great [...]
Trashionista (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
I still don't understand Second Life, but I guess I don't have to. On Sunday, 2 March at 5PM EST, Sophie Kinsella will be appearing at The Amphitheatre on Bantam Dell Island.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
THE ANATOMY OF DECEPTION. Lawrence Goldstone. Bantam Dell. 352 pages. $24. For audiences increasingly drawn to CSI-type murder mysteries, Lawrence Goldstone reminds them that crime fighting can be just as gripping without all the high-tech wizardry.
Big Bad Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/26/2007
:: Globe and Mail: Golden Compass Not Anti-Religious, Movie’s Star Says Days after an Ontario school board temporarily pulled copies of Philip Pullman's popular fantasy novel The Golden Compass from their shelves, the people bringing it to the big screen, including actor Daniel Craig, have come to its defence. :: Publishers Weekly: More Publishers Go With TurnHere TurnHere, [...]
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 11/23/2007
Here's the synopsis for Paul Kearney's ( www.paulkearneyonline.com ) forthcoming The Ten Thousand : The world of Kuf, an ancient Assurian Empire, dominant, prestigious and thought to be invincible, is about to be shaken to its very foundations. An exile from the empire, the Great King’s brother, hires a force of ten thousand elite mercenaries of a legendary race known as the Macht to take the throne...
Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 11/22/2007
BookVideos.tv and now includes titles from, Bantam Dell, Chronicle, Hachette Book Group, MacMillan, Thomas Nelson and W.W. Norton as well as the original publisher Simon & Schuster. Its interesting in the day of the widget to see where the video is today and how the YouTube effect is moving the opportunity forward. Other contenders such as Meet the Author and Bookwrap have been around for some time...
Big Bad Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
:: Atlanta Journal Constitution: World's Worst Book Title Winner The winner was “Cooking With Pooh,” which is a real book from Disney. It barely beat out “Letting It Go: a History of American Incontinence,” “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (which I think maybe some people did not realize [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2007
When TurnHere launched the Bookvideos.tv website earlier this year, its short promotional films were produced exclusively for Simon & Schuster...
901am (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
TurnHere announced the launch of the multi-publisher book-centric network, Bookvideos.tv. The site will feature videos from leading publishing houses including Bantam Dell, Chronicle, Disney (Hyperion), Doubleday Broadway, Hachette Book Group, Loyola Press, MacMillan, Simon & Schuster, Thomas Nelson and WW Norton. Together with the publishers, TurnHere will produce videos that tell the stories behind...
Mashable (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
TurnHere, the online video service, is expanding its multi-publisher book network, Bookvideos.tv. It's purpose is to promote videos from publishing houses for which it's created videos. As with other services that TurnHere produces videos for, it will expand a video’s reach beyond its own network to include YouTube and other media-sharing sites across [...]
Uncle Zip's Window (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
This is such fun. The text was modified from the Bantam Dell podcast, which was in turn derived from a much longer, madder piece I wrote while I was finishing the novel. Some bits of that have already appeared here. I’ll probably post the whole thing soon, though it won't do me any good with [...]
SLNN (Free subscription) | 10/11/2007
Diana Gabaldon will appear Thursday, Oct. 11 at 6:00 p.m. SLT live at the Bantam Dell Amphitheatre and via videocast on a number of sims including Elysian Isle, Podcast Island, sLiterary and SoHo.
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2007
This contest turned out to be a lot more popular than I thought it would. Hopefully this means that more and more people will discover what I consider to be Donaldson's best work to date!:-) Our winner will get his hands on a full set of The Gap series, compliments of the good folks at Bantam Dell. The winner is: - Keith D. Grimes, from Rochester, Michigan, USA Thanks to all the participants!;-)
Trashionista (Free subscription) | 10/05/2007
I have to admit I don't understand Second Life at all. I've tried to, but it just makes my head hurt. I do appreciate that some of you may be younger, hipper and more tech-minded than me (actually, most of you probably are) and so I thought you might be interested to know that on 11 October at the Amphitheater on Bantam Dell Island (on Second Life), author Diana Gabaldon will be
