A beta version of the literary social networking site Redroom.com is active. The San Francisco-based start-up aims to connect authors and their readers, using blogs, podcasts, even video clips. So far, so good: Salman Rushdie, devorah major, Ishmael Reed, and T. Coraghessan Boyle have all contributed content. A portion of the advertising revenue from the … Continue reading A Shining Site for Authors
Author: Anders
Now Hear This
I've just discovered that the Financial Times newspaper reviews audiobooks. On the page now are reviews of Patricia Cornwell's thriller The Book of the Dead and Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman.--David E
Just Maybe
I can only guess that if you're an actor and you live long enough, you are somehow forced to write a children's book. Jamie Lee Curtis, Julianne Moore, and John Lithgow all have thin tomes on the short shelves.Now comes word that British comedian David Walliams, best known in this country as the tall one … Continue reading Just Maybe
Musings from Magers and Quinn 