Wait, Why do novels have to say “A Novel” on the cover?
In a recent post for The Goods (by Vox), Eliza Brooke explores this rather interesting question of why novels still feature the simple-to-the-point-of-foolish “reading line” (the industry term for information on… Read more »
In book titles, “Lie” is the new “Girl”
Remember when there were all those books being published that had the word “girl” in the title? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Girl on the Train, Gone Girl. (No judgment… Read more »
Tin House is offering you the chance to throw shade at the manchild in your life
There’s good book marketing and bad book marketing. And occasionally, when the budgets are tight enough and an insanely creative idea is the only chance to give a book the pop… Read more »
Amazon plans to help online publishers in a way that overwhelmingly benefits Amazon (thanks?)
As revenue from digital advertising remains low for everyone except Facebook and Google, magazines and bloggers are struggling to find ways to stay afloat. Last week, we detailed Salon’s clever initiative offer… Read more »
Buffy fans get three prequel years with a new “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” book series
This past Monday (the day before Halloween!) Entertainment Weekly’s David Canfield bypassed the scary and went full-on jolly, revealing the cover of and posting an excerpt from the first-ever “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” book, a… Read more »
How my publishing job was made totally super-obsolete with a little help from Leslie Norins, MD, PhD
Folks, the jig is up. After decades of market research, untold hours fiddling with Photoshop, trackless weeks spent optimizing and promoting and cross-marketing and emailing and reading and burning sacrificial… Read more »
When the Librarians came to Melville House: Fall 2017 Edition
This past Friday, June 9th, we here at Melville House were lucky enough to spend the afternoon with some of the finest folks around, the Librarians, on the occasion of… Read more »
PRESS RELEASE: Melville House offers FREE ebook of torture report after Senate Republicans try to suppress it
Melville House has announced it is giving away free ebooks of its edition of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture after reports that the Republican head of the Senate… Read more »
Does Graywolf Press design book covers based on walls? (Or, where are all these walls in Minneapolis?)
Instagram can be a silly place. As I open it right now, its algorithm has picked something about #trampolines to recommend: a frat bro (shirtless, of course) and a girl, on a platform… Read more »
Timothy Snyder’s manifesto for resisting tyranny hits the streets of London
Last week, when we checked in with the academic Timothy Snyder, there was a whole lot of hoopla flying around about his new book On Tyranny. That story had everything:… Read more »