Unusual news broke last week that Lee Child is retiring from writing—and passing the mantle of his all-action hero Jack Reacher on to his brother, Andrew Grant. The BBC and… Read more »

Lee Child (né James Grant) has sold 100 million copies of his Jack Reacher novels, and (by our count) smoked at least 13,640 joints over the last forty-four years. At least. This… Read more »

Have you ever wondered what would happen if someone put all the books in the land on an island, gave them a taste for sales, and had them battle it… Read more »

If you’ve been slowly wrecking your immune system at the Javits Center this week for #BEA15, it’s old news that publishers are going all-out promotionwise. With enough totes to fill… Read more »

Topics discussed: blurbers, blurbers, blurbees, Led Zeppelin, logrolling, the state of the publishing industry, the state of our confusion about the publishing industry, ISIS, Alex’s love of ISIS, Alex’s love of… Read more »

As if it wasn’t already hard enough to pick a new blender. Gartner Research estimates that in two years’ time 10–15% of social media reviews will be fake, either written… Read more »

There was a depressing article in the New York Times over the weekend about the rate at which novelists are expected to churn out books these days: two a year… 1 / Read more »