Publishing Insider

All right now

Free's All Right Now, one of the top rock songs of all time, is being used on several commercials now. One instance was last night and my daughter knew it. I've done a good job somehow!

love in the stacks

From Shelf Awareness: A successful book proposal. Joshua Reich proposed to his girlfriend, Shianling King, in "the rare-book, botany and horticulture shelves on the fabled Strand Bookstore's third floor," according to the New York Post, which added that "the black bindings on five skinny books were embossed with one word each, reading, 'Shianling,' 'Will,' 'You,' 'Marry,' 'Me?'"

a neat word!

So our new art director Archie had a sweatshirt when last we met, and across his chest was emblazoned the letters K E R N.  I asked what that meant, and he informed me that it's the term for spacing between letters when laying out type. N e a t!  Check out the sweatshirt here.

sick of Colts-Pats

Oy I'm so sick of the build-up to this game. I'd like it just to be over already, or let it end tied after 25 overtimes. Would drive the talking heads crazy!!

Halloween haiku

Got home already a bit buzzed after some vino and sliders with some colleagues and found the Halloween candy handout stash. Great Jon Stewart and Colbert shows. Buzzed on cocoa, I proceeded onto an amazing Elton John Unplugged.

Chocolate is good

Open wrappers on the floor

Good chocolate buzz

comp lit

Jenny Davidson (The Explosionist, Summer '08, HarperTeen) has a wonderful, long-running blog about literature and reading. It's called Light Reading, and while her book is for teens, she's also a professor of comp lit at Columbia, and her tastes are wide-ranging.