Ed Champion reports on a company-wide restructuring at the publisher, Perseus Books Group. The shake-up will cut at least 12 jobs, and leave two quirky presses in limbo. His links round-up the lit-blog response to the announcement: "More from Jeremy Lassen, who calls this 'sad, scary news for genre publishing,' including a link to this letter to Avalon employees. Sarah observes that this is bad news for mysteries too."
We've explored the genre of fan fiction pretty extensively on this site. What about anti-fan fiction? The good folks over at GalleyCat delivered this choice post earlier this week: "Well, according to the Bookseller, Serpent's Tail has no plans to get out of J.K. Rowling's way when it releases an adult-oriented "anti-Hogwarts" novel at the same time as the final Harry Potter at midnight on July 19th. Danny King's SCHOOL FOR SCUMBAGS takes place in a boarding school, but instead of learning magic, boys learn thievery. 'It's Harry Potter on crack,' the publisher said.'"
Kathleen Maher just posted about the untimely shut-down of Steve Clackson SandStorm blog. "Each individual voice deserves respect, and in a better life, even some attention," she writes. Read her post for a little bit of encouragement to keep going, even when it seems nobody is reading.
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