Barbara Vey

This week I had the pleasure of lunching with historical writers Julie Anne Long and Laura Lee Gurhke....

Josie Leavitt

During the holidays someone had called to ask if we had The Invention of Hugo Cabret. We did not have it because it was back-ordered. As we talked on the [...]...

Rose Fox

Genreville is taking a field trip to Chicago for the 2012 Worldcon....

Adam Boretz

The audio edition of Daniel Kraus' Rotters, produced by Listening Library and Random House Audio and read by Kirby Heyborne, was awarded the 2012 Odyssey Award....

Soapbox

The Power Of the Pen
I have always loved making stories, and by that I mean the process of making them, taking the words in my head and giving them physical form. A gift of a blank notebook for my eighth birthday inspired my first attempt at a novel. I only got six pages into it, but I took great joy in ruling pencil lines for my sentences. At 10, I spent a year’s worth of pocket money on a typewriter. I still remember the satisfaction its smart click against the page gave me. But in the end I did not love my typewriter. My inability to achieve perfection with it often made me cry. I was too stern for erasing fluid, and I didn’t like processions of errors across a page. At 15, a computer seemed the answer. My parents made me take a typing course, which taught me a great deal about the dating situations of the other students (mainly young women in their 20s) and also how to type fast.

Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: Copyrights vs. Human Rights
December 10 is Human Rights Day, as designated by the U.N. General Assembly and observed all over the world. In honor of the occasion, I want to address the human rights implications associated with something central to all of us in the publishing industry: copyright policy.

Editorials

Close Cover Before Striking
It has oft been said—and oft despairingly—that the book business has become more and more like the TV and movie biz, what with the corporate ownership, the philistine sensibilities, the blockbuster mentality and the focus on the bottom line. Books these days are supposed to “open” like Brad Pitt films and run like Law & Order.