Why Bad Things Happen to Good Titles: A 27-point pre-launch checklist
Updated: 2012-09-28 19:28:33
By Brian Jud
In some ways, books are like humans. They enter the world as babies, full of potential and opportunity, with proud parents boasting great visions for their future success. But as they grow, something happens and very few become the success their...
Last night Google’s UK headquarters in London bore witness to a very special event: a discussion between the UK’s three biggest SF writers, Iain M. Banks, Peter F. Hamilton and Alistair Reynolds. Eight lucky fans from across the world – …
It’s all about the brand. Whether you’re a novelist or an entrepreneur with a new book – you build brand awareness to build business.
In an interesting and intelligent interview in Playboy, the thriller writer Lee Child talks about his work and, in particular, the big-screen adaptation of his novel… Read more 
I am very close to finished with the book for this challenge and posted the introduction. Please add your opinion in the comment section below. 
Publish your own works if you can.
You’ll have more control, and if you have built an audience, you’ll make more money as a author.
Of course, you will be using your book to build your business, because chances are you’re not writing fiction but nonfiction, and you’re using your… Read more 
In November we’re thrilled to be publishing COLD DAYS [UK | ANZ] – the latest Harry Dresden novel from New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author, Jim Butcher.
We’ll talk excitedly about COLD DAYS nearer the time …
Remember those coffee-table books you might have bought (often on the discount table, since so many end up unsold) for a movie you liked? You’d browse through them, then they’d usually end up, if not on a coffee table, then somewhere almost out of sight until you remembered to… Read more 
Quality might be fine, but it doesn’t sell. Thank heaven there are e-books.
That’s a message that’s laid out quite openly in an email sent by the editor of NYRB Lit, a new e-book venture from the venerable biweekly literary journal, The New York Review of Books.
In her email,… Read more 
. , , Home About Orbit FAQ Publishing Schedules Contact Us Sign Up The Traitor Queen Trudi Canavan The gripping final instalment in Trudi Canavan’s latest series , the bestselling Traitor Spy . trilogy Read a sample Share Bookmark The Iron Wyrm Affair Lilith Saintcrow A new steampunk series from best-selling author Lilith . Saintcrow Read a sample Share Bookmark THE SODDIT : If we likess it , then we putss a ring on it Iain M . Banks global launch event for The Hydrogen Sonata Rose Tremlett September 20th , 2012 Orbit are excited to announce that Iain M . Banks will be participating in an international Google+ Hangout to celebrate the publication of THE HYDROGEN SONATA The event will take place on Thursday 27th September at 6pm BST , and Iain will be hanging out with Alastair Reynolds
Publishing is changing drastically, but it’s far from dead.
A few big-name media types have just launched a new publishing venture.
It’s the work of Barry Diller, chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, working with publishing veteran Frances Coady and Atavist, a small… Read more 
Little Island, the children’s and young adult publisher founded by former Irish Children’s Laureate Siobhán Parkinson, has agreed a distribution deal with Walker Books UK. The deal, which comes into force in early 2013 covers both the UK and global export territories. Parkinson said ‘We are thrilled with this partnership, which opens up a huge [...]
Each fall season gives us the usual coverage of what’s ahead in the arts. You could write these articles yourself after awhile without doing more than scanning a few YouTube movie channels, reading some RSS feeds about books and spending five minutes scrolling through arts websites.
I used to compile… Read more 
I was boarding an Air France flight earlier this week on my way back to New York from Paris, where I try to spend a few months a year (thanks to borrowed apartments), and I noticed a Very Important Publisher sitting in first class. Surrounded by folks reading e-books on… Read more 
In a move supported by Forfas na Gaeilge, Walker Books has started an Irish language imprint, Walker Eireann, and will publisher four titles later this month. The list will features titles written and illustrated by Irish authors and illustrators. The first four titles are Stiúcaí Stiúgtha (The Ravenous Beast) by Niamh Sharkey, Ar Strae Beagán (A Bit Lost) [...]