It’s been too long since I posted and I’m fighting the urge to just spew forth a link dump here. Too many good blogs out there mentioning too many good things.
So I’ll kick off my official a-few-days-of-catch-up with my not-so literate review of Bill Bryson’s latest book, which I just finished.
Evidently, March is Small Press Month. It seems to have been so for over a decade, but I’m just now realizing it. Guess I don’t pay enough attention. We’ll have to play it up big next year. Maybe mobilize all of the “bloggers who work for small presses” or something like that. Could be fun.
This weekend’s schedule for BookTV is up.
Every year, Tolstoy’s War and Peace makes it as one of the top-ten best novels every written. So what does publisher Harper Collins want to do to honor this distinction? Put the 1500 page classic on a diet and change the ending, of course!
That’s right, the new edition coming out this year will be half as long and characters who were previously killed will live and others that lived will die. Why?
Harper Collins says…
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