Rethinking the Publishing Company
Well worth reading this. Read more…
Mountains to Sea Festival 2010
The folks at the Mountains To Sea festival in Dun Laoghaire deserve medals. With more kids milling about than you can shake a stick at, a bonanza of booksellers, a herd of writers and crowds of parents in fact… they probably deserve knighthoods after their last week. Read more…
Making the grade | The Post
Long piece on Folens in the Sunday Business post, worth a read
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A Flutter on the Booker
Betting on Booker, i’d put money on Emma Donoghue, I just have a feeling, course I’m sure I’ll be shown to be wrong. Read more…
Learning what every publisher needs to know these days about direct response
Email lists, amazing tools, but hard to work properly Read more…
Mexican Literary Magazine looking for Irish Writers
An exciting new opportunity for young Irish writers! Read more…
Watch this. It’s excellent until the band starts talking!
Guerrilla
Nice review for IAP’s Ambushes and Armour: The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921 Read more…
The living and working conditions of artists in the Republic and North of Ireland.
On the one hand, you wonder why we should worry too much about this? On the other it does seem sad! Read more…
S&S joins iBookstore
I wonder when we’ll see it? Read more…
Electric Picnic | David Donohue and Me
If you happen to find yourself in a field in Stradbally this weekend (namely at Electric Picnic), enjoying the music, comedians, art, dancing and literary what-nots – then this is for you. Read more…
Down These Green Streets …
Good news this! Read more…
Cor Klaasen Exhibition
This is an excellent idea. Read more…
Response: The digital era has not made publishers defunct
Worth reading Read more…
Is there a role for the publisher in a digital market?
Interesting post from Zoe Read more…
Third edition of OED unlikely to appear in print format
I don’t know why anyone would expect it would? Isn’t it better in digital form anyway, more useful? Read more…
Paperbacks: Tom Widger
IF YOU thought there was little more to be said about this most discussed period in the country’s history, think again. Ann Matthews has dug deep and dug well and surfaces with some new information. Read more…
Champagne bubbles remain fizzy for finale
In 2008 in Renards, the Dublin nightclub where Amanda Brunker once worked as a hostess, the self-styled model, TV presenter, party girl and former Miss Ireland launched Champagne Kisses, the first in a trilogy of novels charting the doings of one Eva “Da Diva” Valentine, gossip columnist, party animal and general good-time girl. Read more…
Celebrity chef with a recipe for the Famine
Fascinating story! Read more…
Beauty, harshness, menace and the spine of steel worthy of high art Read more…
A rather excellent video featuring Jamie Byng, who’ll be appearing at Mountains To Sea in Dun Laoghaire in September
Hatched | everything I want to say on one page
David discusses blurbs, including his own! Read more…
Upwardly mobile | moving in and what not
And he discusses new digs! Read more…
Book Launch: Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922
Ann was on Pat Kenny yesterday, interesting book this one. Read more…
Moving on
This really should be read, considered, parsed, filed and re-visited by publishers across the globe. It’s message, however unpalatable, is a vital one! Read more…
Gollancz appoints Nash as digital publisher
On a very selfish level I admire Gollancz as a publisher, if only because they publish some of the finest sci-fi and fantasy. Read more…
Miriam O’Callaghan and Mercier Press title
And why wouldn’t they? (I commissioned Moxie while working at Mercier Press) Read more…
Sell, Socialise and Survive at the Frankfurt Book Fair
Good advice on Frankfurt. IPN will be there so don’t be afraid to send us your stories and releases! Read more…
Edinburgh
Nice note on Edinburgh from Laura! Read more…
Waterstone’s to open bar and restaurants
I think this makes sense, but don’t quote me on it! Read more…
Samsung launches e-reader with W H Smith
When will the ebook and ereading bug bite home here? Read more…
PW Select: A Quarterly Service for Self-Published Authors to Launch in December
Publishers Weekly will launch a quarterly magazine in December focusing on announcements and reviews of self-published titles. However, listed self-published titles will come at a fee of $149 to the author and reviews will only be on selected titles. Read more…
Publicity for Mercier Press titles
Three of Mercier Press titles were reviewed in national papers at the weekend. Read more…
Reivew: Rules for a Perfect Life by Niamh Greene
IN Rules for a Perfect Life, each of the 27 chapters, like those in some self-help manuals, is headed by a maxim, which will, if followed, apparently change your life for the better. Read more…
Tales of the Burren, and other places
A nice list of new local history titles Read more…
Ireland’s desperadoes of the veld
Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1880-1899, By Charles van Onselen Read more…
Book Club: Tenderwire by Claire Kilroy
An interesting move this! Read more…
Review: Jumping in Puddles by Claire Allan
The Balamory lookalike seaside village of Rathinch may look postcard-perfect to summer visitors. But for locals who live there all year, it is a place of squinting windows, a hotbed of righteous gossip. Read more…
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Walt Whitman are a girl’s best friend Read more…
The Life of a Full Time Writer – yep, that would be moi! Read more…
Room
Nice review of Room from Raven Books Read more…
Lennon takes the lead
Rampaging ex-paramilitaries, undercover cops and the return of familiar serial killers – there’s lots out there for lovers of the crime genre, writes DECLAN BURKE Read more…
Review: Girl In A Spin by Clodagh Murphy
Write what you know, they say, but Dublin author Clodagh Murphy has broken the rule and set her second novel in the world of British politics. Read more…
The Temple House Festival – Music & The Arts
Was there for No Place Like Dome, smashing grounds. Read more…
Go Read This | Author Ray Connolly explains why he is publishing his latest novel chapter by chapter, online | Books | The Guardian Read more…
Panel Picking: SXSW 2011
It thrills me that the book community is actively participating in the South by Southwest Interactive festival. Read more…
Movie adaptation – No Country for Old Men
I loved the book, just loved it! Aint seen the movie yet. Read more…
More Concerns about Australia/New Zealand Bookselling Giant; McNally Jackson Still Waiting for Espresso to Brew
Bookstores in crisis everywhere it seems Read more…
Learning some things at dinner in Sao Paolo
Fascinating post from Mike Sjatzkin Read more…
David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards
Well this is interesting! Read more…
Hemlines and the Hierarchy
Good review for THPI Read more…
Fiction – Room
Decent review for Emma Donoghue’s The Room Read more…
Karl Uhlemann II
I do love The Hitone cover blog! Read more…
Riggio to take B&N private
B&N is going to survive the digital shift, at least that is my opinion. Read more…
Quercus triples revenues to £15m
Amazing what one series can do for you eh? Read more…
Ridout resurfaces at Phaidon
This is an interesting appointment. Read more…
The Magic of Good Writing Days
There’s nothing like the feeling of joy and contentment that washes over you after a good writing day. A day where everything just clicks into place, where the characters dance off the page, wisecracking among themselves, telling the reader secrets that you, the writer, never knew. Read more…
Lonely Planet launches augmented reality guide book
A very clever move by Lonely Planet Read more…
August Meeting
For our book club meeting on Wednesday August 18, we are reading Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Read more…
A review of Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason (Harvill Secker 2009; 2007 Icelandic)
Great review for Arnaldur Indridason’s Hypothermia Read more…
Amazon sells out of both Kindles days after launch
Quite a feat! Read more…
Odyssey not commercial, says Makinson
Yes with a but! Read more…
Amazon claims to have 70-80% of e-book market
Which in many ways demonstrates that the market is changing rapidly. Last year it would surely have been 90-95%. Read more…
Want to choose your own adventure? There’s a books app for that
This is a nice development Read more…
E-books to account for 10% of RH US sales, says Dohle
That’s a huge figure! Read more…
The Checklist Manifesto
Nice note this from Raven Books Read more…
Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures
They’ve used the cover for one of the first books I published! Read more…
Sixties Fishing Guides
These are excellent Read more…
Book launch: Executed for Ireland
Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story by May Moran was recently launched in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon and in Kilmainham Jail. Read more…
DLR LIBRARY BLOG
Two reviews from DLR Libraries today!
MAGIC UNIVERSE BY NIGEL CALDER. Read more…
Amazon’s ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US
Amazon sold more kindle ebooks than hardback books in the last three months Read more…
A Look at Mexico City’s Book Kiosks
Nice feature from Publishing Perspectives Read more…
A glimpse into the eighteenth century book trade: How to encourage book buying
Rather nice this one! Read more…
Irish Times review Blood Money.
Good news for Arlene, nice review! Read more…
Edinburgh!
Laura’s off to Edinburgh. I know some folks already there and others going. Sounds like fun! Read more…
Novel Workshop 2010-2011
This is not a cheap workshop! Read more…
Review of Gallows Lane by Brian McGilloway (Pan, 2008)
Doesn’t spare the author, but overall good takaway. Read more…
Review: Capital Sins by Peter Cunningham
Great review for Peter Cunningham’s Capital Sins Read more…
Clare County Library launches Children’s Book Festival on October 1st 2010 with best-selling author Darren Shan.
This is pretty big deal! Read more…
Over 17,000 links added to library website
Now this is very cool Read more…
Brutal harvest
Seems to me that Crime fiction has finally broken fully onto the Times books pages Read more…
A curious treatment of the Troubles
This is a decent review in the sense of searching Read more…
Chips off the old Irish block
Interesting review Read more…
He lived fast and died young, but how good a writer was Behan?
Nice piece on Brendan Behan Read more…
Ohmigod They’ve Shot Kenny, Etc.
Nice post & the Kenny videos are great! Read more…
A bittersweet look at life
In 2007, Catherine O’Flynn was a little-known first-time author. After 20 rejections, her book What Was Lost was published by a tiny Birmingham publishing company. Read more…
artemis find his nice side . . .
A preview for Artemis Fowl! Read more…
On the Riverbank
Oisin gives an audience Read More…
French Kissies From The USA
Tana French has really been getting the good from the US and Declan is right to point it out! Read more…
And they’re off!
Help the runners! They done good! Read more…
DLR LIBRARY BLOG
You know i HATED* this book, but several of my friends loved it. Read more…
SO much so that I stopped reading it and dropped it back to the library, a rarity in my world.
Ceann an Bhóthair by Séamus Ó hAodha
Stunning cover Read more…
One year on …
A year in blogging, it aint easy! Read more…
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