Exploring and understanding audience, encouraging communication, announcing excerpts and celebrating book releases. Just basically talking about websites... and the occasional cupcake.
NEW BOOKS:
JANE PORTER released She’s Gone Country earlier this month. I got to read this book months ago and loved it. AUTHOR WEBSITE BONUS: Check out the Readers’ Guide for the book — a great tool for book clubs! Even better: be a cover girl yourself! (Seriously, check this thing out. It’s [...]
Today, on this 90th anniversary of Women’s Right To Vote (yes, folks, it’s less than 100 years old!), let’s take a moment to look at how far we still have to go.
The past week sparked controversy as Jonathan Franzen’s latest book approaches release and the critics work themselves into a frenzy over it. Why do [...]
I love watching the team work. As art/creative director I am definitely part of the process, but I don’t have my hands on the mouse or the the sketchpad. We have design summits here — stretches of time where Misono and Estella turn off email, and I don’t bug them with new or little things [...]
Since 2008, MySpace has been been making regular and large staffing cuts. In 2009, comScore reported that Facebook had twice the global traffic as MySpace.
Back in February of 2010, one of the CEOs quit, and it was seen as a really bad sign. Back in the heyday of MySpace, bands flocked to MySpace [...]
All hail this wonderful new booksigning happenstance. Please join me in a melifluous chorus of “Niiiiccccce!” in response to this new fabulous Best Fan Behavior:
“Sign my Nook, please.”
Fans didn’t just buy books to support literacy programs, I saw a quite a few people handing over their Nooks for authors to sign. The backs are [...]
