Showing posts with label Amanda Hocking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amanda Hocking. Show all posts

Friday, October 14, 2011

Fancy Pants News: These People Be On the Nets for Books and Libraries

So I been ill for a day or so,
so I'll try to be funny all in one go.
Not trying to rhyme,
not all the time.
This is breaking down.
I feel like a clown.
So here's the news, this time I mean it.
Anybody got a peanut?

Singer lady Taylor Swift donated over 6,000 books to- I'ma let you finish I just need a cheap cameo.  Whine, whine, who's got wine?- the city of Reading, PA. cbsnews

A homeless man in the Evanston Public Library threw a chair through a wall after over a banning dispute for behavior. That'll fix it, hombre. Patch

Librarians turned defacement into an art show when play-write Joe Orton's artistic vandalism of library books was put on display.  Well, way to fix the problem.  Got a crazy notion to write your memoirs in library book bindings?  Hey, we may publish that. Guardian

Pace University has commented on shutting down the Henry Birnbaum Library due to bedbugs, saying, "Yep, we got bedbugs." gothamist

Self-published wunderkind author Amanda Hocking is moving into the world of graphic novels with Dynamite Entertainment.  Write on, ya crazy kid!  PublishersWeekly

Children's book illustrator Sophie Blackall has created a book based on Craigslist's "Missed Connections" section.  "You were in red, I had a gimp mask on.  We were on the subway and you really creeped me out by asking if I wanted to pose nude for the delight of children.  I still do." NYDailyNews

Toronto library staff have proposed to cut staff and hours in an effort to appease Mayor Rob Ford's requests that budgets be trimmed.  Next, Toronto police will buy their own bullets and gas and teachers will... hell, teachers got nothing either.  citytv

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Self Publishing Queen Sells Out: Good For Her

Fate (My Blood Approves, Book 2)
Can't fight fate...
Self-published author Amanda Hocking recently signed a book deal with St. Martin's Press for more than $2 million.  Hocking has already made around that much in her self publishing efforts, as we reported a while back.  She was made a media and indie publishing darling after the news was announced and I bet some out there are saying she sold out.  Screw'em.  You get paid, girl.

Plus, she already did her work.  She wrote, she marketed, she self-published.  She got paid.  Now, she gets paid without having to do all that work (beyond writing).  Good for her.  I hope everyone learns from this:  if you work long and hard and make a lot of money at it, big corporations will pay you.  The more you know.

New York Times