Scribes’ Tribe Scribblings

Thanks to everyone who posted a question or comment on Monday. I know some of you had trouble getting a password. If you are having a problem, you can email me at margodll@aol.com, and I will post your question/comment for you. Your name will be put in for the free critique. Now, on to the […]

NPR on Book Returns
National Public Radio (NPR) produced a piece June 13 about the issue of book returns. To listen to this six-minute piece, visit www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91461568 and click the “Listen Now” button.
Simon & Schuster Signs on with LibreDigital
Simon & Schuster has joined with LibreDigital, who will provide digital distribution for the publisher’s electronic content. Ellie […]

One in Twenty Buy Kindle e-Book Rather than Print Version
At the 2008 BookExpo America convention, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos revealed that one in 20 people buy the electronic version of a book rather than the printed version. However, Kindle e-book sales account for only 6 percent of overall sales titles “where two versions – a […]

Read some interesting info the other day about the best-seller lists and how they work. Check out this blog: Karen Tabke to read about it.
In addition, someone posted the following links on one of the lists I’m on. These are Yahoo groups for promoting books:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writerspromotips
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/writepublishmarket
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MarketingForRomanceWriters

http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/BraggingRites

From Scribes’ Tribe Member, Joy Wooderson:
I had the pleasure of attending the West Coast Publication Party in Los Angeles on April 10 to celebrate the Spring 2008 issue of The Truth About The Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction published by Loyola Marymount University. My piece “Bougainvillea and Barbed Wire: A Former Citizen Looks at […]

Lately, I’ve seen more and more video trailers for books. You’ll find them on author’s websites and, of course, on youtube. Here’s a couple of links to get you started:

Cursed by Moonlight by Melissa Lopez
Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes Book Trailer
Alexandra Sokoloff THE PRICE
I’d be interested to know how many hits these trailers […]

Laura Bradford spoke at the January Saturday Writers meeting. She and four of her author friends will be signing books at Borders in St. Peters. Her friends are in town for the MS Walk.
Stop by and give her your support and tell her Saturday Writers sent you.
Book Signing this Saturday, April 12 at […]

On one of the Publishers Weekly blogs, Alison Morris comments on a new law in Indiana that will require any businesses that sell “sexually explicit material” to register with the state government.
Read about it here: Could Nudity Harm Indiana’s Minors, Booksellers?
Good heavens, are they serious??
Here is an update from ABFFE (American Booksellers Foundation […]

We all know as writers that one of the best ways to improve our writing is by reading. Every once and a while I think it’s fun to ask the question, “What’s everybody reading?”
Okay, because I’m the instigator, I’ll go first.
WITNESS by Whittaker Chambers
Best remembered as the witness against Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers […]