'Sleeper'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I started reading The Demon's Lexicon after Betsy mentioned it in LJ. I like it so far, and I'm intrigued enough to keep reading, but -- having never watched the show -- it's pretty much Supernatural, right?
Also, the cover art makes me laugh and laugh, because it looks like Tom Welling. There's a whole CW network thing going on there -- reads like Supernatural, looks like Smallville.
Hah, it totally does.
With a touch of Damon (Ian Somerhalder) from Vampire Diaries. Total CW-fest.
Literature-Map - the tourist map of literature.
I'm a bit surprised by Douglas Adams. I guess he's more mainstream than I'd thought.
Where's the best place to read a good synopsis of the Amazon/MacMillan brouhaha? I understand that Amazon has pouted and at least mostly come round, but the details and precisely what they dropped lost me.
I could forward you the Publishers Marketplace summaries, if you want.
Here are a couple of takes on it that I found useful:
They were written before Amazon released its "capitulation" letter, which has to be one of the most passive-aggressive press releases I've ever read.
I quoted an article that outlines the "agency model" which is, in effect what the whole mess was about, in my blog, ita. [link]
Thanks. Those links were all very informative.
And that concession letter by Amazon? Major pissy fit material. Sheesh.
"capitulation" letter, which has to be one of the most passive-aggressive press releases I've ever read.
I am *astonished* that a business would ever put something out like that. That kind of blew me away.