Kindle and Amazon seem to be becoming more aggressive about marketing e-books before the print books come out. 

(Although if the book is not published, an e-book could just as well be called a ”manuscript” or, in some cases, simply marketing material.)

The latest…

Several local poets will get together for an October event to benefit the Lupus Foundation.

Some of the spoken word poets are Floyd Boykin Jr., Ms. Nterpretation, Chill Da Player, El Thought, QueeniBee, Derek Brown, Brother Ting, Symmetry and Xplicit. 

Here is more information from a…

It’s not your imagination: Books really are published at lightning speed these days.

Technology and distribution methods allow a new “biography” of Sarah Palin to hit the market almost exactly 6 weeks after she was named John McCain’s running mate.  I put “biography”…

Wilfred Bereswill has published his first novel, a mystery. Thanks Claire Applewhite for giving him the third-degree about “A Reason for Dying.”

By Claire Applewhite

Will Bereswill is one of those people you swear you’ve known forever, even if you’ve only just met. With…

Sports Publishing has a published a number of titles about St. Louis sports teams, particularly the Cardinals. Some of those books were written by St. Louisans. Today, Publishers Weekly says the company has been having trouble paying some of the authors, although no…

It’s commonly known that in St. Louis there’s a scant 2 degrees of separation between people (rather than the famous “six degrees” that supposedly link everyone on Earth).
In literary St. Louis, it may be a single degree. That’s what struck…

The rumors are true: Left Bank Books will open a new downtown store, hoping to appeal to convention-goers, office workers and loft residents.

It will be at 10th Street and Locust -  officially 321 North 10th Street, says one of Left…

Bookfinder.com is an online search engine that says it can survey 150 million books for sale - new, used, rare, out-of-print, and textbooks.

It also keeps top 10 “best-seller” lists for out-of-print titles.

One hot biography is “Marilyn” by Norman Mailer. For…

Kansas City-area writers have won this year’s William Rockhill Nelson Awards. The awards are given by the city’s Writers Place and the Kansas City Star. Here’s the news from the Star, www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/759984.html:

Matthew Eck, Diane Glancy and Milton S. Katz are…

Jerry Springer isn’t known for his writing  — he’s more P.T. Barnum than Mark Twain. But he’s still the keynote speaker for this year’s St. Louis Jewish Book Festival.
The festival, which begins Nov. 2, requires every speaker to have published…