Booksquare talks to Harper Collins’ Senior VP of Global Marketing Strategy and Operations about the publishers online initiatives. Included is this pearl from Booksquare herself:
Authors need to stop seeing the online world as seventh grade: just because everyone has this cool thing or that cool blog or their own pad in Second Life, it doesn’t mean that you have to do it, too.
Nevertheless, a good author interview is a good author interview. Earthgoat talks to Pen-Hemingway award nominee Rebecca Johns about her novel Icebergs and other stuff.
EG: You’ve had some odd jobs. Did they “build character” — or were they struggles you just wanted to get through?
RJ: You mean my stint at McDonald’s when I lived in Manhattan? I don’t know if that built character, but it certainly got me used to humiliation. After having hookers come in to laugh at you in your little hat and uniform, I have found that book critics just don’t seem as threatening.
And Miranda July shows that if an author goes with her instinct, even promotion can be fun.
