Read more authors stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/35238/authors.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:32:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74031/google-offers-revised-digital-book-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGoogle offered a compromise deal with authors and publishers late yesterday, in an effort to overcome Justice Department objections to an earlier agreement and clear the way for distribution of millions of digital books online. Two months ago Justice had blocked a settlement in a lawsuit brought by authors and...http://www.newser.com/story/74031/google-offers-revised-digital-book-deal.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 14 Nov 2009 6:04:48 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/68093/modern-novels-shift-we-can-understand-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 21st-century novel is being reacquainted with an old friend: the plot. Today's best writers are abandoning the notion that literary novels need to be all but impenetrable to readers without advanced degrees, writes Lev Grossman in the Wall Street Journal . "The revolution is under way," he says. "The novel...http://www.newser.com/story/68093/modern-novels-shift-we-can-understand-them.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Aug 2009 10:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62632/weird-facts-about-best-selling-authors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSummer's here, and that means it's time for beach reading. Mental Floss compiles some surprising facts about the authors most commonly toted along to the shore: Dan Brown hasn’t spent his whole life pondering Vatican conspiracies: he was also a musician and pop singer. The name of his second album?...http://www.newser.com/story/62632/weird-facts-about-best-selling-authors.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 24 Jun 2009 17:54:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57491/antitrust-concerns-prompt-google-books-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFederal lawyers are looking into whether a Google Book Search agreement with authors and publishers may violate antitrust laws, the New York Times reports. The settlement of a 2005 suit allows Google to put millions of scanned books online, charge viewers to read them, and share revenues with both groups....http://www.newser.com/story/57491/antitrust-concerns-prompt-google-books-probe.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Apr 2009 9:56:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLyndon Johnson's biographer takes his work seriously—so much so, he didn't cover LBJ's presidency for 30 years, Newsweek reports. Rising from the tabloid world in the 1960s, Robert Caro first wrote a painstaking biography of New York mogul Robert Moses. Next came a volume on LBJ's youth; Caro even...http://www.newser.com/story/50250/lbj-biographer-aims-for-eternity.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Feb 2009 18:56:17 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49823/twilight-author-cant-write-worth-a-darn-king.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSorry, Stephenie Meyer, but Stephen King isn't among your millions of fans. The wildly successful horror author compared the wildly successful vampire author's Twilight series with JK Rowling's Harry Potter books in a recent USA Weekend interview: "The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie...http://www.newser.com/story/49823/twilight-author-cant-write-worth-a-darn-king.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 04 Feb 2009 8:45:31 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47282/need-a-blurb-meet-the-usual-suspects.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBlurbs for hot new writers' books unfailingly liken them to a handful of known quantities, Chris Rovzar observes in New York . Here are some of the most-abused blurb comparisons: F. Scott Fitzgerald or Edith Wharton. Writing about crumbling, decadent high society? "If you're a boy, you're Scott; if you're a...http://www.newser.com/story/47282/need-a-blurb-meet-the-usual-suspects.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44656/need-a-job-write-a-book-about-lincoln.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagLooking for a recession-proof job? Write a book about Abraham Lincoln, Joe Queenan advises in the Los Angeles Times . There are some 15,000 books about Lincoln already, and 50 more coming out next year. “As the very title Lincoln at Peoria suggests, there is literally no Lincoln-related subject too...http://www.newser.com/story/44656/need-a-job-write-a-book-about-lincoln.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 07 Dec 2008 19:25:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42182/widow-opens-up-about-ratty-dahl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTears reach Felicity Dahl's eyes as she walks to the work hut of her famous ex-husband, Roald. She's not alone, either: Director Tim Burton burst out crying when he saw it. "People have strong reactions to this house," said the widow of the acerbic scribe who wrote Charlie and the...http://www.newser.com/story/42182/widow-opens-up-about-ratty-dahl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 09 Nov 2008 18:14:47 CST