Author of “The Complete, Annotated Mysterious Affair at Styles” with Agatha Christie and “Writers Gone Wild” a collection of 200 stories and anecdotes about great writers you didn’t learn in school. Tumblr (3.0; @peschel)http://peschel.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/45c1d8a2c7e030f3651b8b3872917780/tumblr_mmhk4dQl1o1qbcq4oo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Claire Messud is Deeply Sorry You Bought Her Last Book And Asks That You Don’t Buy Her New One</p><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/wp/2013/05/claire-messud-is-deeply-sorry-you-bought-her-last-book-and-wishes-you-didnt-buy-her-new-one/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/49936973125http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/49936973125Wed, 08 May 2013 11:24:13 -0400<blockquote><p>“The first time I saw a 73-page ‘book’ offered on Amazon, I was outraged,” says New York Times best selling author Michael Levin. “But I thought about how shredded the American attention span is. And I felt like Cortez staring at the Pacific.”</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/for-books-less-means-more/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48631981595http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48631981595Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:01:48 -0400<blockquote><p>Elaine Lee: “My own project, Harry Palmer: Starstruck, is a sci-fi noir graphic novel and the latest chapter in the Starstruck series I’ve been doing with artist Michael Kaluta, off and on, since the mid-1980s. We’d previously worked through publishers —…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/how-to-survive-kickstarting-your-book/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48629960694http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48629960694Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:33:51 -0400<blockquote><p>“After 12 years spent building and running book-related websites, I’ve learned a bit about selling books online. Here are some of the most frequent questions I get asked.”</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/how-to-sell-books-from-your-website/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48627766494http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48627766494Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:01:31 -0400<blockquote><p>During my talk, I shared some thoughts on the choices writers have today in publishing — thoughts which, judging from some of the Twitter comments I’ve seen, have caused a bit of upset here and there. One literary agent in the audience, Sorche Elizabeth…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/rant-why-agents-are-hating-on-barry-eisler/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48626135220http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48626135220Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:35:18 -0400<blockquote><p>Ferrell Tadlock, a clerk with the state Court of Appeals, donated several items related to Mississippi author Eudora Welty, including books, photographs, magazines and monographs.</p> <p>The collection, valued at more than $13,000, represents all of his…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/eudora-welty-items-donated-to-university/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48624197596http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48624197596Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:01:49 -0400<blockquote><p>David Gaughran: “Mamet is represented by a major literary agency – ICM Partners – who are just one of many agencies to have signed a deal with Perseus Books-owned Argo Navis. … They offer a portal through which authors’ work can be distributed to all the…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/rant-how-david-mamet-is-getting-ripped-off-by-his-agent/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48622802892http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48622802892Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:37:06 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/b2ceb3275a613572912691a86bca3840/tumblr_mlo21dmQci1qbcq4oo1_100.gif"/><br/><br/><p><big>‘Bobby Fisher’ Author’s Circuitous Path to Fiction</big></p><blockquote><p>Fred Waitzkin reflects on his journey to “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250011361/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1250011361&linkCode=as2&tag=planetpeschel-20">The Dream Merchant</a>“: “When I was a teenager, [my mother]…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/bobby-fisher-authors-circuitous-path-to-fiction/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48620911337http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48620911337Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:03:13 -0400<blockquote><p>Murakami’s “Shikisai wo Motanai Tazaki Tsukuru to, Kare no Junrei no Toshi” (Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage), his first novel in three years, hit bookstores on April 12.</p> <p>The novel refers to the “Years of Pilgrimage” piano pieces by…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/murakamis-new-novel-sends-readers-to-liszt/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48620020153http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48620020153Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:47:02 -0400<blockquote><p>E.L. Konigsburg, the author of the 1967 children’s book From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, about two children who run away from home to live secretly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, . She was 83. Konigsburg won two Newbery Medals,…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/rip-childrens-author-e-l-konigsburg/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48619565139http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48619565139Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:38:43 -0400<p>James Patterson Rants: Who Will Save Literature?</p><blockquote><p>Best-selling author whose books devalue great literary works takes out full-page ad in The New York Times Book Review: “If there are no bookstores, no libraries, no serious publishers with passionate, dedicated, idealistic editors, what will happen to our…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/patterson-rants-who-will-save-literature/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48617985356http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48617985356Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:09:09 -0400<blockquote><p>1. Treat it like a job</p> <p>For Gardner and other successful pulpsters, writing was a job, especially during the Depression. They had to eat. They didn’t have time to sit around the coffee bar ruminating about theories of literature. They actually had to…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/success-at-self-publishing-think-like-erle-stanley-gardner/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48616148542http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48616148542Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:33:41 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2ceb3275a613572912691a86bca3840/tumblr_mlnxtwkMtD1qbcq4oo1_100.gif"/><br/><br/><p>REVIEW | #neilhimself-Edited Anthology Unleashes Beasts</p><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/review-gaiman-edited-anthology-unleashes-beasts/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48616081267http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48616081267Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:32:20 -0400<blockquote><p>Your non-lit link of the day: the story of the first video game movie. Starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/the-weird-story-behind-super-mario-bros-the-movie/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48609828710http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48609828710Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:13:34 -0400<blockquote><p>“The article quotes Yan Feng, Fudan University professor and tech columnist, as saying he downloaded 50 titles, and some friends downloaded as many as 100 — or more than enough free reading for anyone for a year or more. Where’s the incentive to buy more…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/chinese-bookstores-gave-ebooks-away-for-free/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48609312039http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48609312039Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:00:22 -0400<blockquote><p><b>There has long been a perception that the typical New Yorker story involves adultery among the middle class. Are you happy to have perpetuated that tradition?</b></p> <p>The extravagant quantity and varying quality of illicit screwing, inside the middle class and…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/qna-joshua-ferris-on-overhearing-talk-and-the-new-york-adultery-story/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48608381601http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48608381601Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:35:35 -0400<p>GLADD bars Bret Easton Ellis from event honoring DOMA signer Clinton</p><blockquote><p>A spokesman for the gay media group vaguely confirms Ellis won’t be attending the Los Angeles media awards event honoring Bill Clinton (who approved “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” and the Defense of Marriage Act) because of his outrageous comments on Twitter.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/ellis-too-proud-for-glaad/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48607138281http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48607138281Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:01:13 -0400<blockquote><p>A Flavorwire one-page list. Blogger Emily Temple tries to make some humorous cracks but comes off as if she’s trying to get this out before happy hour opens at Bennigans.</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/10-absurd-reasons-behind-book-bannings/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48607132658http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48607132658Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:01:05 -0400<blockquote><p>HarperCollins Audience Development Director Jim Hanas: “Every piece of content – whether it’s an article in the New York Observer or a book from Ecco Press – has an audience of a certain size and is out there and audience development in my mind is the…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/qna-harpercollins-drive-to-find-readers/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48550128862http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48550128862Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:00:33 -0400<blockquote><p>The Internet has revolutionalised our lives and has certainly affected oral literature. It has not only led to creation of cyber folk groups, it has also enabled electronic transmission of oral literature. For instance, a popular pastime of diaspora…</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://planetpeschel.com/peschel_report/technology-helps-kenyas-oral-literature-tradition-thrive/">View Post</a></p>http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48546038119http://peschel.tumblr.com/post/48546038119Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:02:12 -0400