December
17
September
11
HarperCollins to start SF Imprint
From Publisher’s Lunch, September 11, 2008:
“Harper UK is starting a new science fiction imprint, Angry Robot, launching in July 2009. Former publisher of Games Workshop’s Solaris and Black Library imprints Marc Gascoigne is running the new line, reporting to managing director Amanda Ridout. Taking a place alongside Harper’s Voyager imprint, the new label “will be building the next wave of authors,” Gascoigne says. They plan to sell print and digital versions directly from their website in addition to standard retail channels.”
It is so fantastic to see SF getting the nod it deserves.
Also, does anyone know where I might get this bookshelf?
July
2
More on True Blood!
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Haha! Get it?
Well, there’s lots of good news for people like me who are eagerly awaiting the premiere of True Blood, the HBO series based on the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire novels by Charlaine Harris
While HBO is still keeping sightings of the actual show footage very quiet there’s officially a viral campaign now. What I want to know is why the mysterious letter and TruBlood sample mails seem to have gone out to people who have no clue what TruBlood, True Blood or the southern Vampire series is. Ah, HBO, this I think was a mistake. Fan girls would have been… well sitting on their computer way to late at night writing blog-love letters to the series and squeeing if they’d been included in the mailings. I’ve already offered to pay one completely uninterested party for her mailings. They aren’t even up on ebay.
Anyway, there’s a new video available on io9 that’s part of the vampires’ “coming out press conference”. TruBlood (the synthetic blood that lets the vampires come out of the coffin–get it?–has a web presence as well. Available there are all kinds of digital goodies, including ads like the one above, desk top backgrounds, IM icons and more. And now you can officially keep up with everything, as long as you don’t mind the sometimes cheesy lingo at BloodCopy, the True Blood (er, the show, not the product) blog.
So now we can get really excited and start making fools of ourselves at all the slick graphics and funny in jokes. (We all remember our first “Hey I got that one!!”)
*I’m not sure if HBO really wants other people using their graphics, but this entry is just one big promo for True Blood and this is a viral marketing campaign, so I’m pretty sure my little fan girl squee here is entirely welcome.