Whatever happened to how-to-books? Pretty much decimated by the internet, says Peter, but strong brands in this area still survive, and there are good reasons for not burying this once-great publishing sector quite yet. In today’s Write Report, Donna reports on a campaign that’s started in Japan to allow real-life people to marry comic book characters. That’s unreal, fictional, two–dimensional comic book characters. Get a grip, people, and step away from the comic book right now. And our obligatory Halloween story: an author/fireman is thrown out of his church after writing a book disproving the existence of Satan. Do they still burn heretics? In Eve’s Salmagundi Club, she examines a website that covers the, er, covers of young adult and children’s books – there’s a clear suspicion that publishers in this category are trying to make their books look and feel more grown-up than previously, in the hope of catching the crossover market.
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