• I neither read nor care about blurbs on book covers, so I had no idea they were such pains-in-the-you-know-what to procure.
  • The Women on the Web (ladies of a certain age with a ridiculous URL) have a book section
  • HarperCollins reports 3% sales increase for fiscal year ended June 30 compared with the same period a year earlier.
  • How can authors balance writing and building their brands?
  • Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose memoir, The Beautiful Struggle, is on my To Be Read list, is blogging about politics and sundry matters at TheAtlantic.com.
  • Apparently, there’s a mini-boom in books about the Salem Witch Trials (psst, black novelists, here’s a chance to hop on that Tituba story).
  • The 5th annual Black Writers Reunion & Conference will be June 18-19 at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They’re looking for proposals for seminars and workshops for the conference.