DC native/fan. Montreal. Harlem. Director of Publishing Partnerships @openroadmedia, a digital publisher and multimedia content company.

Laurie Abkemeier: Deal Announcement

laurieabkemeier:

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Action bowling historian Gianmarc Manzione’s PIN ACTION: Small-time Gangsters, High-Stakes Gambling, and the Teenage Hustler who Became a Bowling Champion, set in gritty 1960s and ’70s New York when young men faced off for thousands of dollars a night and would do anything to win, and…

Small press big results. Way to go. 

mttbll:

Great news: I found out this evening that IN THE HOUSE UPON THE DIRT BETWEEN THE LAKE AND THE WOODS is an official Indie Next selection for July. Thanks so much to all the bookstores and booksellers who nominated the book!

Awesome

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Maud Newton: We’re here to talk about The Liars’ Gospel, which is a great, great book, but first, if I understand this correctly: you were just in Cuba with Margaret Atwood?

Naomi Alderman: We climbed up into the mountains where Che Guevara hid during the Cuban Missile Crisis to see the Cuban Solitaire (a bird); we took boats through the Zapata Swamp; and our bus broke down on the way from the Zapata Swamp at a police checkpoint where Margaret Atwood and I sat on the steps and talked about God.

MN: Oh, to be a gecko on the wall! What else did you talk about?

NA: My new novel is…well, I have bitten the bullet and admitted that it is a feminist science fiction novel of the 1970s and ’80s, of the kind people wrote a lot then, but don’t seem to anymore.

I love Naomi Alderman.  (via maudnewton)

I love Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman. 

openroadmedia: We’re thrilled to have this golden guy as the latest member of the Open Road family! Congrats to our Digital Entertainment team, who were honored by the Telly Awards in the Digital Video category for their “Meet James Salter.” Watch the winning video here. Damned good looking workers you got there

openroadmedia:

We’re thrilled to have this golden guy as the latest member of the Open Road family!

Congrats to our Digital Entertainment team, who were honored by the Telly Awards in the Digital Video category for their “Meet James Salter.”

Watch the winning video here.

Damned good looking workers you got there

crucify-the-fire: This book is revolutionizing my mind. Absolutely stunning to read about all these gay writers, and how they spoke out in a period where homosexuality was shameful and thought to be a mental illness. While I’m reading this, it’s like meeting friends. New favorite. Such an inspiring book. And the winner of the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction at the Publishing Triangle Awards tonight

crucify-the-fire:

This book is revolutionizing my mind. Absolutely stunning to read about all these gay writers, and how they spoke out in a period where homosexuality was shameful and thought to be a mental illness. While I’m reading this, it’s like meeting friends. New favorite. Such an inspiring book.

And the winner of the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction at the Publishing Triangle Awards tonight

NetGalley Roundup: LGBT Titles

Some incredible LGBT titles newly available for review. Jane Rule’s Desert of the Heart and Martin Duberman’s Stonewall are just two of many coming out as digital books for the first time.