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We've been gone awhile here at LiveJournal (since 2009, a quick check tells me). Since then we've officially become an imprint and launched a new, improved site at smartpopbooks.com.

We're posting a new full essay from our backlist every day, along with pieces from new titles like Inside Joss' Dollhouse, The Psychology of Dexter, and Filled With ( Read more... )

Our latest Smart Pop title, In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural, is officially released today!

Get more details and read an excerpt-- plus the finalist essays from our Smart Pop/Supernatural.tv essay contest from last winter-- at the link above.

Find it from us, or Amazon.com, or anywhere else books are sold!

Hey, I wanted to let you guys know about a contest teenlibris.com is running this month, where they're giving away copies of Scott Westerfeld's new book on the Uglies series, Bogus to Bubbly, plus Uglies series t-shirts and copies of the full Uglies series.  The details are at http://www.teenlibris.com/contests.html.

They also have a preview of ( Read more... )

I'm of two minds about Wal-Mart, personally, but both of those minds were amused by Wal-Mart Watch's "Harry Potter and the Evil Lord Waldemart" video: watch it here, if you haven't already. Worth it alone for the moment between "Hermione" and "Ron" on the bridge; it's always nice when groups are clearly also fans of the thing they're spoofing.

A little article on a few of our books by an interesting little Web mag I'd never heard of before. Again, I'm reminded how much bigger than me the Internet is.

. . . this might be the place to get it! (I'm . . . overwhelmed by the options.)

I never watched The Sopranos, which is probably why it took me so long to find this: The Long Con, a great piece on the show that makes me wish we were doing a Sopranos book just so we could reprint it. If you haven't read it, I'd recommend it, whether you watched the show or not.

Read about the latest Save VM campaign

Really nice little post from Whitney Matheson over at Pop Candy on Neptune Noir. Both it and Coffee at Luke's are off to great starts, sales-wise-- thanks, you guys! I think this means I get to keep my job. :)