This new wave of thinking means that Hollywood development deals would now be included in the publishing deal, instead of waiting until after the book has been published. Who knows if this film-oriented end goal will muddy the publication process, or bring it to a higher level? Only time (and some well-paid marketing/PR gurus) will be able to tell….

Read the entire article HERE.

Do you have a YA book that’s ripe for publishing (and the cineplex)? Why not send a query letter to Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers? The sooner you send your work out, the sooner you’ll be going straight from your book signing to your premiere. WordHustler wants to help you get a big ol’ piece of the success pie.

Records. 8-Tracks. Laser discs. As technology marches on, the accessories constantly evolve. Remember cassette tapes? Neither do most people…unless you’re a lover of books on tape. But now even audio-novels have evolved into books on CD. What does this mean for those beloved little plastic and ribbon beasts? The New York Times was present at a funeral for the hard-working but outdated cassette tape, held at Hachette Publishing. The cassette tape is survived by its older brother, the compact disc, who himself has not been looking well ever since the advent of MP3s.

Read the full article on the New York Times HERE.

Do you have a novel you’d like to one day become a book on tape…er, CD…um, downloaded/read on Kindle/beamed directly into readers’ brains?  Why not take the first step towards glory by sending a query letter to a fiction publisher like Overlook Press? Your words. Their eyeballs. They should meet. WordHustler wants to help! Yay!