Category: mailbag

Mailbag: Left Abe, Right Abe Makes Textbook Appearance

A representative of Oxford University Press writes requesting permission to use this image of Abe Lincoln (one of the 44 U.S. presidents better than the current one) in…

Mailbag: 10 Design Trends

I received an e-mail from Katie Smith of Creative Market calling my attention to their infographic on design trends of the past year. “f you feel this article…

Mailbag: NCBR (1616)

This is nice. While I was traveling I received this e-mail: Dear Tom Christensen, On behalf of the Northern California Book Reviewers (NCBR), I am delighted to tell…

Mailbag: A form query

I received the following e-mail: Within the last few months, I sent you a query regarding my book, [title redacted], which you kindly declined to represent. In the…

Mailbag: A book of idioms

Right ReadingĀ  received the following e-mail (slightly edited) from Jag Bhalla.

Mailbag: Bellemeade Books and Jonathan Williams

Mark Bromberg of Bellemeade Books writes on the subject of Jonathan Williams, author and publisher of the Jargon Society (we published his The Magpie’s Bagpipe at North Point…

Mailbag: Electric Literature 2 (and party)

Andy Hunter, Editor in Chief of Electric Literature, writes: I wanted to let you know we just released our 2nd issue, featuring work by Colson Whitehead, Lydia Davis,…

Mailbag: Press release promoting a resource for writers

Right Reading passes along the following e-mail unedited (except for removing the publicist’s e-mail address). This is a typical form for a book press release. The brief personalized…

Mailbag: What should my royalty rate be?

Rightreading hereby initiates a new feature (no doubt destined to be as fitful as all our others) in which we answer e-mails from readers. . A reader writes…