Recorded live and uncensored, LITOPIA AFTER DARK is a wide-ranging look at what’s new, hot or not in the worlds of writing, publishing, media and culture. We can be found live on Ustream at 8pm (GMT) on Friday evenings and there’s an opportunity watch the Podcast being made and make comments during the programme.
Today’s show is called Enantiodromia – (Greek: enantios, opposite + dromos, running course) is a concept introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung meaning the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its opposite. Thanks to Dave for the word of the week.
In this week’s extraordinarily named show, we have a very special guest, Karen Wenborn who is Managing Director of Classical Comics. Classical comics has a mission, to turn classics such as Shakespeare, Dickens and Bronte, books that young people often find boring, into cool comics that kids can’t wait to read. The Queen’s English Society has accused them of dumbing down. The panel discuss whether we should be outrageously happy or simply outraged that Shakespeare is getting the Spiderman treatment.
Sean Dodson reports in his Guardian Blog, that bestselling author Paolo Coelho has apparently been pirating his own work for years. The panel discuss the implications of giving your novel away free on the internet.
And finally, Publishing News is reporting that the head of Random House has announced that an e-book reader will be launched in the UK this year, and they are proposing a royalty for authors of just 15% of net receipts. This in turn means 85% for the Publisher. How can they justify this?
Joining resident host Peter Cox this week are panellists Donna Ballman, Berverly Gray and Dave Bartram.
