Last week sister magazine Publishers Weekly launched its newly redesigned website, including a new blog from its book review editors. (Don’t worry: our new website is coming shortly.)  Although we all work on the same floor, our busy editing and production schedules keep us from interacting on a personal level as often as we would like. So I am enjoying reading Kevin Howell’s personal trauma of reading 16 gay romances (who knew there was such a category!) for the Lambda Book Awards and Jonathan Seguera’s wry interpretation of bold new voices in fiction.(not!). 

My only minor quibble: the blog’s name: Notes from the Bookroom. Hello, we were here first! On the other hand, it’s not easy coming up with a unique blog name. (One LJ editor still thinks our name sucks.) Although titles can’t be copyrighted, fellow LJ book review editor Heather McCormack and I had a brief fantasy of duking it out with the PW editors for the ”bookroom” rights in the grand tradition of Will Ferrell’s Anchor Man news team rumble (Public Television: no commercials, no mercy!). Heather, you bring the trident, I’ll bring the net!

Check out the clip on YouTube.

Fortunately, cooler heads have prevailed and I say welcome fellow bloggers. The more we can join forces to promote the written word, the better the world will be.