Little, Brown and Company this morning unveiled the cover of J.K. Rowling's first post-Harry-Potter novel, The Casual Vacancy.

Good news for people who love the Harry Potter series but are maybe too old to be seen reading any of the books in public: J.K. Rowling is writing a novel for adults.

"You know you love me," Cecily von Ziegesar signs her Amazon review of her own latest book, the Gossip Girls series prequel It Had To Be You. And you know what? We kinda do, because Cecily has had the balls to risk biting the hand that feeds her by calling her publisher out on doing what sounds like a really incompetent job of publishing her book.

"For years we've sent agents biographical profiles of our editors every season along with our catalog," Little,Brown publisher Michael Pietsch (pictured!) says, by way of justifying his decision to make all his Hachette imprint's editors post online profiles on Publishers Marketplace. "The editors have a lot more room on the site to talk about what kinds of books they like, to describe some of their favorite moments, to include photos of their kids and cats." Kittypix are in short supply on the editors' current profiles, however. Some don't even choose to include the requisite headshot, leading us to wonder whether Asya Muchnick is hideously deformed or something! (J/k, she's cute.) In fact, the general dearth of personal information on these leads us to wonder whether the editors are so crazy about their boss's great idea.

People slated to write for Maer Roshan's new mag, Radar, include:
Jonathan van Meter, founding editor of Vibe; Jake Tapper, who wrote Down & Dirty for Little Brown about the Florida vote recount; Vanessa Grigoriadis, a contributing editor at New York; New Yorker contributor Mark Leyner; former Brill's Content media writer Katherine Rosman; and Toby Young, author of "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People." (Hmmm... Toby Young and Tina Brown contributing to the same magazine... Bets on how long before the first restraining order?)
Blender getting spun by numbers mix-up [Keith Kelly - Post]