Morning Brief — Monday, August 4

I was going to trawl through my RSS reader this weekend to find some juicy publishing stories to blog about, but I ended up spending a good part of yesterday trying to fix my iPhone (twice as long as it took me to run 20 miles, in fact).  Now that’s just wrong.  Hope everyone had a good weekend.

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There’s been lots of talk about book trailers lately and about whether they’re worth doing.  Today, Publishers Weekly reports that St. Martin’s book trailer for the paranormal romance Acheron has landed on YouTube’s most viewed list (with 113,000 views).  Make that 113,001.  So that’s what paranormal romance is …