Bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne discusses using small-town settings to deepen character connections, including tips for enhancing settings. The post The Heart of the Story: Using Small-Town Settings to Deepen Character Connections appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-06-03 20:32:38 UTC ]
The former prime minister, who led New Zealand through the pandemic, has published a memoir arguing for more empathy in politics. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-06-03 14:35:35 UTC ]
More Americans indicate being "very interested" in audiobooks in 2025 than the previous year, plus other sales and listenership data from a new survey. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-06-03 13:29:39 UTC ]
Get ready for literary fiction set in Iran, a graphic memoir by a queer icon, a "toxic lesbian vampire" novel by a fantasy giant, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-06-03 13:00:00 UTC ]
There's the latest novel by poet Ocean Vuong, an indie, coming-of-middle-age Indigenous tale, a look at the cost of patriarchy, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-06-03 12:30:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto reimagines Disney's Mulan as a contemporary romance about family expectations, mistaken identity, and high stakes ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-06-03 10:02:00 UTC ]
Efforts raise questions about the far right’s place in the broader culture wars waged by the Trump administration The far right US publisher Passage Press is now part of Foundation Publishing Group and it is connected via a Foundation director, Daniel Lisi, to Network Press, whose only title to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-06-03 10:00:33 UTC ]
The author of “The LGBTQ+ Travel Guide” on the reasons the travel publishing giant chose a coffee-table book and how she picked the people and places to feature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-06-03 09:00:23 UTC ]
Susan Choi’s eerie, multi-generational transcontinental mystery saga Flashlight, her fifth novel (after the National Book Award winning Trust Exercise) evolves from a short story published in The New Yorker in August 2020. My first questions in our email exchange: How did the pandemic influence... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-06-03 08:59:26 UTC ]
Digital audio accounted for 99 percent of 2024's US audiobook revenues, per newly released survey results. The post Audio Publishers Association: US Audiobook Sales Reach $2.22 Billion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-06-03 07:20:31 UTC ]
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with itThe novelist Ewan Morrison was alarmed, though amused, to discover he had written a book called Nine Inches Pleases a Lady. Intrigued by the limits of generative artificial intelligence (AI), he had... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-06-03 04:00:21 UTC ]
The 11th annual Bay Area Book Festival took place May 31-June 1 in downtown Berkeley, and featured 275 speakers and 120 exhibitors. The event included author presentations, writers workshops, and the Bookworm Block Party, where exhibitors offered their services and displayed wares. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Employees of the Brooklyn bookstore and literary hub have won voluntary union recognition from management and will begin contract negotiations in the coming weeks, joining the growing number of booksellers organized under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
More Than Words is a bookstore, but one that does more than sell $3.8 million worth of merchandise a year. It serves young people who are dealing with homelessness or legal challenges and gives them a place where they belong. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2025-06-02 20:42:21 UTC ]
For Metallica's Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band's ongoing M72 world tour. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-06-02 10:00:00 UTC ]
Memoir Nation: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is an extension of the Memoir Nation community hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner, two friends and colleagues who bring a community-minded sensibility to the writing journey. Originally launched as Write-minded in 2018, this is a weekly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-06-02 08:00:53 UTC ]
The powerhouse evangelist—the author of more than 100 nonfiction titles and a consistent presence across radio and television—turns to fiction, launching a series of novels set in end times as prophesied in the Bible. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
At a May 29 Section 341 meeting of creditors in Albert Whitman’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition, attorneys questioned the company’s owners on their stated reasons for the filing, while authors complained of recurring issues with royalty statements. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
With The Girl Who Baptized Herself, the feminist theologian offers a new approach to the teachings of early Christianity by looking at Thecla, a once-revered female saint whose story was cut from the New Testament. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
AudioFile has named the three winners of its annual Golden Voice awards, which honors voice actors who have made significant contributions to audiobook publishing. The recipients are Vikas Adam, Kimberly Farr, and Hillary Huber. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]