‘Love is Greater Than AIDS’ (R&L, Apr.), a memoir by the late Rev. A. Stephen Pieters, describes his watershed interview with Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985 as well as decades of AIDS activism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
From a look at how bestselling novelist Colleen Hoover is fueling interest in contemporary Christian fiction to interviews with evangelical superstars David Platt and Beth Moore, here are PW’s most-read religion stories of 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Pursuing its strategy of seeking to further leverage IP, China Literature, China's dominant online publishing and e-book company, has bought Tencent Animation and Comics for 600 million yuan (US$83.6 million). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Author Omid Arabian aims to bring a lesson on mysticism, interconnectedness, and peace to young readers in a new picture book, ‘You Are Everything’ (Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, out now), which was inspired by the ancient poet Rumi. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Collins execs reveal the pope's hands-on touch from the cover choice to the marketing goals for 'Life, My Story Through History.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-13 05:00:00 UTC ]
Hay House, founded by the late Louise Hay and acquired by Penguin Random House, has offices in Australia, India, the States, and UK. The post Penguin Random House Acquires Self-Help Publisher Hay House appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-12-13 03:58:01 UTC ]
A debut author who used fake accounts to “review bomb” other writers on the influential online platform Goodreads has been dropped by her agent and had her book deal cancelled Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-12-13 02:46:01 UTC ]
The father of Jeffrey Dahmer, he wrote a memoir that one reviewer said sought to “peer not just into the soul of his son but into his own.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2023-12-13 00:00:21 UTC ]
First-time author Cait Corrain has apologized on X and announced she is going to rehab after losing her book deal and agent for 'review bombing' on Goodreads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 22:43:34 UTC ]
Strange Scrawls, by Connor Lee McLean Creative Nonfiction [email protected] Tue, 12/12/2023 - 16:11 Photo courtesy of the authorReading a secondhand copy of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, a reader encounters another consciousness in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2023-12-12 22:11:51 UTC ]
On Dec. 12, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick talks about life on the road at the L.A. Times Book Club. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 20:24:33 UTC ]
England's merged Cambridge University Press & and Assessment reports record revenues and numbers of users in 2022-2023. The post Year End: Cambridge University Press Reports Record £1 Billion in Revenue appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-12-12 20:15:01 UTC ]
The new Nero Book Awards is a very similar contest to the Costa Book Awards, which bowed out after 50 years in June 2022. The post Another Cup of Coffee: The UK’s Nero Book Awards’ Shortlists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-12-12 19:02:27 UTC ]
US trade revenue was down 0.1 percent year-to-date, and down 0.4 percent for the month of September YTD, in the AAP's StatShot report. The post AAP’s September StatShot: US Book Market Up 0.8 Percent YTD appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2023-12-12 16:24:19 UTC ]
“Each of these portraits is, as advertised and expected, profoundly ‘humane.’” Gideon Lewis-Kraus recommends Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama. | Lit Hub Criticism The 138 best book covers of 2023, as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. | Lit Hub Design... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-12 11:30:34 UTC ]
Comic book fans (and some creators) too often use nostalgia as a cudgel, but that doesn't mean it has to be the industry's kryptonite. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-12-12 11:30:00 UTC ]
Governments and outside organizations can do a lot to preserve collections when disaster is looming. Even so, a part of human identity is erased with each library bombed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 11:00:34 UTC ]
Where exactly is tech going? Joanne McNeil's debut novel 'Wrong Way' and billionaire Marc Andreessen's 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' offer some clues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 11:00:26 UTC ]
Generative AI stretches our current copyright law in unforeseen and uncomfortable ways. In the US, the Copyright Office has issued guidance stating that the output of image-generating AI isn’t copyrightable, unless human creativity has gone into the prompts that generated the output. This ruling... Continue reading >> [ Source: O'Reilly Radar | 2023-12-12 10:54:00 UTC ]
For what is now the eighth time in a row, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 46 designers to share their favorite covers of the year, and they came back with a grand total of 138 covers […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-12 09:55:10 UTC ]