As anyone knows who’s read anything by the five authors on today’s diversity panel, none has ever shied away from controversy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Using graphic books to teach, or to lure a more visual reader to books, is nothing new, but "Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War," by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman, seems destined to resonate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sixty-five years ago, the first Peanuts comic strip, created by Charles Schulz, was published. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here at the Javits, love and romance are in the air—and at the Penguin Truck, which is parked outside the show floor and will be staffed today, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., by purveyors of passion on the page. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been more than 15 years since Judy Blume’s last novel for adults, Summer Sisters, was published, in 1998, so the publication of her new adult novel is a very big deal, what publishers like to call a rare “publishing event.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actress Julianne Moore and award-winning writer and illustrator Brian Selznick have more in common than writing books for children. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
After two decades and 400 million copies of Goosebumps books sold worldwide, R.L. Stine gets to talk about the series in a whole new way: as a major motion picture. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Don’t tell anyone,” confides bestselling author Brad Meltzer about today’s panel “Inside the Mystery Writer’s Studio,” in which he is participating with fellow superstars James Patterson and Nelson DeMille. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Think Candace Bushnell, and you think of actress Sarah Jessica Parker and her swirling pink tutu dress getting splattered with mud by a passing bus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
On Saturday, former 'Office' co-stars B.J. Novak and Mindy Kaling reunited on stage to kick off the second annual BookCon in front of a packed and boisterous crowd. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
At 1 p.m. today in Room 1A10, “Mixed Me: A Discussion with Taye Diggs and Shane Evans” will address more than just a new picture book. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fauzia Burke and Kristen Frantz offered an hour of genial and common sense advice about using social media to build your brand online. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ask most mothers of teenage daughters if they could imagine spending five days a week cooped up in an office for eight hours a day working on a project together for an entire summer, and the answers you would get might not be printable. Not so for bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who began a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Men and fashion? The well-dressed man? Just look around, and you’ll see that it’s a concept reserved for glossy magazines and red carpets, but rarely found in reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Check out this hyperlapse video we took of the huge line to get into BookCon this morning! Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Television 360, Endemol Shine Studios and publisher Diogenes are teaming up to bring Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley books to television. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown, Mitchell Beazley and Saltyard Books were winners at this year’s Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than half a century after he created The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster is here at BookCon to celebrate a new hardcover edition of the enduring classic. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has acquired the first novel written by Flashman author George Macdonald Fraser, Captain in Calico. The book will be published on 10th September, but throughout August, it will be available from Heywood Hill in Mayfair. Fraser was a longstanding customer at the shop, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apparently movies would suck without John Green, who is downright effusive about how the movie adaptation of his 2008 novel, "Paper Towns," turned out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]