Award-winning British author Mal Peet died Monday, March 2 following a brief illness. He was 67. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lisa Bruce spent years working on the film, The Theory of Everything, before convincing the author to sell the rights to the original memoir. The post How to Make A Big Bang in Book-to-Film appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir will reportedly be adapted as a film that will be directed by Steven Spielberg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The CEO of Australia's Hardie Grant Publishing urges independent publishers to embrace “transformational solutions” to stay profitable in the years to come. The post How Independent Publishers Can Stay Profitable appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Toby Mundy, the founder and former c.e.o. of Atlantic Books, is to become the first director of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. Meanwhile submission deadlines for publishers will change to “accommodate the timelines and deadlines of the publishing calendar”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christian books wholesaler and retailer CLC International is to move its warehouse to larger premises in Chester and take on more staff, following a boost to business. Meanwhile online retailer Eden.co.uk will also join CLC on its new premises. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic has signed a book by former Chess world champion and Russian pr-democracy leader Garry Kasparov. Senior editor James Nightingale acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, to Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must be Stopped in a deal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has bought a debut novel by Scholastic Books’ employee David Sanger. Editor Richard Arcus bought world rights, excluding the US, to All Their Minds in Tandem from Becky Thomas at Fox Mason. All Their Minds in Tandem takes place in New Georgetown, West Virginia, in October 1879, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Japanese cooking competitions to fine French restaurants, baking bread and vegetarian dishes, we've put together a tasty list of 13 great comics about all kinds of food and cooking. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Andrew Motion, Imtiaz Dharker, Alice Oswald, Patience Agbabi and Carrie Etter have been shortlisted for the Poetry Society's Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014. The £5,000 award seeks to recognise excellence in new poetry and highlight exciting and outstanding contributions made by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Minneapolis literary nonprofit is Brooklyn-based Emily Books to launch the Emily Books imprint. The partnership, according to Coffee House's Chris Fischbach, is paving the way for Emily Books co-founders, Emily Gould and Ruth Curry, to eventually launch their own press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press (OUP) is sponsoring an African literacy conference in South Africa this September. The conference is organised by the Reading Association of South Africa (RASA), a literacy group, in association with the International Literacy Association (ILA) and the International... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Creative Scotland is providing £100,000 funding to support 10 full-time, year-long traineeships across the creative industries. The programme aims to support the employment prospects for people aged 20-30 who are interested in developing a career in the arts and culture industries. It will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A busy publication schedule drove change across all the major Bookseller charts last week, with titles from James Patterson, David Walliams, Jeffrey Archer and Helen MacDonald all chalking up number ones in their first week of sale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Having been turned down by his long-standing publisher Hanser Verlag, dark comedy finds home with Kein and AberMartin Amis’s latest novel, The Zone of Interest, has finally found a German-language home six months after it was turned down by his long-standing German publishing house, thought by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scouting agency Maria B. Campbell Associates is expanding its London office, adding three new clients, all houses within the Netherlands-based VBK Group: Atlas Contact, Kosmos Personal Growth and Ten Have. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Granta Books has signed two books from New Yorker writer Wendell Steavenson. Laura Barber signed rights from Anna Webber at United Agents, on behalf of Bill Clegg at the Clegg Agency, following an auction. The two books are Three Days in Paris, an on-the-ground account of the Charlie Hebdo... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.K. publishers are employing a number of tactics to garner Facebook traffic. Digiday spoke to five of the UK publishers in the top 10 to receive traffic from the social network -- and learned a few tricks. Having engineered its sites for mobile -- and consequently, social -- six of Trinity... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has signed a "major" biography of Irish independence leader, Éamon de Valera. World rights to Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power by Ronan Fanning were signed from Jonathan Williams at the Jonathan Williams Literary Agency in Dublin. Fanning is professor emeritus of modern history at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twitter on Monday began giving publishers the ability to embed Twitter video on their sites, meaning YouTube and Facebook now have some new competition in the category. Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]