It’s difficult, perhaps, not to feel that this past month has felt longer than a typical January, its natural disasters, sudden shifts, and political upheavals making this month seem as though a whole year or more had already rushed by. As February approaches, there is an inevitable sense of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-30 09:55:43 UTC ]
Digital media company Hearst, home to editorial titles including Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and Country Living, named the marketing agency PMG as its agency of record on Tuesday. According to David Carey, its senior vice president of public affairs and communications, it is... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2025-01-30 08:16:11 UTC ]
Independent bookstores in more than 30 cities across six continents will participate in the first synchronized Global Bookstore Crawl on April 26, coinciding with Independent Bookstore Day in the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
Rucci has been named publisher of Scribner, effective February 24, succeeding Nan Graham, who will remain with the imprint in a new, as-yet-unnamed acquiring editorial role. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
We talked with the Riverhead editor-at-large—who is also on staff at the 'New Yorker'—about the challenges and rewards of bringing Chinese literature in translation to market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
The third volume in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series sold nearly 1.1 million copies of the deluxe edition and another 178,000 copies of the standard hardcover. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
On a frigid evening earlier this month, affection and appreciation warmed a children’s bookshop in the Western Massachusetts village of Florence, where 30 local children’s book creators came together to fete High Five Books' owner Lexi Walters Wright. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
In a decision some might call “stunning” or a “tour-de-force,” new S&S publisher Sean Manning has decided to no longer require authors to obtain blurbs for their books. Here’s why. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
Shapiro, IP children's editorial group manager at Sourcebooks and founding editorial director of the company's Wonderland imprint, died unexpectedly of undisclosed causes this past weekend. The company's top executives paid tribute to her on Wednesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
The new certification, intended to counteract the proliferation of AI-generated books in online marketplaces, involves a public database for authors and publishers to register their books as having been penned by humans and not AI. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild has set up an online portal for members to certify that their books “emanated from the human intellect” and not from artificial intelligence Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2025-01-30 00:38:02 UTC ]
The winners of this year's Youth Media Awards, influencers attempt to predict the next big book thing, Bookshop.org sells eBooks, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-29 16:00:00 UTC ]
Deep South, a small publisher with big influence, has expanded its website with easy-to-access information about its poets and their work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2025-01-29 14:06:41 UTC ]
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-01-29 14:00:47 UTC ]
The Day Before the Music Died to Premiere at the University of Oklahoma, by The Editors of WLT News and Events [email protected] Wed, 01/29/2025 - 07:51 World Literature Today’s director, RC Davis-Undiano, has written a play that is soon to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2025-01-29 13:51:04 UTC ]
Living a dream that's anything but, an icy sapphic enemies-to-lovers romance, and more of this week's stellar YA book releases. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-01-29 13:30:00 UTC ]
“Everyone writes about New York with so much tenderness, even when they are sick of it.” Kay Sohini discovers a literary New York (in graphic memoir). | Lit Hub Memoir Ruth Franklin on the connection between an obscure German noblewoman and Anne Frank: “One day, while I was looking over my... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-29 11:30:02 UTC ]
The following is from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini. _____________________________________ __________________________________ Excerpted from This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini. Copyright © 2025. Published by Ten Speed Press, an... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-01-29 09:57:59 UTC ]
After a brush with death pushed Othuke Ominiabohs to self-publish his novels, he realised there was a gap in the market for fresh African writingIn a hospital bed fearing his death was imminent, English teacher Othuke Ominiabohs thought ruefully of his four unpublished novels. “My biggest regret... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-01-29 07:00:39 UTC ]
An executive order to freeze all federal loans, grants, and other financial assistance has been halted for now, but the Institute of Museum and Library Services, National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies are preparing for potential cuts to their funding. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-29 05:00:00 UTC ]