I know some people like to march to the beat of their own drum and aren’t really interested in what ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-18 13:30:00 UTC ]
Mere pages into Nesting, the debut novel from Roisín O’Donnell, Ciara Fay makes a life-altering decision. After discovering she’s pregnant for the third time, she takes her two young daughters, throws them and some hastily-gathered possessions in the car, and flees her emotionally abusive... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-18 12:05:00 UTC ]
Sophie Lewis chronicles the rise and fall of #girlboss feminism: “The funeral for ‘trickle-down feminism,’ eerily, keeps repeating itself, suggesting that, every time we report that the girlboss is dead, we’re being wishful.” | Lit Hub Criticism Rebecca Romney on unearthing a legacy of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 11:30:57 UTC ]
I have always loved Jane Austen, even though I have been very wrong about her. I remember the day I learned that Austen was not as original a writer as I had thought. I was reading a book called Evelina by Frances Burney. It was a novel Austen herself had read and loved: that’s why […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 09:58:45 UTC ]
Elyse Durham’s immersive and thematically timely first novel centers on twin sisters, born during the Siege of Leningrad, trained as ballet dancers at the celebrated Vaganova, and launching their careers at the height of the Cold War. The plot is set to detonate at a critical point in the Cold... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 09:57:15 UTC ]
Leading the UK Publishers Association's export services for more than 40 years, Gloria Bailey is to get the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award. The post Publishers Association’s Gloria Bailey: LBF’s Lifetime Achievement Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-18 06:46:46 UTC ]
The new imprint will look to acquire horror content that can work as both books and films. Forthcoming projects include the second novel by Marcus Kliewer, whose debut was acquired by Netflix, with Blake Lively set to star and produce. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
With two booksellers remaining under house arrest in Jerusalem, a coalition of publishers, booksellers, authors, industry professionals, and activists are marking #BooksellingIsNotACrime Day, on February 22, to raise awareness of their plight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
After 25 years with Simon & Schuster, the company's UK and International publisher and CEO, Ian Chapman, is to step down in May. The post S&S UK and International CEO Ian Chapman Stepping Down appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-17 18:48:19 UTC ]
Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding LondonDuring 2014, hundreds of photographers, amateurs and professionals, Londoners and tourists, snapped images of 58,000 London streets. The vast project – inspired by the novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-17 16:14:54 UTC ]
A major YA series and pop culture phenom turns 20 in style, big sci-fi books of 2025, a bookish reply all debacle, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-17 16:00:00 UTC ]
The actor’s book Freckleface Strawberry is on a list of library books suspended for a ‘compliance review’ after a presidential executive orderJulianne Moore has said it is a “great shock” to learn that one of her books had been “banned by the Trump Administration” from schools serving the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-17 14:15:45 UTC ]
Edward Underhill didn’t plan on having his debut adult fiction book, The In-Between Bookstore, featuring a trans main character, come out six days before the Trump inauguration, but it’s kind of perfect timing. Especially since the book features a time slip, where Darby Madden meets his younger... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2025-02-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
Rupert Murdoch’s second son reveals bitter details that set the scene for court battle for News Corp empireMore of the Murdoch family’s betrayals, leaks, “mind games”, manipulations, machinations and humiliations have been laid bare, in the wake of a messy court trial that offered tantalising... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-17 05:47:30 UTC ]
Former Boom! executives Megan Christopher, Allyson Gronowtiz, and Elyse Raimo have been named to top spots at Oni, among other hires and promotions at a time when some competitors in the comics space are downsizing their workforces. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
A group of eight independent publishers has formally incorporated as the Publishers Cooperative, a new organization aimed at leveraging collective buying power and sharing resources. Founding members include AdventureKEEN, Mountaineers Books, Gibbs-Smith, Schiffer Publishing, Mixed Media... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
The first major verdict in an AI copyright case in the U.S., the graphic novel boom is great for kids, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-02-16 16:00:00 UTC ]
The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-02-15 10:02:14 UTC ]
Rich Benjamin’s new book Talk to Me explores the coup that overthrew his grandfather, the president of Haiti, in 1957. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2025-02-15 10:00:00 UTC ]
Bologna's rights-business structure is evolving along with creative industries' growing engagement with book publishing. The post Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s Evolving Rights Hubs appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-15 01:29:36 UTC ]