Bestselling author Joan Holub shares her expertise at storyboarding picture books and graphic novels, with both authors and illustrators. The post Storyboarding for Writers: How Sketching Can Strengthen Your Picture Book or Graphic Novel! appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist and acclaimed author Anna Quindlen has sold her longtime Upper West Side home after almost three decades, records show.Quindlen—whose novels include her first, 1991's Object Lessons, and her latest, 2024's After Annie—parted ways with the 5-story... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2025-04-17 09:30:00 UTC ]
On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, two acclaimed authors who have written about the conflict and its consequences discuss their writers who shaped them. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning television writer Matt Goldman shares 10 things he's learned about writing over the years. The post 10 Things I’ve Learned About Writing From Being a Stand-Up Comic and in the Writer’s Room of Emmy Award-Winning TV Shows appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-04-17 02:20:28 UTC ]
Dwayne Johnson is working with investigative journalist Nick Bilton on the project, with a film in the pipeline starring Emily Blunt and Leonardo DiCaprio The actor Dwayne Johnson, who began his career as wrestler The Rock, is to co-author a nonfiction book about a Hawaii crime syndicate in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-14 11:56:16 UTC ]
BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled authors are writing some of the most thought-provoking, original, and memorable literary fiction works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-04-14 11:45:00 UTC ]
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, his son said Sunday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-04-14 02:33:00 UTC ]
Crystal Maldonado, Julie Murphy, and other authors discuss the importance of joyful representation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Last week the literary agent and soon-to-be author Alia Hanna Habib asked me how I’ve used my experience in the literary world to be a “good author” (my book comes out in July). Yes, this is a brag, because as someone who’s worked in and around the publishing industry for a couple of decades,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-04-10 09:58:17 UTC ]
The awards—which since 1985 have bestowed more than $10 million on early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama—were announced at a ceremony at the New York Historical on April 9. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
A prolific magazine writer and the author of seven books of nonfiction and two novels, Kornbluth cofounded Bookreporter.com, one of the first online destinations for books coverage, in 1996. He died on April 3. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI modelsAuthors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-03 07:00:26 UTC ]
Mohr, who translated such German novelists as Alina Bronsky, chronicled the Berlin music scene in a 2018 book, and helped bring to life a number of musicians’ memoirs, died at his home in Brooklyn on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Mohr, who translated such German novelists as Alina Bronsky, chronicled the Berlin music scene in a 2018 book, and helped bring to life a number of musicians’ memoirs, died at his home in Brooklyn on March 31. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Smith's book series was adapted for a hit teen TV show, which ran for eight years until 2017. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2025-03-28 12:21:49 UTC ]
Ahead of the Black British book festival, literary figures say the number of books being published by Black writers has ‘plummeted’UK publishing is less accessible to Black authors now than it was five years ago, according to some of the biggest names in the industry.The Black Lives Matter... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-03-26 17:06:01 UTC ]
Dennis McDougal, a former L.A. Times reporter and bestselling author of over a dozen books, including a biography of Otis Chandler, dies after car accident. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-03-26 15:54:43 UTC ]
TAICCA and Taipei International Book Exhibition Foundation present a new pavilion and author-illustrators at Bologna. Sponsored. The post Taiwan: Authors, Rights Trading, and a Picnic at Bologna appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-03-24 22:58:46 UTC ]
Indie romance novelist Theodora Taylor gets candid about what she loves about indie publishing and how she grabs readers from the first page. The post Indie Author Spotlight: Theodora Taylor appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2025-03-21 16:10:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award winner remembers drinking with John Berger and the PEN/Hemingway Award winner recounts the joys of reading Halldor Laxness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-19 04:00:00 UTC ]