The Fort Smith, Ark.–based small press is committed to publishing books by Mid-South writers that are accessible to readers everywhere. Publisher Casie Dodd hopes that its newly inked distribution deal with IPG will help make this goal a reality. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
Numerous activities and events at the ALA annual conference addressed the problem of book bans. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Music artists say the bundle is ‘cheating’ the royalties system while authors have concerns about how streaming will affect how they’re paid and rights over their workAudio streaming giant Spotify, one of the world’s largest audio platforms, entered the audiobook market last October, offering... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-07-02 03:23:25 UTC ]
Royal told to attempt to retrieve messages, which judge says may be relevant to his legal battle with NGNThe Duke of Sussex has been ordered to explain why messages with his ghostwriter were destroyed after the publication of his memoir Spare when they could be relevant to his legal battle with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-28 08:45:03 UTC ]
Kimmerer's 'The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World' will be published by Scribner on November 19. Her breakout hit 'Braiding Sweetgrass,' which has sold over 2 million copies, was published in 2013 by Milkweed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
Two writers discuss the literary forebears who directly inspired their latest novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Last fall, around the time Britney Spears’s memoir The Woman in Me was published, I went to the Brooklyn stop of Liz Phair’s 30th anniversary tour for her debut album Exile in Guyville. Exile is one of the epochal albums of the 1990s, a Gen X classic; it came out when I was a freshman […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-26 08:56:16 UTC ]
The group's 1,500 members from all 50 states aim to provide “support and encouragement for the educators, librarians, parents, and students who are the first line of defense against censorship, and for the authors whose books are under attack.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
Former UFC and WWE champion Ronda Rousey will publish her first graphic novel next year. She said it's somewhat autobiographical, 'even though it didn't really happen.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2024-06-25 14:14:00 UTC ]
Shani Gonzales of Warner Chappell says that although people are ‘having fun’ with creating AI songs, ‘what happens when someone tries to sell it?’Arriving in London in the teeth of the pandemic to take a top music industry job, Shani Gonzales had few opportunities to immerse herself in British... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-25 13:00:26 UTC ]
Wind, who is also chief content officer at the Indie Book Publishers Association, is creating a limited collector's edition of his latest YA novel, initially published this spring by Chicago Review Press, as an incentive for donors to his Kickstarter campaign benefitting LGBTQ+ teens. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Before he began to write, John Cheever put on a three-piece suit and took the elevator from his Manhattan apartment down to the basement, where he took off his jacket and tie, and then began. Hemingway famously needed a drink to loosen him up. Pulitzer Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver has said,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-06-24 08:55:40 UTC ]
In a post celebrating its first 100 days in business, upstart publishing venture Authors Equity announced its first 10 author signings—an eclectic list that includes James Frey, Rachel Hollis, and Kyle Mills, with four books set to be published in 2024. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Plus: an auction in support of a more diverse publishing workforce, a YA anthology to fight book bans, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-06-11 15:00:00 UTC ]
In which Robin Sloan writes Moonbound—a science fiction book about science fiction—and our writer writes his way into total insanity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-06-11 11:00:00 UTC ]
Restaurateur Josh Niland and recipe developer Hetty Lui McKinnon scoop prizes in food publishing awards, which also honoured aid worker Zomi FrankcomGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo Australian cookbook authors have won prizes in this year’s James Beard Foundation awards, dubbed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-11 07:21:43 UTC ]
After the author events planning team at the Free Library of Philadelphia was fired on June 3, some of the authors scheduled to appear there this month are expressing their support for the former employees—some quietly, others publicly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Writers say investments in book promotion to augment publishers’ in-house staff are key to successKatherine Reay has written a dozen novels. When The Berlin Letters, her most recent, hit the shelves earlier this year, she embarked upon a 30-stop promotional book tour.“I love the personal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-06-07 11:30:48 UTC ]
The work of late queer author Fritz Peters has fallen off the radar and out of print—leaving room for a small Los Angeles production company to pick up rights to the books, reissue five of them, and fast track the process of adapting them into films. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
More than 380 authors, publishing houses, and advocacy groups have signed an open letter protesting "vague and overbroad" new South Carolina education standards, slated to take effect on June 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-04 04:00:00 UTC ]