A selection of notable adult and children’s authors to meet at the institute, whose books are due out between now and the end of 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Canadian university professor's book is back on the best-seller list after a decade, thanks to tell-all Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Illustrator Lane Smith and author Ruta Sepetys, winners of the 2017 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway children’s book awards, are to jointly donate £1,000 to North Kensington Library, the closest library to Grenfell Tower. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
'A four-month programming project ended up taking two years,' as Iguana Books publisher Greg Ioannou says. Once expected to be a new base of operation for Pubslush, his Toronto-based author services crowdfunding company PubLaunch is to open this month. The post Can Crowdfunding Author Services... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
British Book Award organizers have added an Author of the Year and Illustrator of the Year honor to the list of 'Nibbies,' as well as a new audiobook category to the Books of the Year division. The post British Book Awards Announce New Honors for Illustrators, Authors, Audiobooks appeared first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Brontë expert has resigned in protest of the appointment of supermodel and activist Lily Cole as a patron for the Brontë Society. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ABA, Authors Guild, and National Coalition Against Censorship have issued separate statements condemning a cease and desist letter sent to Henry Holt by a lawyer for President Trump demanding that the publisher stop publication of Michael Wolff's White House tell-all. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Waterstones branch is dedicating its ‘Staff Recommends’ bay to female writers to celebrate the 'Year of Publishing Women'. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has paid tribute to the late American crime writer Sue Grafton as "a giant in her field" and "an amazing author" who "cared about her readers first and last". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
US mystery writer Sue Grafton, creator of the Alphabet series of novels featuring PI Kinsey Millhone, has died at the age of 77. She had been suffering from cancer. Pan Macmillan publisher Jeremy Trevathan told The Bookseller: "Sue Grafton was one of the bedrock authors of the Pan Macmillan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
I’m not surprised sales of literary fiction are in decline – too many authors fail to engage their readers with any sort of story• Tim Lott is an author and journalistFollowing the announcement from Arts Council England that sales of literary fiction are plummeting, it is suggested that arts... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A working class writers’ collective has formed in response to author Kit de Waal’s “powerful call to arms” to see more such voices represented in literature, with Carmen Marcus and Kerry Hudson among its members. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has distributed more than £140,000 between 61 authors to help support them in the development and completion of new work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kristen Roupenian, the author of “Cat Person,” a fiction piece in The New Yorker that became a viral phenomenon, has agreed to a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Matthew Salesses' wife, Cathreen, was diagnosed with cancer in March, not long after the birth of their second child. Now, friends and colleagues in the Asian American writing community are offering literary rewards in a GoFundMe campaign to support the family. Author Margaret Rhee... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Farrar, Straus & Giroux is the latest party to call for the immediate release of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer and academic, who has been imprisoned in a maximum security prison in Cameroon following the publication of an article critical of government repression in the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The debut book from Kristen Roupenian, whose New Yorker short story “Cat Person” went viral far beyond the scope of most short fiction when it was published earlier this month, has been sold to British publisher Jonathan Cape, the Guardian reports. Roupenian's short story collection, “You Know... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Rooster Bar' author John Grisham sinks his teeth into a juicy target: privately owned, for-profit law schools Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Following her viral short story hit, Kristen Roupenian’s You Know You Want This has been sold to Cape in the UK, with the US auction said to be topping $1mKristen Roupenian, whose short story about a relationship turned sour, Cat Person, set the internet on fire last week, has sold her debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury warns UK’s exclusive English rights across EU will end, with firms fighting US companies in an open marketThe next generation of British authors could struggle to land a book deal after Brexit, according to the publisher who launched Harry Potter writer JK... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]