Jonathan Cape has scooped the debut book from Kristen Roupenian, the author of 'Cat Person', a short story published in the New Yorker this week which went viral and triggered a wave of media coverage. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Myriad has commissioned writer and broadcaster Margaret Busby to compile a "major" new anthology about African women writers from the past 25 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Competition from smartphones and readers sticking to well-known writers means novelists are suffering. We must find ways better ways to enable themFinally it’s official: literary fiction is in crisis, and writers across the land are burning the midnight oil in their garrets, teaching or slogging... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Only 14 of 205 respondents to an unprecedented Authors Guild survey said that 100 percent of their income is from translation and related activities. The post Authors Guild Survey Points to Translators’ Challenges in Year Ahead: Earnings, Contracts, Credit appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Arts Council England report has set the internet ablaze – but are sales of literary fiction in decline because of snobbery, bad writing or Candy Crush?News: Literary fiction in crisis as sales drop dramaticallyArts Council England has sounded the alarm for literary fiction with a report... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Serious debate, discussion, and great books and authors await librarians at the upcoming 2018 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new report released by the Authors Guild showed that more than 65% of the literary translators responding to a survey earn less than $20,000 a year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The German Neobooks platform opens its prize program to crime and thriller submissions, and the UK's Joanna Penn turns to writers' health issues. The post Self-Publishing: Germany’s Indie Autor Preis 2018 Opens; Healthy Habits for Writers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The agency, formed by three publishing houses, this year has captured both the 'adult' Finlandia Prize and the junior prize in children's literature. The post Helsinki Literary Agency Authors Win Both the Finlandia Prize and the Junior Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist and short story writer John Boyne has claimed "women are better novelists than men". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Male authors are always pronouncing their own brilliance – or boasting about not reading books by women. So, after a lifetime of writing and attending literary festivals, John Boyne would like to get something off his chest …Do you know what the literary tea towel is? It’s an Irish phenomenon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
We asked the authors of our top 10 books of 2017, announced in the October 30 issue, to share their favorite titles published this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
'Conversations With Friends' author Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 wins the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. The post Irish Author Sally Rooney Wins the UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sally Rooney has become the first Irish winner of the Sunday Times/Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award for her "fearless, sensual" debut novel Conversations with Friends (Faber). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fêted for her auspicious debut, ‘Conversations With Friends,’ Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 is tied with Zadie Smith (2001, ‘White Teeth’) for youngest winner of the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson A Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Book of Bees (Thames and Hudson) has won the 2017 Educational Writers’ Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Its pages are filled with history but a very modern invention has helped bring an old subject bang-up-to-date, Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Co-founder launches new press as company goes into formal liquidation with writers reporting royalties still unpaidAuthors left in limbo after the collapse of a troubled Scottish publisher have reacted with dismay to the latest venture by its co-founder: a new publishing imprint. The day after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House has scored two out of the three shortlisted titles for best first novel from the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lars Kepler is the pen name of the Swedish husband-and-wife writing team of Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, who move to Knopf from FSG amid much fanfare. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]