Granta editorial director Max Porter is among three debut authors shortlisted for The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser and Dunlop Young Writer of the Year award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller magazine has published analysis finding a ‘shockingly low’ number of BAME authors in the UK top 500 titles of the yearA writer has more chance of making it into the bestseller charts if their name is David than if they are from an ethnic minority, according to new analysis from... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
An election season that has proven particularly divisive sees authors weighing in on both sides of the aisle in spite of a primarily leftward lean. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney wears his pants properly now, not with the waistband high, up near his belly button. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
With the faith of more than a billion people at the center of current events, academic publishers are churning out more books about Islam, and some are publishing in the field for the first time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A political novelist looks back on how issues explicated by her fiction ended up hampering book sales in her home country of Ethiopia. The post Ethiopia’s Tsehay Melaku: ‘My Dream Was To Be an Author’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Evangelical Christian authors discuss what it's like to be faced with choosing one of two major party candidates whose values in one way or another deeply contradict their own. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
YA author Kathryn Evans has won the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her début novel, More of Me (Usborne). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Beatty's book 'Sellout' tells the story of an African-American who attempts to bring back segregation and slavery. The novel had previously won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
She's a USA Today bestselling author who sells up to 300 books a day and has droves of fans in America â but you won't find Kiwi Leeanna Morgan's name in New Zealand's literary annals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
"You are my people, and I love you," exclaimed Jon Scieszka, emcee of the Children's Awards Breakfast at the 2016 SCIBA Fall Trade Show. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout, is the first American winner of the Man Booker Prize in its 48-year history, giving Oneworld its second consecutive win of the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers and publishers alike were inspired by the number of younger booksellers who attended the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association fall conference. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agency Casanovas & Lynch specializes in works by younger, critically acclaimed writers writing in Spanish, from across Latin America and Spain. The post Young Spanish-Language Authors on Offer from Casanovas & Lynch appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oxford University Press is crediting one of Shakespeare's rival contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe, as his co-author in a New Oxford Shakespeare edition it is publishing of the bard's plays this month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors including Joanne Harris (pictured), Kathy Lette and Robert Harris have slammed proposals to shut the library in Hay-on-Wye as “blasphemous” and “disastrously short sighted”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Report finds average earnings for British authors are just £12,500, with legal protections among the worst in EuropeAs publishing prepares for the Christmas rush, with a blizzard of titles due for launch this week on “Super Thursday”, a European commission report has shown that life is less than... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
How the husband and daughter of food writer and historian Joy Santlofer helped complete Joy's book, 'Food City,' after she died suddenly in 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
What this year's Heartland Fall Forum lacked in terms of bookseller attendance, it made up for in enthusiasm, especially when it came to children's books and authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-published writers and digital only publishers will continue to grow their share of the digital content market while traditional publishers over-price ebooks, according to early results of the FutureBook Census, launched ahead of this year’s FutureBook Conference, taking place on 2nd December. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]