This Wednesday, the first Canadian Writers' Summit (CWS) kicks off in Toronto. The four-day event, which features more than 200 speakers and panelists, will be the largest event of its kind in Canada. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2016 American Library Association Annual Conference (June 23–28, in Orlando) will feature more than 2,000 scheduled events, including hundreds of author appearances, and more than 700 exhibiting companies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
L S Hilton, the author of Bonnier Zaffre lead title Maestra, has been named Glamour magazine’s 2016 Writer of the Year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Esteemed writers from 10 European nations, including Elena Ferrante, Javier Marias, Anne Enright and former finance minister for Greece Yanis Varoufakis, have issued pleas for the United Kingdom to remain in the EU. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has signed science writer Steven Johnson to its non-fiction list, after acquiring Wonderland: How Play and Delight Made the Modern World, due to publish November 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some high-profile writers and illustrators are attending events connected with this year's show. Here's a select listing of who'll be there, and when. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alvarez discusses how writing poetry helped her through a period of intense grief in her life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin Random House UK is launching a new campaign to celebrate the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer (LGBTQ) author community called Penguin Pride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ann B. LaFarge, a former editor for Dutton, Ballantine, Zebra, and Kensington, died at home on May 27. She was 83. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder and Stoughton has acquired a "boundary-pushing, darkly suspenseful" new thriller: The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen King is one of hundreds of resident authors in the US to have signed an open letter, addressed to "the American People", expressing their opposition to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
CBBC is putting on a two-day event in Birmingham this July to celebrate "awesome" authors in partnership with BBC Learning, Birmingham City Council and the Library of Birmingham. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Sheldon Blau has filed a class action suit alleging that the publisher is paying improper royalty rates on digital sales. But S&S says they have never published a digital edition of Blau's title. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The police are re-appealing for information regarding the missing children’s author Helen Bailey, who was last seen in Royston in April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
YA authors who were most feted at the annual mashup of literature and popular culture, which took place in Chicago on May 14. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
If there’s one characteristic that fans of Sarah Maas’s Throne of Glass series, Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series, and Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke & Bone series share, it’s this: they can’t read each installment fast enough. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quadrille has signed a book about the cook's knife from award-winning food writer and broadcaster Tim Hayward. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today’s 16th annual Audiobook Tea, presented at BEA by the Audio Publishers Association, features megaselling authors Maggie Stiefvater, Terry McMillan, John Scalzi, and emcee Michael Koryta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
"It's a little bit like marrying myself," commented publisher Ursula Doyle [pictured] at the launch party for her new imprint, Fleet, at the Horse Hospital arts venue in The Colonnade, Bloomsbury. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been more than 21 years since Fauzia Burke opened her own online book marketing consulting business, FSB Associates, after working at both Henry Holt and Wiley in-house. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]