Children’s authors will be front and center on the Uptown Stage today, when back-to-back kids’ programming takes place. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 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 ]
The striking similarities between Pulitzer Prize–winner Robert Olen Butler and the narrator in his latest novel, "Perfume River," leads readers to wonder if the book is in some way autobiographical. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the popularity of bestselling Italian author Elena Ferrante, who was recently named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people, the flow of translations between the U.S. and Italy continues to be one-sided. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
“For many, China is a black box,” said Ruediger Wischenbart, director of international affairs for BookExpo America, as part of his introduction to China By the Numbers, a panel discussion which sought to deliver straightforward data to those interested in the Chinese market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sphere has signed two books from thriller writer Karen Dionne for a "significant" six-figure sum following a "heated" seven-way publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the inaugural Deborah Rogers Writers’ Award, a £10,000 prize for an unpublished writer, is Sharlene Wen-Ning Teo for Ponti, a work of fiction about "a misfit adolescent girl growing up in sultry, sweaty Singapore". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bernie Corbett, general secretary of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, has stepped down after 15 years at the helm of the trade union. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Veteran African American pop culture writer David Walker discusses writing for two popular black comic book superheroes: DC's half-man/half-machine, Cyborg, and Marvel's Luke Cage, aka Power Man. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is partnering YA authors with booktubers (vloggers who talk about books on YouTube) for a new anthology. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author Jenny Diski, who published a memoir about living with inoperable lung cancer only last week, has died aged 68. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has acquired to novels by Swedish author Malin Persson Giolito from Astri von Arbin Ahlander at the Ahlander Agency in Stockholm. UK and Commonwealth rights to Persson Giolito’s Quicksand, as well as her next novel, were bought at auction at the London Book Fair by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jan Constantine will step down as the legal counsel of the Authors Guild at the end of April, just a few days after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Guild's appeal in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
To prove that authors do not need to cancel events in North Carolina in order to show their opposition to the state's new "bathroom law," local bestseller Sara Gruen has mounted an event called "Kill the Bill" with a major local bookseller, and other NC authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The US Authors Guild’s appeal against the earlier ruling that allows the tech giant to scan millions of books under ‘fair use’ has been rejected by the Supreme CourtA long-running face-off between the US Authors Guild and Google over the search engine’s scanning of millions of books was brought... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A letter signed by writers including Pulitzer winners Junot Diaz, Alice Walker, and Richard Ford calls PEN's acceptance of Israeli support "deeply regrettable." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-published writers have voiced disgruntlement about a perceived sidelining of the Author HQ area at London Book Fair, calling it a “step backwards” for the independent author movement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
'We are a little isolationist,' Ivars Ījabs says to fellow from the Baltics in a session of constructive candor on 'the paradox of the open culture' at London Book Fair. The post Baltic Crossroads at London Book Fair: Writers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
In response to Sherman Alexie’s decision to cancel an appearance in North Carolina and concerns that more cancellations could follow, the ABA and other book-related groups asked authors not to punish booksellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and biographer Adrian Greenwood has died following a “vicious and sustained” attack in his home. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]