On International Women’s Day, Sheila O’Reilly on the writers who have inspired her. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors is lobbying the government to introduce a new law to protect authors' and creators' contracts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Wellington author's first book has earned him a place in the finals of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, as the revamped book awards return after a year's hiatus. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mortality is hot. Although the act of dying has largely been moved from our homes and daily lives into the sequestered, antiseptic realm of hospitals and hospices, memoirs grappling with impending death have proliferated, bringing mortal knowledge home in a new way. Two doctors, Oliver Sacks and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK writer Tessa Hadley has won a Windham-Campbell Prize, worth $150,000 (£107,000). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Catholic school in Australia has cancelled a speaking visit from an award-winning gay author of young adult books because his new book - which includes a gay character - has been deemed "not appropriate". Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-publishing outfit author solutions was sold by Penguin Random House in January 2016, and it is now ready to expand, its c.e.o. Andrew Phillips says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors chief executive officer talks about campaigning to get the best deals for her members—and why she favours the direct approach. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Released on February 16, 'The Widow' by Fiona Barton came in at #2 on the iBooks bestsellers chart for the week ended February 21. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning novelist Neil Griffiths is launching a new literary prize to celebrate “small presses producing brilliant and brave literary fiction” in the UK and Ireland - in part because he believes the publishing business model is "terrible". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Republic of Consciousness prize has been launched by novelist Neil Griffiths, who intends to ‘guilt trip’ bestselling authors into contributingThe award-winning novelist Neil Griffiths is launching a new literary prize celebrating the “small presses producing brilliant and brave literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pape Satàn Aleppe: Chronicles of a Liquid Society is a collection of essays that was originally set to be published in May 2016The release date of the final book by the Italian novelist Umberto Eco, who died on 19 February, has been pushed forward from May 2016 to come out this weekend in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee created a work that has endured for generations with her first novel 'Mockingbird,' which told the story of Scout Finch and her experiences as her father battles racism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Umberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel “The Name of the Rose” became a global phenomenon, has died, his American publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt confirmed late Friday afternoon. He was 84. Eco was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee created a work that has endured for generations with her first novel 'Mockingbird,' which told the story of Scout Finch and her experiences as her father battles racism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most enduring literary classics, To Kill a Mockingbird, about a child's view of right and wrong and waited 55 years to publish a second book with the same characters from a very different point of view, died at the age of 89 on Friday (Saturday NZ Time). Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erin Kaplan, author of 'I Heart Obama' (ForeEdge, 9781611685367) will be on Duluth, Minn.’s NPR affiliate WOJB-FM on Monday, February 22 at 12:00 p.m. EST. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pat Conroy, 70, best-selling American author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, his publisher, Doubleday, announced on Tuesday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors and critics are warning that Middle Grade children’s books, for readers aged eight to 12 years, are failing to get the attention they merit from the media and book prize organisers because of the dominance of Young Adult titles. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new report from Author Earnings previews what the Digital Book World Conference audience is likely to hear in "Data Guy's" keynote address. The post Digital Arachnid: What Does Author Earnings Say to the Industry? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2016-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]