Award marks first time a British artist and author has won Grand Prix at International Comics festival in AngoulêmeThe graphic novelist Posy Simmonds has won the Grand Prix at France’s Angoulême International Comics festival – the first time a British artist and author has been awarded the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-24 17:52:58 UTC ]
Concerns raised about interference or censorship after documents showed writers were barred despite receiving enough nominationsA prestigious literary award for science fiction, which was hosted in China for the first time, has come under fire for excluding several authors from the 2023 awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-24 15:53:48 UTC ]
From the shock and awe of labour to domestic isolation, a wave of recent novels captures the transformative nature of being a motherThey say nothing prepares you. Before having my baby, I approached the literature of motherhood as though I were about to sit an exam. If my studies tempered the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-20 11:00:01 UTC ]
The award-winning science fiction author, whose short story “Bears Discover Fire” swept the genre's major awards in 1990, died on January 10 following a recent cancer diagnosis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
Our annual pick of the most exciting debut fiction has previously tipped Sally Rooney and Louise Kennedy, Tom Crewe and Douglas Stuart. Here the class of 2024 tell us their storiesEach year since 2014, the Observer New Review’s writers and editors have read scores of forthcoming debut novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-14 07:00:20 UTC ]
From Richard Osman and Millie Bobby Brown to the upcoming book by Keanu Reeves, celebrity novels are everywhere. What’s behind the boom? And how do non-famous writers feel about it?I understood that if I was going to do it, I would have to put 100% of myself into it,” says Richard Osman about... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-13 09:00:12 UTC ]
The 2022 Survey of Literary Translators' Working Conditions collected data on income, royalties, copyright, and more from the responses of nearly 300 literary translators in the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
Rushdie’s book about the incident will be published in April, but the delay ‘will not change the ultimate outcome’ of the trial says district attorneyThe trial of the man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie has been postponed because of the publication of the author’s memoir about the attack.A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-01-04 13:18:47 UTC ]
In their lifetimes, these authors’ work went largely unappreciated. These books honor their literary legacies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-01-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
Greta Livraria in Lisbon and Rare Birds in Edinburgh are among the new stores dedicated to women’s writingWith its neatly arranged tables and shelves laden with books written by women, Greta Livraria’s small space masks its big ambitions. Since opening earlier this year, the bookstore in Lisbon... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-12-28 05:00:25 UTC ]
In his last annual letter to authors as Hachettte Book Group CEO, Michael Pietsch hit on a number of topics, including the publisher’s steps to improve its marketing efforts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-12-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists in Brooklyn draw inspiration from the New York borough’s cast of thousands, and particularly from its idiosyncratic neighborhoods. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2023-12-21 19:46:00 UTC ]
Norfolk-based crime writer JM Dalgliesh topped the Amazon and Kindle bestsellers before being signed by a traditional publisher In 2018, JM Dalgliesh was a stay-at-home father when he sent his first crime novel to six literary agents, only to receive polite rejection letters – or no response at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-12-17 09:00:23 UTC ]
If you want inspiration for the new year, the nonfiction section has a self-care title that promises a meditative reading and a graphic novel about the Latinx leaders who changed the history of the U.S. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-13 18:42:26 UTC ]
A debut author who used fake accounts to “review bomb” other writers on the influential online platform Goodreads has been dropped by her agent and had her book deal cancelled Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2023-12-13 02:46:01 UTC ]
First-time author Cait Corrain has apologized on X and announced she is going to rehab after losing her book deal and agent for 'review bombing' on Goodreads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 22:43:34 UTC ]
Where exactly is tech going? Joanne McNeil's debut novel 'Wrong Way' and billionaire Marc Andreessen's 'Techno-Optimist Manifesto' offer some clues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-12-12 11:00:26 UTC ]
Let’s imagine, for the purpose of this essay, that the following statement is true: An AI writes a novel. Actually, forget about the imagining. This is already happening. Today’s AIs—large language models (LLMs) specifically, like GPT-4—can write. If you’ve glanced at the headlines this year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-12-08 09:51:43 UTC ]
These prolific children's book authors have written hundreds of books over decades working in the publishing industry! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2023-12-07 11:30:00 UTC ]
A CBC News investigation has found at least 2,500 copyrighted books written by more than 1,200 Canadian and Québécois authors were shared online as part of a massive — and now defunct — dataset used to train artificial intelligence. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2023-12-07 09:00:49 UTC ]