AUTHORS.me is a new, US-based online platform that promises to help literary agents and publishers field and manage submissions with ease. The post AUTHORS.me Promises to Tame Your Slush Pile appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author and poet Peter Dickinson OBE died yesterday on 16th December - his 88th birthday - in Winchester, following a brief illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new nationwide library campaign will hold the government to account over its legal responsibilities towards libraries and has called on local authorities to put all changes to library services on hold or risk breaching the law. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors, agents and publishers have praised the increase in the number of books with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) and mental health themes in 2015, but added that more needs to be done in terms of publishing BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) authors and books that feature... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
British poet Sarah Howe has been awarded The Sunday Times/ Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award for her first collection of poems, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus), described as an “enthralling personal exploration of her dual heritage." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Presenter of the BBC's weekly "Meet the Author" programme, Nick Higham is leaving the show after six years at the show's helm on the BBC News Channel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 'Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars,' Stephen Prothero narrates the history of the American culture wars from the country's founding through today, with some interesting revelations along the way. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Monica Parker, author of 'OMG! How Children See God' (HCI, 978-0-7573-1864-1) will appear on 'Tough Talk Christian Radio' with Tony Gambone on Thursday, December 10, at 10:30 a.m. ET. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The founder of 'author-centric' independent publisher September Publishing has said publishers should find time to “constructively” reject authors or they will “abandon the industry” and become self-published. Speaking on a panel entitled ‘Writing the future: author-centric publishing’ at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authorities in Pakistan are investigating whether Tashfeen Malik, one of the attackers in a San Bernardino shooting, had ties to Islamic militant organizations amid reports that she had pledged allegiance to an Islamic State leader on Facebook, Pakistani intelligence sources said... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kalem literary agency and Turkish publisher Everest gathering global publishers and translators in Istanbul to launch Farewell My Beautiful Motherland by Ahmed Umit. The post A One-of-a-Kind Celebration for Turkish Author Ahmed Umit appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the late 1990s the venerable book trade chronicler Ian Norrie wrote to The Bookseller’s then-editor Louis Baum to complain about the inclusion of an author in the magazine’s series of The Great and the Good. “Authors are not part of the book trade per se,” Norrie wrote. This week The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Stuart Evers recently collaborated with U.K. folk trio Daughter, writing three short stories that provide the visuals for three music videos promoting Daughter's second album. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors reveals 2015 saw the highest number of applications for financial assistance, with more well-known authors beginning to ask for helpA record number of struggling authors applied for emergency financial assistance in 2015, the Society of Authors has revealed, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fitzcarraldo Editions has launched The Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, a new annual essay award for unpublished writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writers in Zimbabwe have created a traveling book fair and are marshaling social media to build direct bonds with impoverished readers. The post Zimbabwe Writers Battle Disinterest With Literary Festival appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A coalition of authors groups and booksellers is urging the Supreme Court to reverse the verdict in Apple's ebook price-fixing case. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Yes, book publishers have a problem with writers of colour – it’s just not the one Man Booker prizewinner Marlon James describesThere are so few ethnic minority voices in publishing and the media that when one criticises another it has come to be regarded as a form of strike-breaking. Knowing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Kamila Shamsie has said that traditional publishers’ focus on the “bottom line value of pounds and pennies” has meant a shift away from building authors’ careers in the long-term and created a lack of diversity and new voices. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebury m.d. Rebecca Smart said that traditional publishers need to “shout from the rooftops” more about the value and investment they provide for authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]