A selection of some of the hundreds of children's book authors who will be at this season’s regional shows. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Guardian Australia and Hachette Australia announce the 21 writers in the running for inaugural $10,000 books prize, chosen from more than 900 entriesGuardian Australia is pleased to announced the 21 writers who have made the longlist of the inaugural Richell prize for emerging writers.In its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The two parties, which are locked in a libel and defamation suit, have each filed counter motions asking the court to rule immediately in their favor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chipping Norton Literary Festival will pay the authors who appeared at this year’s event just under £100 per hour of work as part of its new profit share scheme. The festival, which was first held in 2012, previously paid authors their accommodation, subsistence and travel expenses, but not an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jay Keefe wrote a memoir about recovering from alcoholism and realizes, upon publication, that it a huge personal risk it was, albeit one with rewards. The post Exposing Yourself As a First-Time Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
'A lot of new material' "Being an author myself again has made me a better agent I believe," Andrew Lownie tells me. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oliver Sacks, the neurologist and bestselling author who sought to humanize people with brain disorders by portraying their bizarre lives not as litanies of freakish behaviors but as examples of resiliency, has died. He was 82. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
'An unacceptable restriction on authors’ livelihoods' No publisher would agree, at an author’s request, to forgo publishing another author’s book on a particular subject. So why should an author assume a similar obligation? But it happens all the time. Of all the contract-reform issues... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has brought forward the release date of The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy – the creator of ‘Corbynomics’ – and is exploring plans to launch the book at the Labour Party Conference next month. Murphy [pictured] is a chartered accountant and is the author of Labour leadership contender... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The real beneficiary of the DIY book boom is the publishing industry itself. The post Self-Publishing Is Good for You … and Authors and the Book Industry appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reading charity Scottish Book Trust today launched What’s Your Story?, a new programme to increase opportunities for young writers in Scotland. Funded by Time to Shine, Creative Scotland’s arts strategy for young people, the programme will connect young writers using writer groups, workshops,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, author of 'Friday Night Lights, 25th Anniversary Edition' (Da Capo, 9780306824203), will appear on 'Today' on Tuesday, August 25. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Janice Galloway has called on Creative Scotland to “to do something drastic” to stop the nation’s writers from struggling. According to the Scotsman, Galloway, author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing (Vintage Classics), has warned that most of Scotland’s writers are being left to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaign group Authors United has written to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to ask it to investigate Amazon, which it says has “gained unprecedented power over America’s market for books”. The letter, signed by 575 authors including Scott Turow, Nelson DeMille and Nora Roberts and submitted... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sherry Gore left behind a life dominated by tragedy and sorrow when she became one of the few people to join the Amish from the outside. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
General Ann Dunwoody, author of 'A Higher Standard, Leadership Strategies from America’s First Female Four-Star General' (Da Capo Press, 9780738217796), will appear on CNN’s 'The Lead with Jake Tapper' on Friday, August 21. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Linda K. Wertheimer, author of "Faith Ed.," explains how educating today's children about world religions could heighten tolerance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anthony Bourdain, Alice Waters, Mark Bittman, and Yotam Ottolenghi are among the cookbook authors who contributed recipes to 'Soup for Syria: Recipes to Celebrate Our Shared Humanity.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his call for Your five-minute manifesto for FutureBook, The Bookseller editor Philip Jones wrote that part of the planning of our FutureBook Conference this year (4th December at The Mermaid) is "to take this recent history of the book business and reflect on the job still to do." To that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
UK author Andrew Shantos tracks the elation, frustration and quantification of the first two months of publication of his debut novel, Dead Star Island. The post Down, Up, Down Again: The Diary of a Debut Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]