Science fiction has a long tradition in North Korea and SF authors enjoy greater freedom to explore edgy subjects, such as crime and violence, than their counterparts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chronicling the Chill of 1820s Iceland in 'Burial Rites,' Australian author Hannah Kent finds deep humanity, for better and worse, in a faraway isle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Irish author Donal Ryan wins the 2013 Guardian First Book Award for his debut novel The Spinning Heart. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thanks to Sherman Alexie's forgetfulness, writers across the U.S. will volunteer at their local bookstore Saturday for the inaugural Indies First day.Not long ago the writer Sherman Alexie missed one of his readings, standing up fans at the Queen Anne Book Company, a store in Seattle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The self-publishing ecosystem in Germany is expanding into more dramatic experimentation, from crowdsourcing to offering author advances. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Agents Madeleine Milburn and David Headley [pictured] will help judge an "X Factor"... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our weekly round-up of web buzz from Porter Anderson looks at how easily exaggerated interpretations of publishing industry commentary can skew the debate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Manhattan court case about digitisation rights has brought books and the web a step closer togetherOn 14 November, after eight years of wrangling, Judge Denny Chin of the Manhattan district court finally ruled in the case of Google versus the Authors Guild. At issue was Google's scanning and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel, Jonathan Franzen, Mohsin Hamid, Ruth Rendell, Tom Stoppard, Malcolm Gladwell, Eleanor Catton and many more recommend the books that impressed them this yearChimamanda Ngozi AdichieFive Star Billionaire by Tash Aw (Fourth Estate) is a brilliant, sprawling, layered and unsentimental... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo's self-publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life, is launching an affiliate program for self-published authors with PW Select, a monthly digital newsletter and print supplement to Publishers Weekly magazine focusing on independently published books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Lebanese-American novelist Rabih Alameddine discusses the need to both belong to and be estranged from a culture in order to be able to effectively evoke it in literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suzanne Collins says she 'sort of completed' a goal of hers this fall by releasing her children's book 'Year of the Jungle,' which examines war from a child's point of view. Collins wants to write a book about war for every child age group, she says. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Partnering with HarperCollins's academic marketing division, Avon (which is a trade imprint at HC), is opening its editorial doors to submissions from undergraduate and graduate students. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week's web buzz takes in the troubled relationship between traditional publishers and startups, the death of Small Demons, writer dads, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barbara Park, author of the Junie B. Jones series of childrens' books has died, her publisher Random House announced. Park, 66, had ovarian cancer.Barbara Park, author of the Junie B. Jones series of childrens' books has died, her publisher Random House announced. Park, 66, had ovarian cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Popular authors including George R R Martin, Neil Gaiman, Kate Atkinson and David Nicholls are... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94.Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing died at her home in London on Sunday, her publisher announced. She was 94. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
To support Indies First, scores of authors will be working in indie bookstores on Small Business Saturday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A literary talent show is about to be aired in Italy, but is television the right place to nurture literary talent?Jonny Geller, agent and joint CEO, Curtis BrownAn X Factor for books is about to launch on Italian TV – it had to be Italian, didn't it? – and you can imagine the literati running... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
IFC's upcoming The Spoils of Bablyon, a comedy miniseries that spoofs serious miniseries, is based on a book that seems to be sold out in Hudson News stores around the country. The problem with keeping the book in stock, though, is that there were never any printed copies. Eric Jonrosh (and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]