The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Trust Young Writer of the Year Award shortlist has been revealed featuring Megan Nolan, Costa Prize-winning Caleb Azumah Nelson and Cal Flynn among others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-23 07:16:43 UTC ]
Gillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and other authors discuss their creative process. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-20 18:04:50 UTC ]
Andrew Lipstein’s entertaining debut novel mines comedy from an aspiring author’s ethically questionable path to publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
His 1973 novel "My Uncle Napoleon," affectionately skewering the foibles of his countrymen and women in the decades before the Islamic Revolution, became one of the most phenomenally popular works of modern Persian literature. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-01-19 04:45:33 UTC ]
Once again the children’s writer Julia Donaldson tops the year-end ranking of writers through Nielsen, but a rise in sales of backlist titles saw a number of authors with large oeuvres make an appearance. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 10:02:13 UTC ]
Waterstones has apologised and said it is "deeply embarrassed" after award-winning author Derek Owusu was asked for ID in a London branch when he offered to sign copies of his books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 01:22:08 UTC ]
The ’90s are back, as if they could ever truly peace out. Between Fear Street and Captain Marvel and the Alanis Morissette musical, the last mostly-offline decade is getting a gargantuan nostalgia polish. For my memoir Sticker—an exploration of my childhood in Charlottesville, Virginia via 20... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-01-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
Peters Fraser & Dunlop has entered into an agreement with French publisher J C Lattès to handle all translation rights to the iconic Imogène series by Le Masque author Charles Exbrayat. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-13 14:31:59 UTC ]
More than 300 prominent writers and publishers including Bernardine Evaristo, Alan Hollinghurst and Malorie Blackman have signed a letter to the Times opposing the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill, which is being voted on in the House of Lords over the next two weeks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-13 12:40:06 UTC ]
Roxane Gay is launching a new one-year fellowship programme which will see her support three aspiring writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-12 16:04:26 UTC ]
IPA, CPJ, and several embassies condemn the defamation verdict against PRH Peru's Jerónimo Pimentel and author Christopher Acosta. The post PRH Peru Chief and Author in Defamation Case: Publishing Industry Support appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-01-12 15:59:10 UTC ]
BookLife, PW’s subsidiary devoted to helping self-published authors, will hold the first BookLife Indie Author Forum on March 19 from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EDT. The forum will cover the writing and publishing of adult and children’s books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
In “I Came All This Way to Meet You,” the novelist reveals how far she’s traveled — and how many obstacles she’s cleared — to get where she is now. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-11 10:00:05 UTC ]
HarperCollins has snapped up the rights to the authorised biography of business leader Ratan Tata by Thomas Mathew. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-10 03:56:03 UTC ]
The Christmas decorations are down, the tin of Quality Street is empty and now I’m planning my author goals for the year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-08 10:21:55 UTC ]
Independent publisher Galley Beggar has paid tribute to author Uschi Gatward, who has died following a battle with cancer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 01:03:10 UTC ]
The AAPI Communities in Conversation series launches on January 4 at 1 p.m. ET. The series is a joint effort between the University of South Carolina's Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and Penguin Random House Library Marketing, with additional media support from Publishers Weekly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-01-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
How book-loving communities on social media are helping authors break barriers to become bestsellersTalia Hibbert was rewatching a Spider-Man film and eating a meal in her living room when she received life-changing news. Her romance novel Act Your Age, Eve Brown, which she wrote at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-30 08:00:44 UTC ]
A federal judge has issued a default judgment against a major overseas e-book piracy operation known as the KISS Library. In addition to a permanent injunction barring the service from operating, the court also awarded the plaintiffs the maximum amount of damages under the law, totaling some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-29 05:00:00 UTC ]
The unsparing observer of US culture, politics and public life won huge acclaim for her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking• Read Alex Clark’s interview with Joan Didion from February 2021• Obituary: Joan DidionJoan Didion, the eminent journalist, author and anthropologist of contemporary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-23 17:19:56 UTC ]