The author of 70 novels translated into 29 languages, Valerie Parv has passed away just before her 70th birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-04-30 05:02:04 UTC ]
Rachel Hollis, the best-selling author and motivational speaker, built a blockbuster business sharing her “authentic” self. Then things got a little too real. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-29 12:17:18 UTC ]
Led by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, several professional writers' organizations and authors have formed the #DisneyMustPay task force, petitioning Walt Disney Co. to honor author contracts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
Coalition of author groups call for Disney to pay outstanding royalties owed to writers of novels and comics including Star Wars, Alien and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series it now ownsA task force made up of science fiction and fantasy, romance, crime and horror authors has been formed in an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-04-28 17:07:11 UTC ]
‘A Writer Prepares’ and ‘P.G. Wodehouse: Early Years’ demonstrate how hard work — and talent — paid off Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-28 06:45:01 UTC ]
Indie Shindig, a virtual event series for booksellers created by half a dozen publishers, aims to raise up to $18,000 for We Need Diverse Books and Binc. Author Gayle Forman and Penguin Books for Young Readers are contributing sales of Forman's new novel to Binc's "Thrive to Survive" campaign. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-27 04:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers offering mind, body, and spirituality titles look for BIPOC authors who authentically represent a discipline or practice with depth, sensitivity, and nuance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
There are a number of big questions to be answered and logistics to be ironed out before authors hit the road again. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
Points of ideal translation contracts–including cover credit for a translator's work–are included in the Guild's newly released model. The post The Authors Guild Releases Its Model Translation Contract, a First appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-04-20 03:20:29 UTC ]
At a Times Book Festival panel on Black YA fiction, Dean Atta, Morgan Parker, Yusef Salaam and Ibi Zoboi discussed stories of teens making it through. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-18 01:13:11 UTC ]
In decades past, the Book Review occasionally asked young authors about their biggest influences. For our 125th anniversary, we put the question to a new generation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-15 18:35:31 UTC ]
His forecasts of trends in business and society led to a series of best-selling books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-11 15:32:47 UTC ]
The American author John Naisbitt, whose 1982 bestselling book Megatrends was published in dozens of countries, has died at 92 Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2021-04-10 13:18:30 UTC ]
One of the things that Black people know to be true is that when we lift up our voices to celebrate our joy, share our pain, or warn of the injustices levelled against our communities, we are often silenced—either by being denied the necessary platforms to elevate our voices, or by wilful... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-09 17:56:08 UTC ]
Times Book Prize finalists Rachel Howzell Hall, Ivy Pochoda, S.A. Crosby, Jennifer Hillier and Christopher Bollen talk about race, place and genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-09 14:25:05 UTC ]
Deesha Philyaw talks about the long gestation of her collection 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,' a Times Book Prize finalist for first fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-06 16:30:19 UTC ]
#Merky Books has crowned Jyoti Patel the winner of its New Writers’ Prize 2021, a competition aiming to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16 to 30 from the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-01 04:31:20 UTC ]
Interviews Ellen Adams is a singer-songwriter and prose writer who splits her time between Seattle and Montreal. She has been a Lambda Literary Fellow for nonfiction and a Fulbright Fellow researching politically engaged contemporary art in Thailand.... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-03-29 13:25:33 UTC ]
Publisher Scholastic says it will no longer distribute The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the FutureCaptain Underpants author Dav Pilkey has apologised for “harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery” in one of his graphic novels for children, which has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-03-29 12:33:28 UTC ]
Her funny stories about Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, the sisters Ramona and Beezus Quimby, and a motorcycling mouse named Ralph never talked down to readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-27 22:33:26 UTC ]