Author, agent see positives in the Own Voice Award for the program honoring the best in Christian fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is calling for authors to pen an “ode to booksellers” as part of a celebration of the trade during a time when high-street bookshops are unable to open their doors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 20:12:04 UTC ]
In short stories like “The Immortals” and novels like “The Listeners,” Mr. Gunn helped prepare readers for the future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-11 17:10:44 UTC ]
Over the past 20 years, industry shifts have funneled more novelists into TV rooms than ever. It's salutary in many ways — beginning with health insurance. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-02-11 15:00:05 UTC ]
Published a century ago, Eleanor Farjeon’s “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard” delivers charming stories of love in its many forms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-10 17:02:45 UTC ]
Lauren Oyler’s “Fake Accounts” and Patricia Lockwood’s “No One Is Talking About This” critique our Internet-attenuated lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-10 13:00:00 UTC ]
The Bookseller is to run two new category previews in the second quarter of 2021 as it looks to highlight growing areas of the market and key national celebrations such as Black History Month and Pride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-09 22:49:33 UTC ]
Didion’s writing has often revealed what was previously hidden, parsed what was unconscious. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-09 13:00:00 UTC ]
Get to know the works of some of the best Caribbean authors writing classic and contemporary books for young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-02-09 11:36:00 UTC ]
Tired of the subtweets? The peevish reviews? The [gasp] indecorous email sign-offs? Do you wish the literary world would just conduct its brawls out in the open for all to see? Well, now you can fight along at home with Street Writer, Maxwell Neely-Cohen’s absolutely wonderful literary homage to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-04 14:06:11 UTC ]
Tevis wrote science fiction greats like “The Man Who Fell to Earth” and the overlooked “Mockingbird.” Also, “The Hustler.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-03 17:15:28 UTC ]
The Pontas Literary & Film Agency and author J J Bola are partnering to create a mentoring prize for unagented, unpublished, under-represented writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-02 23:50:57 UTC ]
The new award comes with £1,000 and is geared to writers from 'Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.' The post Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-02 20:26:50 UTC ]
“Truly Like Lightning” is an irreverent and ambitious tale that shows off the “X-Files” actor’s literary chops. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-01 13:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild and other writers' groups in the US have written a letter to the Department of Justice to block Bertelsmann's takeover of Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-01 03:48:32 UTC ]
Several organizations sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Friday urging it to stop Penguin Random House from purchasing Simon & Schuster. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-01-29 22:12:00 UTC ]
Bernardine Evaristo is collaborating with the Royal Society of Literature to create a mentoring award scheme for emerging authors of colour as part of a £300,000 Sky Arts project. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 18:33:57 UTC ]
The children’s book has influence out of proportion with its 24 pages and its cardboard cover devoid of medallions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-01-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
JK Rowling is. John le Carré isn’t. Albert Camus and F. Scott Fitzgerald are. George Orwell might or might not be. I’m talking about registered trade marks. Authors make copyright works, and their agents’ job is to maximise revenues from those intangibles. End of story, right? Kind of. A... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-26 12:24:33 UTC ]
The Stanfords Travel Writers Festival is going digital this year with a line-up including Raynor Winn, William Dalrymple, James Naughtie and Simon Reeve. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-25 04:31:56 UTC ]