Octopus has paid tribute to British designer, retailer and restaurateur Sir Terence Conran, who died aged 88 over the weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 03:25:58 UTC ]
#Merky Books has announced the second annual #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize, a competition that aims to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-14 02:02:20 UTC ]
Famed writer and activist Cory Doctorow is selling the audio version of his upcoming book via Kickstarter to sidestep the walled garden of Amazon-owned audiobook platform Audible. When science fiction writer and activist Cory Doctorow releases his new novel, Attack Surface, next month, you’ll be... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-09-12 09:00:52 UTC ]
Alka Joshi’s debut novel, The Henna Artist, is taking the literary world by storm. On The Literary Life, she talks with Mitchell Kaplan about the small leap from writing ad copy to writing a novel, how both her mother and mother-in-law informed her protagonist, and the joy she’s deriving from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-11 08:47:09 UTC ]
These YA books with trans protagonists by trans and non-binary authors range from contemporary to speculative fiction, including titles like When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-10 10:38:02 UTC ]
Winslow has a blunt reminder for Trump's supporters ahead of Election Day. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-09-09 08:34:11 UTC ]
After all but two members resigned from ITW's board in June, the organization has regrouped, recruiting a new slate of board members and setting up a safety and security committee to establish a process for responding to complaints. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
Doubleday has acquired two novels by Anglo-Nigerian writer Nikki May in a "hotly contested" nine-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 17:57:58 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has won a debut novel by K-Ming Chang in a "heated" five-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 06:51:52 UTC ]
The publishing frenzy that is Super Thursday will leave many authors in the cold, having to find new ways to engage with potential readers of their work Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-05 08:53:51 UTC ]
Attention to diversity has yet to pay much heed to us, but we are the biggest minority in the world, so if space is cleared everyone stands to win As a disabled writer, it has been a little strange to watch publishers rush to put on online events during the pandemic. Authors have been... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-04 14:00:57 UTC ]
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
From contemporary and historical fiction to science fiction and fantasy, including Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao, these 21 books are must-reads for 12th graders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-03 10:33:00 UTC ]
Harmony Difo joins 'Publishers Weekly' as nonfiction reviews editor, replacing Mark Rotella, who left the magazine earlier this summer. Zoe Christen Jones has been hired in a newly created writer-at-large position, which includes a new magazine column on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-03 04:00:00 UTC ]
David Higham Associates (DHA) is running a series of events for adult and children’s fiction writers in its next New Writers Open Week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-31 14:20:32 UTC ]
Hosts Kate, Eric, and Medaya are joined by renowned Chinese writer Yan Lianke, whose latest book is the memoir Three Brothers, about his childhood growing up during the Cultural Revolution. Calling in from Beijing, Yan discusses his life as a writer, being banned and censored in his own country... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-08-28 20:55:54 UTC ]
A book written in a child's voice wins the 2020 International Booker Prize, its author from a devoutly religious Dutch farming family. The post Author Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Translator Michele Hutchison, Win International Booker Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-08-26 16:17:28 UTC ]
Interviews Get to know the participants of the upcoming 2020 Neustadt Festival in this series of short interviews. First up: David Bellos! David Bellos is a professor of French and comparative literature as well as director of the Program in Translation... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-08-25 20:30:39 UTC ]
With voter registration deadlines approaching and misinformation around voter fraud spreading, a newly-formed coalition of writers is volunteering their time to defeat Donald Trump in the presidential election this fall. The group, Writers Against Trump—whose initial members include Paul Auster,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-08-25 17:07:21 UTC ]
A number of authors have withdrawn their books from Bloomsbury India, after the publishing house pulled Monika Arora's Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story, scheduled for publication this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 02:21:19 UTC ]