In response to the coronavirus outbreak and government advice to socially distance, authors, readers and booksellers are thinking of new, exciting and creative ways to launch their books and keep readers engaged after in-person-events get cancelled. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 11:27:40 UTC ]
“Nobody Will Tell You This but Me,” a memoir by Bess Kalb, traces her family history from the Russian pogroms to the American dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-17 09:00:08 UTC ]
Zaffre is publishing Caroline Day's debut novel, Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life, next spring. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-15 23:32:06 UTC ]
Elizabeth Tallent explains the affliction that kept her from publishing for two decades. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-13 13:36:26 UTC ]
Using some or all of the clauses in the model contract, the Authors Guild said, will help ensure that writers receive the rights granted them under current U.S. copyright and contract law. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Jessica Kingsley Publishers has launched a non-fiction writing prize for trans and non-binary writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 09:48:12 UTC ]
Toby Ferris traveled across Europe to see all of the Dutch Renaissance painter’s surviving work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-11 18:07:05 UTC ]
After an initial phase of investigation, the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority has decided that the loss of competition brought about by the proposed merger between Cengage and McGraw-Hill could raise the price of university textbooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-10 21:53:42 UTC ]
My novel The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida is a story of how a young woman’s unexplained suicide shapes and transforms the lives of those she left behind. It’s a literary mystery with elements of magical realism set in Japan, not unlike my debut novel Rainbirds. Because of these, I am often... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-03-09 11:00:00 UTC ]
Booker-winning writer Bernardine Evaristo has marked International Women’s Day by curating a top 20 list of recently published Black British writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-08 03:11:09 UTC ]
If you thought the Choose Your Own Adventure books were magical, one Sri Lankan children’s book author might be up your alley. Sybil Wettasinghe, the 90-year-old author of The Umbrella Thief, a classic children’s book in Sri Lanka, set a new Guinness World Record yesterday with the publication... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-03-06 19:45:46 UTC ]
The debut middle-grade author answers questions about writing and publishing her folklore-inspired historical fiction set in Communist Romania. The post Breaking In: An Interview with Debut Middle-Grade Author J. Kaspar Kramer by Cassandra Lipp appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2020-03-06 16:37:35 UTC ]
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Jeanine Cummins, the embattled author or 'American Dirt,' which was criticized by Latinx activists for containing stereotypical depictions of Mexican immigrants, will air on March 6 at midnight. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
Can a young writer find creative fulfillment after all her friends have settled down, married up and sold out? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 19:24:27 UTC ]
On March 2 at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony, more than $330,000 in prize money and fellowships were awarded to a host of winning writers of all kinds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-04 05:00:00 UTC ]
My Dark Vanessa author Kate Elizabeth Russell was driven to reveal details of her past when accused of inauthenticity – but should we be seeking the truth elsewhere?Our world, more than at any time in history, is all about stories. Snapchat feeds capture your entire day, Instagram users... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-02 06:00:36 UTC ]
California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez has revealed updates to a proposed amendment that, if passed, would clarify which writers can be considered independent contractors and which must be treated as full-time employees under state statute AB 5, which took effect on January 1. Revealed on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-02-28 19:22:11 UTC ]
“The Stand” and “The Andromeda Strain” are just a few of the books that envision mass infection Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-28 15:00:00 UTC ]
Would you walk up to an author at a book event, or on the street, and tell them how much you hated their book? No? But by creating a public work of art, surely authors are opening themselves up to scrutiny and should be prepared to take the rough with the smooth? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 06:23:39 UTC ]
The New York Times Book Review has announced that their poetry columnist of the last 15 years, David Orr, is stepping down to focus on his own writing, and will be replaced by Elisa Gabbert. Elisa Gabbert’s The Word Pretty (2018) was a New York Times Editors’ Pick, and The Self Unstable... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-27 21:32:22 UTC ]