The All Party Writers Group (APWG) has delayed the report divulging the results of its authors' earnings inquiry until June 2019 to "expand the scope" of the investigation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.K. Society of Authors has issued a "Brexit Briefing" asking for specific provisions for writers and publishers to be part in the U.K.'s Withdraw Agreement, including copyright protections, favorable export terms, access to E.U. grant funding, and the ability to work in the E.U. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain has announced its 2019 shortlist for its annual awards, featuring nominations for novelists Guy Gunaratne, Nicola Mostyn and Mary Lynn Bracht. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Pablo Ignacio Taibo II has taken over as director of Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico’s large state-owned publishing house. He is seen as a political radical and a controversial choice to lead the publisher Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
One of Mexico’s best-known authors has apologized for the public use of a coarse expression denounced as sexist and anti-gay. “I regret profoundly having used an unfortunate and vulgar phrase, and would hate it if this were interpreted as an aggression against feminist causes or the gay... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
PEN Afrikaans, like the International Authors Forum, echoes the International Publishers Association in criticizing South Africa's Copyright Amendment Bill. The post PEN Afrikaans, Authors Forum, Outline Objections to South Africa’s Copyright Bill appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors (SoA) and a number of writers have criticised YouTube for emailing its users saying Article 13 would prevent them from uploading videos onto online platforms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Live Talk Los Angeles has launched on Spectrum Networks, turning an author event series into a weekly primetime TV show for 1.8 million subscribers in Southern California. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Cuyahoga County Public Library’s writer-in-residence program demonstrates the library’s increasingly critical role in our literary ecosystem. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three-time novelist Elliot Ackerman's latest book, "Waiting for Eden," explores the multiple dimensions of veterans’ lives after war, and what it means to love someone despite limitations and challenges. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samantha Harvey's novel 'The Western Wind' is set in 1491 in England. She needed for there to be a private confession box; her plot hinged on it. One problem: private confession boxes didn't exist. Here's how she solved the puzzle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Book Fair's day-long Writer’s Summit will return for a second year, featuring the author duo behind Slay in your Lane and writer Daisy Buchanan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
HQ celebrated 24 of its crime authors with a Crime Fiction Showcase, coinciding with the second anniversary of the imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has acquired Empire writer Nick de Semlyen's history of '80s comedy movies, Wild and Crazy Guys. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
L'Amour never published his first novel, 'No Traveller Returns,' which draws upon on his early life at port and at sea. Now the novel is being released for the first time with the help of his son, Beau L'Amour, as part of a series of 'Lost Treasures.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Erin Morgenstern, author of the international bestseller The Night Circus, is publishing a "magical, timeless and wholly original" love story in November next year with Harvill Secker. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jeff Kinney’s 13th Wimpy Kid title The Meltdown (Puffin) has nipped into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, selling 57,790 copies to claim the author’s first overall number one since November 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debuts by Imogen Hermes Gowar, Laura Freeman, Fiona Mozley and Adam Weymouth have been shortlisted for the Sunday Times/ Peter Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with the University of Warwick. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Translator and literary scout Samantha Schnee picks six authors she thinks deserve more attention. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has warned MPs that Universal Credit could silence working-class writers, impeding diversity in publishing and making it harder to attract different types of reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]