A debut author flyposted Penguin Random House's offices in London's Vauxhall as part of a guerrilla marketing stunt to promote his new book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Members of the book trade are supporting author Charles Sprawson with a fundraising iniative to raise money for care fees, as Vintage prepares to reissue his “cult swimming classic” Haunts of the Black Masseur. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Independent I B Tauris has signed novelist Celia Brayfield’s new book Rebel Writers in a deal made with Curtis Brown. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Debut novelist Adebayo Ayobami reveals how sickle cell disease inspired her book. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Payments of more than $9 million have finally been issued to thousands of freelance writers following the 2014 settlement of a class action case filed in the wake of the landmark Tasini vs. New York Times, the seminal legal battle of the digital publishing era. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 500 bookstores participated in this year's Independent Bookstore Day, which took place across the U.S. this past Saturday, April 28. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
World-renowned neuroscientist and bestselling author David Eagleman has published a lot of books on the brain. But a little work of fiction he wrote almost a decade ago influenced readers' minds in a way scientific texts never could. Ahead of his appearance at the Auckland Writers Festival, he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
This is the last year that British authors are likely to be eligible to enter the European Book Prize (Prix du Livre Européen), with the UK's exit from the European Union looming in March 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookouture has appointed The Artists Partnership to represent its authors for film, stage and TV. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild and literary journal Epiphany magazine have partnered to launch the Breakout 8 Writers Prize, established to "recognize outstanding emerging literary voices" among college students. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book trade has reacted with shock and dismay to the “tragedy” that Quick Reads has been scrapped for next year after organisers struggled to find sponsorship. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty of the UK’s authors and illustrators, including Sir Michael Morpurgo, Chris Riddell and Jacqueline Wilson, have pledged their support for a campaign encouraging the book industry to ditch the plastic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The forgotten stories, discovered among the late writer’s papers, will be published beginning in November with Christmas Story CollectionTwo collections of forgotten stories by Noel Streatfeild are to be published for the first time. They were discovered among the late writer’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publisher Sarah Odedina is launching a new workshop for aspiring children’s authors and will give away 10% of the tickets to black, Asian and minority ethnic writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a groundbreaking study of more than two million books published in North America between 2002 and 2012, scholars found that books by women authors are priced 45% less than those of their male counterparts. The researchers, sociologist Dana Beth Weinberg and mathematician Adam Kapelner, both... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the Los Angeles Times’ Festival of Books, authors who may rarely be seen are able to show a bit more personality than usual. Our photographer Jay L. Clendenin was able to coax fun moments out of authors who stopped by the L.A. Times Studio at the University of Southern California. Here are... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s enough to make your head spin, but the New York Times journalist and novelist wouldn’t have it any other way. Emma Brockes meets her in New YorkWhen Hanya Yanagihara was 10 years old, her father let her visit a pathologist’s lab. He was a doctor and an artist, twin interests his young... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Abortion, gun violence, the global refugee crisis and the degradation of the Great Lakes were among the subjects of books honored Friday at the 38th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The awards were presented at USC’s Bovard Auditorium on the eve of the two-day L.A. Times Festival of Books,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Overwriting is a common problem among beginners, but it happens to the best of them – ask a professional editorMost writers I know massively overwrite. How common is it for a published author to have had an editor do a big cutting job?Retired 72-year-old psychotherapist, living in IndiaRichard... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a tightening market for fiction and especially for debut authors looking for that big break, editors can be choosier–and many are more dependent than ever on literary agents to find their next debuts. The post With Fewer Debut Novels Selling, What Do Editors Want To Tell Authors? appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]