An American debut author has secured a £1.5m advance for her "sensational" historical novel, with Hutchinson winning the UK rights after a 12-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
This week, we have views from the corporate headquarters of Kinokuniya, showing off its 30th world bookstore location, just opened in May as the company's first store in Cambodia. The post Friday Photos: Japan’s Kinokuniya Company Opens Its First Bookstore in Cambodia appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel about the 1957 publication of 'Dr. Zhivago,' called 'We Were Never Here,' has been acquired by Knopf's Jordan Pavlin after a 14-bidder auction. Pavlin called the buzzed-about title, by a recent grad of the MFA program at the University of Texas at Austin, a "literary page-turner." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trapeze is publishing a "taboo-busting" book from married YouTubers Rose Ellen Dix and Rosie Spaughton. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
A Bristol librarian has won the inaugural Cheltenham Literature Festival First Novel competition with her “clever, pulsing story”, scooping a book deal with Borough Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 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 ]
Piatkus has acquired Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Farrah Storr's first book at auction, about spending time in our "discomfort zone". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titles from independent publishers make up four of the six-strong Authors’ Club Best First Novel shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-19 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 ]
A debut author has hit back after her novel was criticised in an Observer review, which has become the focus of a debate on social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Rights to T S Eliot Prize winner Ocean Vuong’s debut novel have been snapped up around the world, with Jonathan Cape clinching rights to publish it in the UK. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder has acquired the memoir of stand-up comedian and presenter of "The Last Leg" Adam Hills. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The great-niece of Virginia Woolf is to publish her debut novel in July with Three Hares Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two previously longlisted authors and one twice-shortlisted writer, Kamila Shamsie, are on this year's Women's Prize for Fiction longlist of 16 novels. The winner takes home £30,000 and a bronze figurine, the 'Bessie.' The post Six Debut Novelists Are on the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
There was a prickly if fleeting moment in last month’s Grammy Awards telecast during the “In Memoriam” segment that honored Chester Bennington, the late Linkin Park frontman and father of six, who took his own life last July. Moments after Bennington’s face faded from the screen, the rapper Logic... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Sphere has acquired world rights for YouTuber and presenter Amelia Mandeville's debut novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Zaffre has acquired "Strictly Come Dancing" star Anton Du Beke’s "sweeping historical" debut novel as a super lead for this autumn. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daniel Mallory was in the LAX lounge on his way back from a break in Palm Springs when his agent rang and said: "We've been resisting Hollywood because we wanted to close the publishing deal first, but Fox have offered US$1 million for the book â do you want it?'" For any novelist, let alone... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2018-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Picador has acquired a "funny and tragic" debut novel about 1960’s rural America by Paula Saunders, the wife of Man Booker Prize-winning George Saunders. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]