With marketing ploys that are just transaction schemes extended into a digital space, marketers are falling behind the innovation pack. Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2022-09-22 09:30:00 UTC ]
Megan Giddings, Emily Lloyd Jones, Sangu Mandanna and Desideria Mesa add new twists to a popular subgenre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-09-17 12:00:00 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the 10 books on the longlist for the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction. The judges for this year’s award are Ben Fountain (Chair), Brandon Hobson, Pam Houston, Dana Johnson, and Michelle Malonzo. The 10 longlistees were chosen from a total of 463... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-16 14:15:50 UTC ]
Held in person for the first time since 2019, the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) 2022 conference brought over 300 authors, agents, publishers, and aspiring novelists together in St. Louis, Mo. from September 8-11. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
If you loved these popular novels, try picking up a nonfiction book that pairs perfectly with it, like The Martian and Packing for Mars. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-09-08 10:38:00 UTC ]
Let me begin with this admission: every work of historical fiction lives somewhere between history and myth. Before one reckons with the realities of what the research reveals, one must contend with all the layers of subsequent representation of whatever historical moment they approach. Even the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-01 08:52:28 UTC ]
In three journeys to the past, characters find themselves on quests that have nothing to do with the calendar or geography. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-30 09:00:08 UTC ]
Congratulations to Tess Gunty, whose critically acclaimed debut novel The Rabbit Hutch has just won the inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize. The novel (about four teenagers—recently aged out of the state foster-care system—living together in an apartment building in the post-industrial... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-26 15:48:11 UTC ]
A 17% increase in sales of adult fiction was not enough to prevent print book sales from declining 3.7% last week compared to the week ended August 21, 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
B&N has implemented a new ordering policy for middle grade fiction hardcovers that has caused widespread confusion and concern in that publishing sector, but CEO James Daunt said the change is being made in all categories to "buy less" in order to "sell more." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals of the day, covering cookbooks, gardening, lifestyle, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-08-12 15:52:27 UTC ]
Solar power. The end of war. Gender role reversal. Dirigibles. First published in 1905, Rokeya Hossain’s short story “Sultana’s Dream” is steampunk avant la lettre, strikingly advanced in its critique of patriarchy, conflict, conventional kinship structures, industrialization, and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-08-08 11:00:00 UTC ]
In our final column for The Post, we revisit books we have savored and many more we hope to read. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-08-04 12:00:00 UTC ]
Three new books, from epic fantasy to biological thriller, consider an age-old question. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-08-01 18:00:06 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals of the day, covering cookbooks, gardening, lifestyle, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-29 10:39:00 UTC ]
These middle grade and young adult science fiction and fantasy books are empowering and fun, and will provide the best light-hearted escape, like The Lost Ryū by Emi Watanabe Cohen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-20 10:33:00 UTC ]
Like our universe, the science fiction genre is constantly expanding. Here is a sampling of the seemingly endless list of its subgenres. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-18 10:40:00 UTC ]
The best nonfiction book deals today, including lifestyle, cookbooks, memoirs, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-07-15 10:41:00 UTC ]
Sibert Medal Honoree Melissa Stewart has written more than 200 science books for children. Here, she argues that many children gravitate towards nonfiction books, but adults may be steering them away because of their own assumptions and biases, to the detriment. of young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-07-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Northwest, where I live and where my novel is set, is a big place and it is a lot of things. It is the damp, mossy woods of the coast, the high desert, and the snowy, jagged mountain ranges that divide the two. It is home to weird and real creatures like giant octopuses, […] The post 7... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-07-13 11:00:00 UTC ]