Fifty-one percent of women over 40 feel older women in fiction books tend to fall into clichéd roles, according to a new survey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 07:03:41 UTC ]
Samsung and AT&T recently opened their collaborative 5G Innovation Center to much fanfare. Here is what the two corporate behemoths are actually working on within the secretive walls of Samsung's multibillion-dollar facility in Austin. Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-06-26 15:45:18 UTC ]
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) celebrated its new fiction series inside Winston Churchill's historic war rooms last night. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-26 05:47:36 UTC ]
HarperCollins’ Martha Ashby has snapped up a novel about "women’s bodily autonomy, motherhood and societal expectations" from American author and Publishers Weekly reviewer Donna Freitas in a six-figure pre-empt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-25 18:53:46 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books will this October start publishing a young fiction series set in a magical werewolf world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-20 00:29:34 UTC ]
Almost 50 journalists and bloggers gathered to hear from authors such as Adele Parks and Felicity Everett at a tropical-themed ‘Destination HQ’ showcase, offering a first look at its fiction releases over the next nine months. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 17:22:31 UTC ]
Man Booker Prize winner Anna Burns and Women's Prize shortlistee Diana Evans are among the six novelists shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-10 01:32:56 UTC ]
Though Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush have lived their entire lives in the spotlight, they first became literary luminaries in 2017, with the publication of their bestselling joint memoir, 'Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Led by double-digit gains in adult nonfiction, unit sales of print books rose 4.4% in the week ended May 25, 2019, compared to the similar week last year, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Anna Burns is the bookies' favourite to win the £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction, with the latest odds from William Hill putting Milkman (Faber) at 6/4. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-30 07:48:44 UTC ]
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the bestselling author and MacArthur Fellowship recipient, is about to add novelist to the list. His debut novel, 'The Water Dancer' (One World, Sept.), follows a young man’s conflicted journey into the covert war on slavery. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Indie booksellers raved about both fall/winter fiction and nonfiction offerings at BookExpo, but literary fiction with plots inspired by today's news headlines is what they were most excited about. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-30 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group (HCG) has acquired The Impossible Boy, the debut children’s fiction title from Ben Brooks, who wrote Stories For Boys Who Dare To Be Different for Quercus. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-28 04:12:17 UTC ]
Editorial director for Weidenfeld & Nicolson (W&N), Paul Murphy, is leaving his role after more than eight years with Orion, following a “review" of the imprint's non-fiction commissioning team. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-27 22:34:20 UTC ]
Pamela Jenoff, Kate Quinn and other authors talk about how they find inspiration for their novels. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-05-24 13:00:00 UTC ]
From finding the diary at an estate sale in the Midwest to crafting it into fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Gains in nonfiction in the week ended May 18, 2019, helped lift unit sales of print books 2.6% over the comparable week in 2018 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
The camera whirs into focus. Distorts. Whirs into focus again. Scanlines and static make the scene hard to process at first, but they slowly fade. There’s an astronaut here—Emma Fisher, one of your crew. She sounds worried. “That wasn’t good. SAM, run your self diagnostic procedure. What... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2019-05-21 14:00:00 UTC ]
Street Noise Books, a new independent publishing house specializing in graphic memoir and illustrated nonfiction for young adults, will publish its first list in January 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
The suit revolves around a 2013 law designed to help creative workers in the state by offering authors, composers and artists in Rhode Island a sales tax exemption. But in a bizarre twist, the state’s tax officials have ruled that the tax break applies only to authors of fiction, because... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-10 04:00:00 UTC ]