A Ghana-UK cooperation to support African writers led to the launch of a new literary agency for African middle-grade and teen fiction: Accord Literary. The post New Agency for African MG and YA Fiction: Accord Literary appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unit sales of print books inched up by just under 1% in the week ended May 3, 2019, over the comparable week in 2018, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tony Schwartz responded to The New York Times report that the president lost more than $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-05-08 23:17:14 UTC ]
Author Jonathan Stroud is working with Read On, a four-year project funded in part by the EU, to encourage young people across Europe to write fan fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booker and Jhalak Prize winners Anna Burns and Guy Gunaratne are among the 12 novelists longlisted for the first Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
With sales of nonfiction audiobooks reported by the Audio Publishers Association to be growing in the US, Chronicle launches an audio division. The post Chronicle Audio: A New Hachette Partnership Focuses on Nonfiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The London Magazine has launched its debut fiction prize for a second year, following the success of its inaugural year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Credited by some to a growing post-Soviet interest in authoritative information, the Russian book business reportedly sees substantial gains for nonfiction. The post Nonfiction Sales Growth in the Russian Book Market Expected to Continue This Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Man Booker winner Anna Burns and debut author Oyinkan Braithwaite have made the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Seven authors have been shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize following a record 600 entries. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-04-24 13:50:30 UTC ]
Lebanese author Hoda Barakat has won this year’s $50,000 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for her epistolary novel The Night Mail (Dar al-Adab), only the second woman to get the award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Piatkus will publish Jennifer Weiner’s first fiction novel in four years, later this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
4th Estate has triumphed in an auction for a "breath-taking" debut work of autofiction about one man’s involvement in London gang-life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tom Hunter, director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, explores how science and speculative fiction publishing is dealing with the growing demand for diverse work. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Speculative writers flesh out our passing thoughts into complete, functioning societies and explore how they might unfold. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-04-18 09:22:03 UTC ]
The winner of the second annual Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is Francesca Reece. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tiller Press will publish books on wellness, self-expression, empathy, food and cooking, diet, parenting, home, workplace, play, creativity, travel, fan culture, and civic engagement. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
American novelist Richard Powers has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory (published by William Heinemann in the UK, Norton in the US). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Matchbook Classics series by Fourth Estate brings 10 of its noted fiction titles under the same branding—and contained in a matchbox, with an unusual method of construction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]