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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]