In this week's episode of the 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast, author Fred Nadis talks about his book on sci-fi writer and editor Ray Palmer. The post When Good Science Fiction Fans Go Bad appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2015-12-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
How many have you read? Test yourself by seeing if you can match first lines to the titles of the Monitor's favorite novels (and one collection of short stories) from 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has bought the world rights to A Girl Called Owl, a new tween fiction novel, from Skylark Literary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
At a time when the translation market is shrinking, the internet giant’s publishing arm, AmazonCrossing, has leapt ahead as by far the biggest publisher of English versions of international titles this year. Alison Flood inspects its basketTranslation Tuesdays: read poetry, short stories and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Entertainers share their secrets, scientists tell it like it is (and historians like it was), while Robert Reich and Bill O'Reilly dig in. Skip to: Entertainment | Current Affairs | History | Memoir/Bio | Science/Technology | Sports | Complete list Entertainment Unfaithful Music and Diasppearing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Key festive titles from publishers are now on bookshop shelves, including a number of new titles from big-name authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Del Rey, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, has acquired "a bold new voice in fantasy fiction" in author Mark de Jager. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Noy Holland on perhaps the most difficult and weighted subject an author can tackle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
The winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2015 is David Almond for 'A Song for Ella Grey.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperLegend, with its focus on discovering new literary talent, will consider manuscripts submitted by un-agented authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ellen Banda-Aaku has long battled with her African publishers to make her teen/YA books ‘suitable’ enough to print. Now she’s started to stand her ground for the sake of her teenager readers – and risks not being published at allPlus find out about #ProjectKala, a campaign to promote reading in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are some men who, upon learning that I have been involved in two feminist books, like to say to me that women are: “More equal now than before, so why do we still need feminism?” Typically, their tone has a kind of faux-earnest, head-cocked-to-one-side, u ok hun? edge to it. They aren’t... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
We take a look back at the winners from the past 10 years of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four poetry collections have made the shortlist for the fiction category of the Portico Prize for Literature in a "surprise outcome." The prize is biennially awarded to the highest quality books set wholly or mainly in the North of England. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dynamic, radical, often female … Irish fiction is flourishing. Gone is the conservative writing – all nostalgia and sexual repression – of the Celtic Tiger years. The writers of the new wave are original and bold“Money kills the imagination,” says the narrator of Claire Kilroy’s 2012 novel The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning comedian Amy Schumer’s memoir has been snapped up by HarperNonFiction after an intense multi-publisher auction. The tentatively titled The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is a collection of personal stories and anecdotes, combining Schumer’s fresh take on feminism with socially... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sam Edenborough, president of the Association of Authors’ Agents, talks about the next big thing in fiction and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Held in the South for the first time, crime and mystery fiction's annual convention mixed literary prizes and barbecue with programming focused on everything from traditional hardboiled crime novels to short fiction and international mysteries. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jesuit priest Martin, well known for his role on the Colbert Report and from his media work during the pope's recent visit, discusses his first novel 'The Abbey.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I’d be unable to distinguish between what is me and what is Lizzie in the book; Lizzie’s memories appear in my mind as vaguely and as vividly as my own." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]