As the USA and Cuba reestablish diplomatic relations, literary relations are also flourishing: Restless Books will release a series of Cuban sci-fi books. The post Restless Books’ Publisher Searches for Cuban Science Fiction appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperNonFiction has bought a “unique” escapist’s guide to climbing trees for a “strong five-figure sum” in a “hotly contested” five-publisher auction. The Treeclimber’s Guide to London by Jack Cooke can be read as “either a practical guide or a daydreamer’s handbook”. Publishing director Jack... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Profile m.d. Andrew Franklin has defended UK trade publishers against criticism that they are not producing good non-fiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Contrary to Sam Leith’s complaints last week, commercial publishers continue to take risks, and put out great and original workIn his article last week, Sam Leith deplored the state of mainstream trade publishing, saying it was “getting dumber by the day”, in contrast to the university presses... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emily Robertson has been appointed as editor for non-fiction at Viking. Robertson, who was previously at Hodder, will be acquiring across narrative and illustrated non-fiction at the Penguin General imprint. She will report to Viking publisher Joel Rickett. Viking said Robertson would help... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Christy Awards for excellence in fiction were presented Monday at the Christian retail show in Orlando. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
When it comes to high-calibre non-fiction, risk-averse trade publishing houses are producing too many copycat ‘smart thinking’ books that promise more than they deliver. But praise should be given to the university pressesAmid the ambient wails of doom about the publishing industry, I’d like to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
"The trouble with magic," wrote children's author and activist Zetta Elliott in an award-winning 2013 Jeunesse essay, "is that it appears to exist in realms to which only certain children belong." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The German Bookseller and Publishers Association presents statistics for the German book market 2014. Sales are up in nonfiction and at physical bookstores. The post German Book Market 2014: Nonfiction Up, Overall Sales Down appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The reputation of an author writing a continuation novel in a well-established brand series is just as important as the brand itself, publicists have told The Bookseller. Novelist Sophie Hannah added that authors who are fans of the series they are writing in can channel the original author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier Publishing is looking to expand its fiction division and is recruiting for five managerial roles. The division, which includes children’s imprints Hot Key Books and Piccadilly Press and adult fiction imprints Zaffre and Twenty7, is looking to hire a director/head of export sales, key... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Did you know every two days, humans generate as much data as we did from the dawn of history up until 2003? AJ Steiger on how the internet means teenagers are more connected and empowered than ever before… but more vulnerable too – and how our books reflect this dualityThink about this for a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Malaysia, publishers including Buku Fixi and Legen Press, are capitalizing on social media to find writers of pulp fiction, selling 1m+ copies. The post Pulp Fiction as a Way of Escape in Malaysia appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Walker Books has acquired a children’s non-fiction series that helps children explore science, maths, politics and geography through football. The books are written by Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton and the first, The Football Academy, will be published in hardback in September 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
After 750 fans gave Judy Blume a standing ovation before she even said a word on stage, Jennifer Weiner kicked off an hour-long Q&A with Blume during BookCon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eight publishers' representatives kept the mood light as they introduced librarians to the anticipated titles of fall. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
German writer and director Jenny Erpenbeck has won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days (Portobello Books), translated by Susan Bernofsky, in the prize’s 25th anniversary year. Erpenbeck and Bernofsky were presented with the £10,000 award, which they will share, at a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperFiction has signed two new deals with writers discovered through its digital-first HarperImpulse programme. Debbie Johnson and Carmel Harrington were both originally published by HarperImpulse, which digitally published romantic fiction. Johnson has seen success with Cold Feet at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alexander McCall Smith has won this year’s Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, published by Birlinn imprint Polygon. This is the first time McCall Smith, the author of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series published by Little, Brown, has appeared on the comic... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite the much-discussed 15% drop in Christian fiction print unit sales from 2013 to 2014, as reported by Nielsen BookScan, publishers aren’t sounding the category’s death knell yet. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]