Acquiring editors face a daunting task when it comes to Christian and inspirational fiction: find gifted writers with strong voices presenting distinctive stories to lure readers looking for familiar yet unique, similar yet special books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Someone really ought to weave a tale about selling Christian and inspirational fiction: the overcrowded market, the distracted readers, and the rewards for those who overcome the odds. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fiction Uncovered, the annual prize highlighting works by British writers, is to be renamed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aurum Publishing Group has appointed Rachel Williams as publisher of a new non-fiction imprint,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
ReadZone Books will this year publish stories from Fiction Express - an e-fiction venture that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Innovative and energetic publishers such as And Other Stories and Dalkey Archive are finding new routes to a committed audience"We were dreaming of freedom; we woke up in capitalism," is Slovenian writer Drago Jančar's wry comment at the launch of Dalkey Archive's anthology of short stories,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Agent Scully actress will use her 'ingrained knowledge and rhythm' for SF to pen multi-volume EarthEnd SagaAfter delving into the paranormal for years as The X-Files' resident sceptic Dr Dana Scully, actor Gillian Anderson is set to create her own science-fictional universe – but this time in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
'The Invention of Wings' by Sue Monk Kidd is receiving rave reviews and was recently selected as the latest pick for Oprah Winfrey's revamped book club. But how much of the book actually comes from history? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The second Twitter fiction festival, searching for authors from across the world to tell stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
HBO's award-winning adaptations are novelistic in ambition, but TV executives hoping to follow Game of Thrones should look to the starsIt's almost commonplace to suggest that the HBO box set is now television's answer to the novel – witness the wily self-publishers who have started publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Indie publishing via online writing communities and ebooks can provide valuable feedback, and even set you on the path to mainstream successNews that a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers doesn't surprise me. I started out writing online. Fed up with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2013-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has launched a new social media community, The Hot Bed, to promote the "New Adult" genre complete with a "chili chart" to gauge hotness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science fiction has a long tradition in North Korea and SF authors enjoy greater freedom to explore edgy subjects, such as crime and violence, than their counterparts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
You can't necessarily judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot about the content from it. For instance, when a certain font is paired with an illustrated character portrait featuring a dangling cigarette and/or a dangerous dame, clearly you are holding a pulpy detective novel from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new study finds that reading literary fiction “leads people to perform better on tests that measure empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The National Book Award for nonfiction longlist screams "USA, USA..." with 8 of the 10 titles covering American history, biography, cultural analysis, music, and religion. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has signed a trilogy of novels from historian Kate Williams. Jon Wood, deputy group... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It's a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by the National Book Foundation this week.So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It’s a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A pair of best-selling works by staff writers for The New Yorker, Lawrence Wright's "Going Clear" and George Packer's "The Unwinding," were among 10 books chosen for the nonfiction long-list of the National Book Awards.Besides Mr. Wright's investigation of Scientology and Packer's bleak account... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]