Once an afterthought, children's nonfiction publishing is experiencing a revolution, especially in the US, where the segment grew by 5% in 2012. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Classicist Natalie Haynes has turned her hand to novels, with Atlantic imprint Corvus set to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dorling Kindersley is taking a new direction, publishing a list of narrative non-fiction books... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver are among the finalists for the $45,000 Women's Prize, known formerly as the Orange Prize, which released its longlist today. Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver are among the finalists for the $45,000 Women's Prize, known formerly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new prize for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year, the Petrona Award, has announced its... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Coffee House Press, with two finalists, and Cinco Puntos Press join FSG and Pantheon with titles on the shortlist for this year's prestigious PEN Faulkner Award for fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Southern California author's first story collection draws from his experiences in high school basketball, plumbing sales and more.There's a subtle arc to Jim Gavin's first book, "Middle Men" (Simon & Schuster: 224 pp., $23). Gathering seven stories largely set in Southern California, it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is to merge its three non-fiction divisions into two imprints, creating a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
It is no surprise to see aphorism alive and thriving in our current celebrity climate. The forgotten, it may be assumed, never said anything interesting, whereas choice words of the famous live forever at cocktail parties and in book reviews. To carry a portfolio of pithy quotations is to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The shortlist for the 2012 International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been announced in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Egmont Press has acquired a debut historical fiction title, The Executioner's Daughter, by TV... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency has appointed David Haviland to build a fiction list, with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder Children’s Books has acquired a new series, Foxy Fiction, by author Caryl Hart and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lion Hudson is launching a fiction imprint “as a platform for Christian novelists from all... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is planning to expand its non-fiction publishing output and has appointed Georgina... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Cottrell Boyce’s The Unforgotten Coat, published by Walker, has won the 2012 Guardian... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Individual donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, ebook site Bilbary, Cherie Blair... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Piccadilly Press is claiming to be the first publisher to have harnessed the 50 Shades-generated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of digital fiction books increased by 188% in value terms in the first half of the year,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Eric Obenauf, the publisher and editor-in-chief of Two Dollar Radio, the indie press headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, wants the seven-year-old company to publish more nonfiction, but he doesn’t want to produce more than the five or six titles—primarily fiction—that the publisher currently... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]