#Fiction

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Women's Fiction prize returns, announces longlist

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 ]

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New award targets Scandinavian crime fiction

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 ]

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Small Publishers Rule Pen/Faulkner Fiction Award Shortlist

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 ]

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Jim Gavin talks about the mix of fact and fiction in 'Middle Men'

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 ]

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HarperCollins merges non-fiction divisions

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 ]

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How Fiction Doesn’t Work

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 ]

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Shortlist for International Prize for Arabic Fiction

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 ]

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Egmont acquires historical fiction debut

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 ]

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Andrew Lownie to grow fiction

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 ]

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Hodder picks up foxy fiction

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 ]

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Lion Hudson launches Christian fiction imprint

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 ]

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John Murray steps up non-fiction output

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 ]

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Cottrell Boyce wins Guardian Children's Fiction Prize

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 ]

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Women's Prize for Fiction to be 'privately funded' for 2013

Individual donors including Christopher Foyle, Joanna Trollope, ebook site Bilbary, Cherie Blair... Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]

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'Steamy' YA fiction from Piccadilly

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 ]

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PA half year: Fiction ebook sales increased 188%

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 ]

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Two Dollar Radio Starts Nonfiction Journal

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 ]

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Serial e-fiction from Amazon

Amazon is planning to take a Charles Dickens approach to publishing with the launch of fiction in... Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Apple 'in talks' over Women's Prize for Fiction sponsorship

Apple has held talks with the organisers of the Women's Prize for Fiction with a view to... Continue reading >>
[ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Author expects fiction revolution

The rise of ebooks will "fundamentally change" the types of stories that are written and who they are written by, award-winning author Denise Mina predicts. Continue reading >>
[ Source: BBC News | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]

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