Our favorite books coming out this week include new titles from Andre Dubus III, Juno Dawson, and Ivy Pochoda. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-06-02 04:00:00 UTC ]
Among the week's headlines: bomb threats over Juno Dawson's 'This Book Is Gay' highlight the increasing threat level librarians and teachers are facing; Missouri lawmakers vote to defund the state's public libraries; and PEN America's Nadine Farid Johnson tells Congress that the country is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Since 2011, all my book editors have been white. Why wouldn’t I want another perspective on the characters I invent?Until a few years ago, only publishing industry insiders would have understood the role of the sensitivity reader. Then came American Dirt. The Jeanine Cummins novel sold to a US... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-03-08 09:00:06 UTC ]
HarperVoyager has snared YA writer Juno Dawson's first three adult novels, a trilogy set around a government agency for witches, at auction in a six-figure deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 18:39:44 UTC ]
Juno Dawson has won the YA Book Prize 2020 with her “gritty and compelling” exposé of the fashion industry, Meat Market (Quercus Children’s Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 20:01:44 UTC ]
Independent production company The Lighthouse has optioned Juno Dawson's YA trilogy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-27 00:45:39 UTC ]
Juno Dawson answers our questions about her exposé of the fashion industry, Meat Market (Quercus Children's Books), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-16 11:54:29 UTC ]
The International Literature Showcase is a partnership between the National Centre for Writing and British Council. It aims to showcase amazing writers based in the UK to programmers, publishers and teachers of literature in English around the world. To do so, we have invited six leading writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-08-10 10:05:02 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books, Scholastic and Walker Books have two titles apiece on the shortlist for the YA Book Prize 2019, which includes books by the award’s inaugural winner Louise O’Neill, as well as Juno Dawson, Laura Dockrill and début author Muhammad Khan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former children’s laureate Chris Riddell has three books nominated for the 2019 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, whilst authors Sita Brahmachari, Juno Dawson and Emma Carroll appear twice on the list of nominations for the Carnegie Medal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unstoppable Film & Television has acquired the production rights to Juno Dawson’s upcoming YA novel Meat Market (Quercus Children’s Books), about a 16-year-old girl who is catapulted from her South London council estate to the international world of fashion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV rights to Juno Dawson’s memoir The Gender Games (Two Roads) have been optioned by Benedict Cumberbatch's production outfit SunnyMarch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Naomi Alderman and Juno Dawson are both contributing to Penguin Random House's Doctor Who publishing this autumn, celebrating the debut of Jodie Whittaker as the "Thirteenth Doctor". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Juno Dawson has pulled out of the Bradford Literature Festival after expressing concern about what she called "bigoted" speakers slated to attend the event. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Children’s Group has struck a multi-book deal with Juno Dawson following a "hotly-contested" auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Juno Dawson and illustrator Alex T Smith have teamed up to create a YA novel, which will be published by Barrington Stoke in October next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Juno Dawson’s next YA novel will be a historical romance set partly in the 1940s. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]