As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-10-31 09:02:34 UTC ]
From cancelled books to ‘review bombing’, it might seem as though the website can make or break a career. But how influential is it really?Something dramatic happens on a social media platform every day. On Goodreads, the anachronistically designed website for logging, rating (out of five) and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-02-17 09:00:10 UTC ]
The former BBC war reporter, now special correspondent, on the terror of PTSD, his tips for living with it day to day, and the people and poets he admiresDuring a career spanning more than 30 years, BBC special correspondent Fergal Keane has covered brutal conflicts in South Africa, Rwanda and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-08-06 08:30:06 UTC ]
An April report by the UK-based publishing site, The Bookseller, showed that more than half of the debut authors they surveyed said the experience of publishing a book adversely affected their mental health. Further reporting from The Guardian reveals that (some) publishers have quickly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-19 19:03:31 UTC ]
After a survey revealed the stresses that authors face when placed in the spotlight for the first time, publishing houses and industry bodies have pledged extra training and pastoral careAuthor and publisher welfare has been a hot topic in the books industry of late. Publishing houses, trade... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-07-18 15:13:43 UTC ]
Author Salman Rushdie among those angry after some passages relating to weight, gender, mental health and race were rewrittenCritics are accusing the British publisher of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s books of censorship after it removed colourful language from works such as Charlie and the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-02-20 04:05:42 UTC ]
Audio production company Audio Up Media and book publishing house Harlequin Enterprises are teaming up to adapt 52 of the publisher's romance titles into scripted podcast series, with an eye to also turn these into--more highly monetizable--TV series. Audio Up, also home to mental health and... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2022-12-06 12:42:46 UTC ]
If you have unprocessed trauma, $50,000, and a sense of adventure when it comes to your mental health, a new “wellness recovery program” created by Augusten Burroughs—author of the best-selling memoir Running With Scissors—may be right up your alley. The week-long program, called Focus-Directed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-08 14:41:32 UTC ]
Among the most popular books in US public libraries between October and December 2021 were nonfiction about mental health. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-02-04 11:41:00 UTC ]
I’ve been writing about mental health for years. Not as many as I’ve been living with my own clinical depression, but certainly for over a decade now. It has, until last year, been mainly in blog form—direct, first-hand accounts of my own experiences as a man with mental health issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-28 16:35:15 UTC ]
Will Young has written an accessible A-Z guide on mental health, Be Yourself and Happier, for Ebury Spotlight. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-10 07:27:21 UTC ]
Mirion Malle (This Is How I Disappear) and Sophie Yanow (The Contradictions) spoke to one another as part of D+Q Live, a fall event series by the graphic novel publisher Drawn & Quarterly. The occasion was Malle’s second English-language release and first work of fiction, This Is How I... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-29 09:54:22 UTC ]
New books by women writers of faith tackle racism, abortion, mental health, and other tough subjects. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-19 05:00:00 UTC ]
Hosted annually by the ECPA, 2021’s Art of Writing took place virtually from Sept. 30—Nov. 4 with webinars touching on the need for authentic representations of diverse people, the impacts of Covid-19 on writers, and other challenges within the Christian publishing industry today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (JKP) is launching a new podcast supporting the mental health of children and teens called "Our Kids in Mind". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-18 23:02:32 UTC ]
Interviews Photo by Kari Gunter-Seymour / www.karigunterseymourpoet.com Kari Gunter-Seymour (b. 1955) is having a moment—soon to become two years of moments since she was appointed in June 2020 to a two-year term as the Poet Laureate of Ohio.... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-07 13:41:36 UTC ]
Reedsy's Thao Nguyen reflects on some of the benefits and challenges of being your own boss. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 12:07:00 UTC ]
From COVID-19 vaccines to mental health, officials see barbers as playing an important role in advancing public health. In a barbershop in North St. Louis County, owner Randy Barnes listens as one of his barbers tells him that COVID-19 vaccines cause women to become infertile. That barber had... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2021-08-11 07:00:54 UTC ]
Piers Morgan really gets my goat. I suppose I should be grateful to have one of the many Twitter accounts he’s blocked over the years. But as someone who works in mental health, Morgan’s relentless stigmatising rhetoric, including his recent attack on gymnast Simone Biles for speaking openly... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-30 19:59:44 UTC ]
DK has teamed up with the Manchester United Foundation to distribute books encouraging local children to look after their mental health. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-14 08:02:35 UTC ]