Sound too good to be true? Well I have news for you, dear aspiring writer, you can get yourself a phone call or a manuscript critique from a fancy literary agent by bidding at this year’s Literary Agents of Change Auction. The LAOC is an organization that believes that advancing the publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-06-15 17:12:39 UTC ]
Every few months, I receive an email or phone call from someone who claims to work for a literary agency or publishing entity. In the lengthy messages variegated with bold-faced sentences, or voicemails in which the speaker mispronounces my maiden name, I’m promised six-figure book deals with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-22 08:52:55 UTC ]
News and Events Mariah Rust and Xin Xu recently were named the recipients of the fourth annual translation prize for students sponsored by World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma. Consistent with World Literature Today’s commitment to... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-20 16:07:11 UTC ]
Joan Bingham was a good friend, a hard-working colleague, and a wonderful partner in Grove Atlantic. Starting with a phone call in the spring of 1992, she set in motion the events that led to the merger of Grove Weidenfeld and Atlantic Monthly Press to create this mid-sized independent literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-13 09:48:41 UTC ]
Courtney Friel claims in her upcoming book that the proposition was made during a phone call before he became presidentA former Fox News reporter has added her name to the list of nearly two dozen women who have accused Donald Trump of making unwanted sexual advances towards them. In a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-01-03 18:46:02 UTC ]
Galley Beggar Press was facing ruin after the collapse of The Book People, but the public has supplied Christmas magic of a kind I don’t usually buy intoIf a novelist had submitted a story to my publishing company about someone losing £40,000 one day and then regaining it the next, thanks to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-12-19 17:31:08 UTC ]
In this week’s episode of A Phone Call From Paul, Paul Holdengraber and John Waters discuss his new memoir, Mr. Know-It-All (or as he describes, a “self-help book for lunatics,” what he’s reading this summer, and his experience working for Mary Oliver at her bookstore in Provincetown. From the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-18 08:48:16 UTC ]
In this episode of A Phone Call With Paul, Paul Holdengraber speaks with David Ulin, writer, and former book critic of the Los Angeles Times, about the dramatic changes in Los Angeles, the literature of the city, and his work on Joan Didion. From the episode: Paul Holdengraber: What are the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-10 08:47:10 UTC ]
Conde Nast Traveler magazine will feature Kihei-based vintage car-rental company Maui Roadsters on the cover of its June/July issue. Maui Roadsters has already been featured in various online magazines and on the September 2014 cover of Destination Weddings & Honeymoons magazine. Click on a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2016-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
When Laura Ruby got the phone call from the Printz committee this past Sunday, informing her that she had won the 2016 award, she was attending a lecture at Hamline University in St. Paul. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
The past week of digital marketing data involved everything from serious stats on Facebook's diminishing referrals for some publishers to the a goofy clip-on man bun going viral on Groupon. 1. Snapchat video views have tripled since May and now total 6 billion every day, according to a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2015-11-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
At first we looked at Minecraft as the basis for an interesting case study about how the Internet has changed things for entrepreneurs,” said Linus Larsson, coauthor of Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus “Notch” Persson and the Game that Changed Everything (which is coming from Seven Stories... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]