With its stellar track record of retail success—including more than 50 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers—Greenleaf has been a proven innovator within the hybrid publishing world for 25 years and counting. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-09-11 04:00:00 UTC ]
Hollywood can’t resist a literary adaptation. Frontlist, backlist—it’s all fodder for screenplays. The publishing world itself also feeds the insatiable page-to-screen pipeline: from 1930s and ’40s screwball satires about newspaper reporters (His Girl Friday, Meet John Doe, Mr. Deeds Goes to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-08-18 08:53:31 UTC ]
Books about books have always been super popular, but there are a lot of romance novels set in the publishing world in 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-04-29 10:34:00 UTC ]
PW looks back at the library stories that captivated the publishing world this year—and what they portend for 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
Marlowe Granados is the guest. Her debut novel, Happy Hour, is out now from Verso Books. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: Marlowe Granados: I think that you have to wait a little bit for the correct timing. That was my main gripe with the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-11-09 09:50:34 UTC ]
I used the term ‘sensitivity readers’ for the first time the other day, and I immediately felt angry at myself. It’s a concept (or service) that I’ve been involved in for a few years now, and yet only recently have I learned of the now well-established title of the ‘sensitivity reader’ in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-01 05:57:17 UTC ]
The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes. Now she has won the £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize for her debut, A Kind of SparkWhen Scottish author Elle McNicoll was first trying to enter the publishing world, she was repeatedly told that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-01 05:01:05 UTC ]
London Book Fair is online this year. On 30 June, the focus falls on making words travel, with a programme addressing writers, translators, and the ways that books can travel across borders. The British Council is partnering with English PEN and the Literary Translation Centre on three free... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2021-06-02 10:20:41 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 ]
From Sally Rooney to Raven Leilani, female novelists have captured the literary zeitgeist, with more buzz, prizes and bestsellers than men. But is this cultural shift something to celebrate or rectify?In March, Vintage, one of the UK’s largest literary fiction divisions, announced the five debut... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-05-16 06:00:48 UTC ]
Carsten Coesfeld took over as DK CEO days before Covid-19 shut down the publishing world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
Translating novels, short stories, and poetry into English in a way that remains true to their original form can take years, even decades of dedication. And then there is the job of persuading the Anglophone publishing world to take chances. Translators’ labor is ultimately rewarding for readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-12-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
PW looks back at the library stories that captivated the publishing world this year—and what they portend for 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-12-11 05:00:00 UTC ]
Following its its success in the US, the ethical platform Bookshop.org has arrived in the UK, marking an exciting new chapter for independent stores onlineIn publishing we often talk about things that we are “excited” and “delighted” about, so much that sometimes I think the words have lost... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-05 08:00:40 UTC ]
Fred Klein, who helped make Bantam Books a major force in mass market paperback publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 22. He was described by a former colleague as "the greatest ringmaster the publishing world has ever known.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-02 05:00:00 UTC ]
Bolinda has scooped a “laugh out loud” romantic comedy by debut author Aly Mennuti, featuring a literary agent based partly on the author's own, Simon Trewin. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-25 02:20:12 UTC ]
When I started writing my current novel, Paris Never Leaves You, I had no idea the protagonist, a young widow struggling to survive in Occupied Paris, would end up working in a New York publishing house. I knew she would get to America, but I assumed she would enter the fashion or beauty... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-07-31 08:48:22 UTC ]
Today’s publishers are working to survive in a new reality where media consumption is up, but revenues are down. Let’s examine three ways publishers can thrive — not just survive — and prepare for success in the next normal. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Executive | 2020-06-30 20:16:23 UTC ]
As Black Lives Matter protests take place across the world, the publishing world is rushing to support those ‘ignored by the mainstream’. Who is the mainstream, then?The publishing industry is stilted and archaic. I worked in it for seven years, and left due to reasons I can’t legally talk... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-11 09:44:22 UTC ]
Pandemic Dispatches Elena Poniatowska In this column that originally appeared in La Jornada, Elena Poniatowska considers the role of editors and talks with Diego Rabasa, founder of publisher Sexto Piso. Already precarious, the pandemic lockdown has made... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-06-03 21:05:48 UTC ]