As the facts of climate change manifest in real life, authors are finding that the future is all too present. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Los Angeles independent publisher Unnamed Press has unveiled Smith & Taylor Classics, a new imprint helmed by acquiring editors Allison Miriam Woodnutt (née Smith) and Brandon Taylor, author of 'Real Life,' 'Filthy Animals,' and 'The Late Americans.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-07-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers is currently in its fourth year. We are a weekly podcast for writers craving a unique blend of inspiration and real talk about the ups and downs of the writing life. Hosted by Brooke Warner of She Writes and Grant Faulkner of National Novel Writing... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-01-22 09:01:33 UTC ]
The Apple TV+ film Tetris was copied from a book written years ago, according to a lawsuit filed against the tech giant and the Tetris Company. Dan Ackerman, the editor-in-chief of Gizmodo, has accused the plaintiffs of ripping off his book The Tetris Effect, which tells the history of the game... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-08-09 06:17:44 UTC ]
Niantic has created some of the most popular augmented reality games like Ingress and Pokémon Go. But this week the company is launching a new title called NBA All-World that might be the best application of its location-based tech to date.For people who have played one of Niantic’s previous... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-01-25 17:00:37 UTC ]
Translated by Charlotte Whittle The novel, Looking Back by Colombian author Juan Gabriel Vázquez, which has won a major literary prize in Mexico, will have many readers. It is one of the great novels to have been written in Spanish and its author tells us that the events it portrays also... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-09-23 08:52:19 UTC ]
A debut author draws on real life to write a novel that doesn’t shy away from telling the truth. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-22 05:00:00 UTC ]
Seven German book publishers—'competitors in real life,' says Klett-Cotta publisher Tom Kraushaar—look forward to the next gathering. The post German Independents: Klett-Cotta’s Tom Kraushaar and ‘Publisher Days’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-07-15 17:11:43 UTC ]
Serpent's Tail has acquired former "Great British Bake Off" contestant Ruby Tandoh’s new cookbook, Cook as You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks and Messy Kitchens. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 15:36:40 UTC ]
New York Times best-selling author Samantha Irby may have become a household name (in certain households, anyway) following the massive success of her 2017 essay collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, but I fell in love with her hilariously funny and shamelessly honest work on her blog,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-05-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
Usborne has acquired Tamsin Winter’s new novel Girl, In Real Life, as well as a second untitled book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 22:31:50 UTC ]
In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-18 10:00:07 UTC ]
In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-18 10:00:07 UTC ]
The debut novel examines the lives of people who are more interested in how they appear online than who they are in real life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-21 17:44:04 UTC ]
Every now and then I encounter people who can’t suspend disbelief. They ask how I can write about ‘such terrible things’Feeling unappreciated is your lot as a writer. Few readers; no readers. Scathing reviews; no reviews. Publishers saying, “Don’t call us, we’ll call you” or not taking a punt on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-03 17:00:27 UTC ]
Century will this month publish a US conspiracy thriller - "rooted in real life, but not 'a true story'" - featuring "a controversial and wealthy tycoon who is running for President of the United States and a former porn star who is ready to go public with details of their affair". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jordan Belfort, the real life "Wolf of Wall Street", is in court following a row over royalties from his latest book, Way of the Wolf. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sexual relations in fiction and nonfiction, gender relations in real life, the world of insects in our neighborhood, and historical fiction aboug genius–all play into our rights roundup, which brings together work originally published in English, Swedish, and Norwegian. The post Rights Roundup:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst is joining the experiential marketing world with an installation created for Netflix and its hit teen show "13 Reasons Why."The publisher is erecting a wall of actual high school-like lockers on both coasts where people can take Polaroids, write confessionals on the snapshots, and post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
“We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” Samantha Irby’s collection of candid, funny and deliberate essays will make you laugh until you pee and cry and ache in your belly. It’s like nothing you’ve ever read, because Irby is like no one you’ve ever met, although you will never really know, because... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]