Small Press Distribution, which has brought titles from hundreds of independent publishers to readers for more than 50 years, is in urgent need of financial help to keep from folding. A GoFundMe campaign is aiming to raise $100,000 to cover its next month of costs, including health care for its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-21 15:11:21 UTC ]
Cinco Puntos Press launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $250,000, as did Small Press Distribution, which is seeking $100,000. Lambda Literary, the LGBTQ-focused group, is asking for $175,000 to survive. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-21 04:00:00 UTC ]
The nine winners of the regional and country round of the British Book Awards Small Press of the Year accolade have been revealed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-18 11:49:39 UTC ]
Book Riot picks 30 exciting small press books published in 2020, from 25 different publishers, that we can't wait for you to read. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-02-27 11:36:43 UTC ]
Independent publisher Riverdale Avenue Books has acquired the assets of Circlet Press, an independent small press focused on science-fiction and fantasy works with sex-positive erotic themes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-26 05:00:00 UTC ]
The Small Press of the Year Award returns for a second year: last year the overall award was won by Bath-based publisher Wild Things Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-21 11:25:57 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 ]
FOR THE FIRST two-plus decades of its existence (it was founded in 1979), the Library of America — a small press devoted to “publishing America’s greatest writing in authoritative new editions” — hewed closely to the established canon: Melville, Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Thoreau, Henry James, Edith... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-12-13 13:30:11 UTC ]
Here are the 78 best book covers of the year, according to the best designers in the industry. | Lit Hub “Why would you have children in this uncertain world?” How two new books grapple with the ethics of parenthood. | Lit Hub Five great small press audiobooks to gift anyone on your list... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-25 11:30:31 UTC ]
For book lovers, Small Business Saturday means a trip to the local independent bookstore, many of which invite local authors to hang out and make recommendations. If you’re an audiobook lover you can still support small businesses, and I don’t mean purchasing your audiobooks on compact disc. Ask... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-25 09:48:59 UTC ]
The small indie press boom is among us. In both 2017 and 2018, a whopping 40% or more of the National Book Awards longlists included titles from university and independent presses. It’s an exciting time for small presses— never before have there been so many diverse books in the mainstream... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-29 11:00:48 UTC ]
If you happened to be at the farmer’s market in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park this past Saturday, you might have trailed the vendor tents across the street to Grand Army Plaza and landed in the 2019 Small Press Flea, two concentric circles of book fair tables set up between the Soldiers’ and Sailors’... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-28 08:47:44 UTC ]
Debut author Sarah J. Sover talks about finding the perfect home for her comedic fantasy novel Double-Crossing the Bridge with the indie publisher The Parliament House. The post Breaking In: Fantasy author Sarah J. Sover on Finding Home at a Small Press by Cassandra Lipp appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-08-15 14:00:43 UTC ]
English entrepreneur and ZE Records cofounder Michael Zilkha has launched ZE Books, a new small press that will publish "literary mix-tapes from visionary writers, artists, and musicians." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
In light of the Reflecting Realities report, Katrina Gutierrez explains how the industry can better support small presses working to increase representation in children's books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attendance continues to grow at the MoCCA Arts Fest 2018, an annual celebration of indie, small press, and self-published graphic novels, held at the Metropolitan Event Space on the Westside of Manhattan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The small press in Green Bay, Wisc., which specializes in true crime and survivor stories, is moving in new directions with the launches of a children’s imprint and an imprint focusing on books with religious themes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The South Dakota Historical Society Press is hoping that lightning will strike twice at BookExpo: this year, the small press is promoting "Pioneer Girl Perpectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, 150 years after Wilder’s birth on February 7, 1867. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waldorf Publishing refuses to accept such terms as “boutique” or “small press” as descriptive nomenclature for the company. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Heat-Moon, author of the bestselling 1982 travel memoir 'Blue Highways,' struck a deal with small New York press Three Rooms to publish his first novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]