That 10% fee buys a novelist like me more than the chance of a big book deal – from a hand with the DIY to a shoulder to cry on after yet another knockbackA few weeks after the sudden death of my agent, Deborah Rogers, in 2014 the colleague deputed to take me on phoned. “I’ve found something in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-06-28 09:00:29 UTC ]
Notes on Grief will recount the life of ‘a remarkable man of kindness and charm’ and the author’s struggle to absorb his loss during lockdown last yearChimamanda Ngozi Adichie has written a memoir about the sudden death of her father in lockdown last year. Notes on Grief, by the Orange... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-11 14:18:53 UTC ]
The sudden death of Carolyn Reidy yesterday morning left many in publishing stunned. Abrams CEO Michael Jacobs remembered her as a woman "with great range, intellect, and joie de vivre." Agent Gail Hochman added, "I think there will be many candles lit for her." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
The TeNeues Media Group is mourning the death of publisher Hendrik teNeues, who passed away in Munich last week at the age of 67. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 07:06:49 UTC ]
South African bookselling chain Exclusive Books is mourning the sudden death of Lauren Watson, manager of its flagship Hyde Park store in Johannesburg. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the sudden death of Stan Collins this summer, his widow, Mary Collins plans to close Once Upon a Time Toys & Books in Biltmore Village in Asheville, N.C., the store they cofounded 23 years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The sudden death of Oscar Hijuelos at age 62 in October 2013 was a shock to the literary world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
The sudden death has been announced of Irish bookseller John McNamee, president of the European Booksellers Federation from 2005 to 2014. McNamee is understood to have suffered a heart attack at the weekend. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The book world has been stunned by the sudden death of Deborah Rogers, co-founder of Roger, Coleridge & White, and a woman who was midwife to some of contemporary fiction’s most significant authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In his new memoir, Rob Sheffield explores how karaoke lifted him out of existential doom after his wife's sudden death.Rob Sheffield is the kind of true-blue music nerd who'll pause his latest memoir — one with a subtitle promising a book about "the rituals of love & karaoke" — to address... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]