The 85-year-old’s Book of Lives promises to lift the lid on her unconventional Canadian upbringing, prize-winning writing career, and the experiences that shaped her workMargaret Atwood has written the memoir her fans have long been hoping for, it has been announced.In Book of Lives, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 17:30:32 UTC ]
I remember the first time I met Courtney Maum. It was nearly ten years ago, a spring or maybe summer day in Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens. We were both in our twenties, no books published yet, just a few free essays here and there, just starting our writing careers with the fierce intensity of Jack... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-07-18 08:52:29 UTC ]
I set up The Middle Way Mentoring Project, a two year professional development scheme, to support early-career writers take the next step in their writing career. Through my work managing a small press I met plenty of ‘nearly there’ writers who weren’t able to take the next step. These writers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-20 21:18:59 UTC ]
Costa Award-winning author Christie Watson, who worked a registered nurse for 20 years before her writing career, has been appointed professor of medical and health humanities at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 23:05:45 UTC ]
Susanna Moore’s memoir “Miss Aluminum” is a provocative look at the early circumstances that shaped her writing career. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-04-14 09:00:20 UTC ]
Jason Rekulak has resigned as publisher of Quirk Books in order to "further pursue his writing career and other creative projects." Brett Cohen, the president of Quirk, has taken over as publisher, effective immediately. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-01-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
With over 7.8 million copies sold in the Baxter Family series alone and a new collection on the way, Christian fiction star Karen Kingsbury reflects on her writing career. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
From cod to colouring, fashions come and go in books. What do they tell us about our culture, and can we predict what’s next? After the long, wet winter, the season is finally on the turn. I know this partly because the instinct to hunker down in a nest of books is giving way to an urge to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
An Oscar nominee at age 9, Quvenzhane Wallis is now getting an early start on a writing career. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2015-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Novelist Lauraine Snelling has authored 80 books since she began her writing career in 1982, has more than two million books in print, and has just published the first in her fifth historical series set among Norwegian immigrants to North Dakota, where her mother was born and raised: “Strong... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Driscoll, who recently weathered plagiarism charges, has made headlines once again, this time for hiring a company that manipulates bestseller lists. Now the Seattle pastor is stepping back from his writing career to focus on his church. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Driscoll, who recently weathered plagiarism charges, has made headlines once again, this time for hiring a company that manipulates bestsellers lists. Now the Seattle pastor is stepping back from his writing career to focus on his church. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]