‘A White Heron’ is one of the best-known short stories by the American writer Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). Published in 1886 in the collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the story is about a young girl who is approached by a hunter who offers her money if she will […] Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2023-02-08 18:00:40 UTC ]
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Black & White Publishing will publish its first fantasy novel, Crown of Feathers, by Canadian author Nicki Pau Preto under its Ink Road imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The exposure of a novelist’s ‘dissembling’ could spell trouble for unreliable narrators everywhereThere’s a new work that has the publishing world gripped, with editors in London and New York confessing themselves hooked. It races along like a thriller, with several dizzying twists and turns and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Black & White Publishing will publish The Secret Life of Tartan: How a Cloth Shaped a Nation this autumn, by fashion designer Victoria ‘Vixy’ Rae. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twitter’s been on a tear to prove that even with a smaller audience than Facebook and YouTube, it can be a worthwhile destination for ads and publishers. The post Twitter’s Sarah Personette: Video and ‘brand purpose’ will continue to take center stage appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2018-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Educational Development Corp. posted sales of $32.5 million in fiscal 2015, with earnings of under $1 million. By fiscal 2018, revenue had soared to $112 million and profits topped $5 million, but Randall White acknowledges that EDC had lots of challenges in dealing with the explosive growth. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Texas Observer published an interesting piece Tuesday about a 74-year-old Dallas-area Republican activist named Ray Myers, who was a 2016 Republican National Convention delegate for Ted Cruz and a co-author of the 2018 Texas Republican Party’s official platform. Myers recently posted a... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2018-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Production company New Pictures has optioned the TV and film rights to Sarah Govett’s YA novel The Territory (Firefly Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crime writer Neil White will be moving from Bonnier Books UK to Hera Books, the newly formed digital publisher, in the New Year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has appointed Sarah McLean as international sales director with responsibility for the adult trade, adult special interest and children’s lists. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YA fantasy author Sarah J Maas will visit the UK this week to take part in events in London and Edinburgh. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three US historians are in the running for the $75,000 Cundill History Prize, the largest prize for a work of non-fiction in English, run by Canada's McGill University. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2018 is the year people wanted to read about politics. Barnes & Noble reported a 57% surge in sales of political books compared with last year. The sales spike was driven by books that have been selling like wildfire all year long, from Michael Wolff’s "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith’s third Cormoran Strike title Lethal White has bagged the ebook number one straight out of the gate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith has held the Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, with Lethal White (Sphere) selling 15,244 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In her memoir, Stephanie Clifford gives a vivid, detailed account of her encounter with Donald Trump in 2006 and its aftermath. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2018-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump in the White House may not be in bookshops just yet, but with the book in high demand one million copies have been printed in advance. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sarah Perry’s latest is a Gothic horror which makes us think about the human capacity for good and evil. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Donald Trump's White House is reeling following a one-two punch of revelations that cast doubt on the fealty of the president's closest advisers and risked further dividing his fractious staff.The first shot came in excerpts from an upcoming book by journalist Bob Woodward, "Fear: Trump in the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2018-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chris White is to leave his position as Waterstones’ fiction buyer after 14 years to move into publishing as a senior commissioning editor for Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Omarosa Manigault Newman was offered a US$15,000 (NZ$22,792)-a-month contract from US President Donald Trump's campaign to stay silent after being fired from her job as a White House aide by Chief of Staff John Kelly last December, according to her forthcoming book and people familiar with the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2018-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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