Amplify, a NewsCorp educational venture focused on using technology to transform K-12 education, showed off its much-anticipated English Language Arts digital curriculum during an online press conference last week. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Megan Nolan's "Acts of Desperation," about a woman in thrall to an older man, stands out from similar tales with an uncannily self-aware narrator. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-03 15:00:19 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#debut novel
#older man
Picador has triumphed in an 11-publisher auction for Everything's Fine by debut US author Cecilia Rabess, amid a scramble for rights around the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-03 01:54:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#picador
#picador triumphs
The Jerusalem forum has announced digital programming elements for May, with an eye to a physical event in 2022. The post A Digital Jerusalem International Book Forum Opens for 2021 Registration appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-03-02 01:16:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#physical event
Hodder Studios has pre-empted two books from Sarah Bonner, including her debut novel Her Perfect Twin, described as an "original, compelling and propulsive" thriller. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 10:16:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#hodder
#debut novel
#debut thriller
Virago has acquired the debut novel by Sharma Taylor, What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You, at auction as part of a two-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 03:02:12 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#debut novel
#deeply moving
Charlotte Ritchie, the star of “Ghosts” and “Feel Good”, will narrate the audiobook of Lia Middleton's debut thriller When They Find Her (Michael Joseph). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-28 22:42:39 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#audiobook
#feel good
In the face of COVID-19, many book festivals have moved online. Here's what's worked, what hasn't, and what the future might hold for them. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-02-26 11:38:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#digital book
#moved online
#book festivals
In “The Committed,” a follow-up to “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism’s ghosts. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-02-26 10:00:03 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#debut novel
Sparked by a strong fourth quarter, Simon & Schuster finished 2020 with both sales and earnings up about 11% over 2019. A slew of adult nonfiction hits helped to drive the gains. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-25 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The list of rights and licensing events grows as March without London Book Fair approaches. And Regency romance has its day online. The post Publishing’s Specialized Digital Events: Piling Up Higher and ‘Heyer’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-24 16:13:02 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#london book fair
#regency romance
#post publishing
Hodder Studio will publish comedian Phil Wang’s debut Sidesplitter: How to be from Two Worlds at Once, exploring his experience of living between England and Malaysia. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-24 08:45:25 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#hodder
#hodder studio
Resourceful publicists are having to be inventive to launch debuts as the lockdown rumbles on and shops remain closed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 09:01:07 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Coronet will publish Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s debut Spinning Plates, offering “part memoir, part musings” and “how to navigate life in the face of failure and imperfection”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 06:15:14 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#high notes
Fourth Estate has won a four-publisher auction for Eloghosa Osunde’s “radical and thrilling debut novel Vagabonds! Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 01:47:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#four-publisher auction
#fourth estate
How do online rights events organized by literary agencies, publishers, and others compare to the physical book fair experience? We hear from several rights folks on how it's going so far. The post Waiting for the Plane Tickets: Rights Pros on Digital Events appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2021-02-19 18:49:46 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#physical book
#literary agencies
#digital events
Kyle Books will publish the debut book from the hosts of the "Things You Can’t Ask Yer Mum" podcast, Lindsey Holland and Lizzy Hadfield. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 17:04:35 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#debut book
#kyle books
#publish debut
J D Kirk’s Ahead of the Game (Zertex Crime) headed straight into the Bookstat e-book chart number one for the week ending 13th February. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 09:27:21 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#e-book
#bookstat chart
Pushkin Press has acquired Collected Works, the literary debut of Swedish writer Lydia Sandgren, about a middle-aged publisher and the void left behind by his missing wife. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-12 13:47:58 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#void left
#pushkin press
Wildfire has pre-empted former Home Secretary and memoirist Alan Johnson’s debut novel, The Late Train to Gipsy Hill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 23:51:47 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#debut novel
#alan johnson
Quercus is getting ready to launch the debut of astronaut Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders, branded "an exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race", this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-09 16:29:44 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#space race
#dark heart