An Insider’s Guide to How One UK Agency Places Its Writers

Andrew Lownie, recently short-listed for The Bookseller UK literary agent of the year, explains how the agency goes about selling its authors. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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Guide to the classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — still for the heretics, dreamers and rebels

First published in 1865, Lewis Carroll's children's book has never been out of print. It continues to appeal to adults who prefer childhood. Continue reading at The Conversation

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Scholastic to bring Callender's Hurricane Child to UK

Scholastic UK has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Kacen Callender's Hurricane Child, with publication slated for June 2021.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 07:44:38 UTC ]
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'Positive results' in 2020 for Bonnier Books UK

Bonnier Books–owner of Bonnier Books UK and part of Sweden's Bonnier Group–has said the UK arm achieved "positive results" in 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Kazuo and Naomi Ishiguro join Southbank Centre's Inside Out season

Father and daughter Kazuo and Naomi Ishiguro will come together at an event for the first time in the Southbank Centre's "Inside Out" season, organisers have announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-14 18:59:02 UTC ]
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The UK’s Publishers Association Releases Its New Diversity Report

The fourth annual diversity survey of British publishing shows progress in women's leadership, slower movement in BAME employment. The post The UK’s Publishers Association Releases Its New Diversity Report appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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How colonialism and capitalism helped place a stigma on mental illness

What’s considered “normal” is contingent on culture, Roy Richard Grinker explains. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Joan Didion’s ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’ shows a writer ahead of her time

Didion’s writing has often revealed what was previously hidden, parsed what was unconscious. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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PRH UK to publish four from inauguration poet Amanda Gorman

Penguin Random House UK is to publish four books from Amanda Gorman, the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history, including a special edition of “The Hill We Climb” which she read at Joe Biden's inauguration. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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STREET WRITER: The literary video game we didn’t know we needed.

Tired of the subtweets? The peevish reviews? The [gasp] indecorous email sign-offs? Do you wish the literary world would just conduct its brawls out in the open for all to see? Well, now you can fight along at home with Street Writer, Maxwell Neely-Cohen’s absolutely wonderful literary homage to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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A New Guide to the Black Comic Book Community

'The Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community 2020-2021', is the first in a series of reference works that will showcase creators of color who released books in 2020 as well as industry institutions and events that spotlight their works. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors

The new award comes with £1,000 and is geared to writers from 'Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.' The post Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Purdy launches Two Piers Literary Agency

A Brighton-based literary agency launches this week, headed by former Curtis Brown editor Rufus Purdy.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Smith departs HoZ for Bonnier Books UK's Embla

Bonnier Books UK has appointed Hannah Smith as editorial director of its new digital-first imprint Embla Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Reading Agency literacy programme backed by McNab and Parks

The Reading Agency is relaunching its Reading Ahead literacy programme on 1st February with a new digital platform, and support from authors including Andy McNab, Adele Parks and Martina Cole. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Evaristo to mentor emerging writers of colour in Sky Arts project

Bernardine Evaristo is collaborating with the Royal Society of Literature to create a mentoring award scheme for emerging authors of colour as part of a £300,000 Sky Arts project. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Gill's Gough joins HarperCollins Ireland as O'Brien steps up in UK

HarperCollins Ireland has appointed Catherine Gough from Gill Books as commissioning editor, while in the UK there is a promotion for Avon and HarperFiction marketing director Hannah O'Brien. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Jamie-Lee Nardone from Black Crow PR on starting your own agency

Jamie-Lee Nardone, the founder of the newly set up boutique marketing and events agency Black Crow, shares her process for setting up her own PR agency. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Atlantic Books acquires ‘dazzlingly original’ guide to fandom in politics

Atlantic Books has acquired I Heart Politics: Why Fandom Explains What's Really Going On, Phoenix C S Andrews’ "dazzlingly original" guide to fandom in politics.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Monique Roffey Wins the UK’s Costa 2020 Book of the Year Award

Roffey's book, based on a Taino legend, is set in 1976 on the Caribbean island of Black Conch. Tessa Sheridan has won the Short Story Award. The post Monique Roffey Wins the UK’s Costa 2020 Book of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Hachette Children's acquires Hill's 'myth-busting and celebratory' guide to periods

Hachette Children’s Group has secured the rights to My Period: Find Your Flow and Feel Period Positive!, the "one-stop positive guide to getting your period" from author and journalist Milli Hill. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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