Raised by a cult-following father who banned reading, homeless on London’s streets as a teen: Melanie Blake’s life story is remarkable—but it’s not the one she decided to commit to the page, and she is now intent on getting into readers’ hands. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 22:03:31 UTC ]
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"Shadow of the Batgirl" author Sarah Kuhn wants young Asian American girls to see they can be the main character in superhero stories too. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-08 01:35:48 UTC ]
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From the fog of a so-far-extremely-cursed 2020, do you even remember 2019 anymore? The albino panda? 30 to 50 feral hogs? The US women’s national soccer team at the World Cup? What else even happened? Roxane Gay is here to remind us with this recap, which also lists her favorite books of the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-02-06 16:40:23 UTC ]
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Former US president Barack Obama has revealed Booker Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) and Normal People (Faber) were among his favourite books in 2019. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-30 06:49:34 UTC ]
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Can the iconic brand rediscover what made it a cultural phenomenon and financial success in the 1990s? In 1990, when I was in first grade, a children’s book author named Valerie Tripp visited my school. She was there to talk about a new series she had written for a four-year-old startup... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-12-17 07:00:46 UTC ]
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Following Bernardine Evaristo’s historic Booker Prize win, translation rights to her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton) have been snapped up in 21 territories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 06:13:51 UTC ]
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After Hearst Connecticut Media reported on a lawsuit alleging past sexual abuse at the Boys & Girls club in Greenwich, Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-15 08:00:25 UTC ]
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Members of several Canadian families who lost loved ones in the Ethiopian Airlines crash last March landed at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Tuesday morning along with seven caskets carrying the remains of their relatives. Continue reading at CBC
[ CBC | 2019-10-22 17:42:52 UTC ]
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Gabby Rivera’s YA novel follows Juliet Palante, a Puerto Rican teen from the Bronx, who is reckoning with her feminism and queerness. After coming out to her family, she goes to Portland to be a summer intern for her favorite feminist author, Harlowe Brisbane. Juliet believes this will be the... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2019-10-21 11:00:58 UTC ]
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Firefly Press has sold Catherine Fisher’s award-winning Middle Grade novel The Clockwork Crow, and sequel The Velvet Fox, to Walker Books US after a three-way auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-17 17:58:14 UTC ]
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Editor of The Bookseller Philip Jones will interview former indie publisher turned audiobook pioneer Mark Pearson at the Frankfurt Book Fair, ahead of the announcement of the shortlists for this year’s FutureBook Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 14:44:34 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has triumphed in a nine-way auction to publish Girl A by slushpile debut author Abigail Dean, with international rights sold in seven territories as well as an ongoing auction in Brazil and offers in Portugal and Israel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-15 18:13:43 UTC ]
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If you wanted to see a lot of photos of Rihanna, you could follow @badgalriri on Instagram OR you could buy this 504-page “visual autobiography.” (Think Kim Kardashian’s Selfish but probably way better.) Rihanna is a 15-pound doorstopper that features 1,050 photographs of the singer, following... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-07 19:36:56 UTC ]
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Rebel Girls has said they are "saddened" by the Turkish government’s decision to ban the sale of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls to under 18s. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-06 20:39:58 UTC ]
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Rebel Girls has joined forces with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and will donate $100,000 to the organisation over the next year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 15:28:50 UTC ]
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Enter to win a a digital audio download of THE FLIGHT GIRLS Audiobook by Noelle Salazar. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-08-31 10:33:52 UTC ]
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An urbane attempt to offer belated autonomy to a small band of well-born, well-connected young womenThe scene with which DJ Taylor begins his 26th book, Lost Girls, in which a girl enters, with some trepidation, a literary party in a house in Bloomsbury, is striking for many reasons. It is, as... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-08-31 07:58:41 UTC ]
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Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. Imagine Dragons The XFL this week took the wraps off the names... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-08-23 19:19:00 UTC ]
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Historical novelist Fiona Davis sets her books in famous New York buildings.This time: the Chelsea Hotel. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-08-12 17:25:32 UTC ]
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The US press has been assessing the likely impact of James Daunt as the Waterstones boss prepares to take over Barnes & Noble. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-08-08 12:59:50 UTC ]
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