Atwood and Taddeo campaigns win BMS awards

Campaigns for Margaret Atwood's The Testaments (Vintage) and Lisa Taddeo's Three Women (Bloomsbury) were among the winners at the Book Marketing Society Awards last night.  Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 01:07:50 UTC ]
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Russia’s Eksmo-AST Plans Major Foreign Rights Campaign at Frankfurter Buchmesse

Unsatisfied with the company's limited efforts in foreign rights sales in the past, Eksmo-AST's incoming general director says the company will go to Frankfurter Buchmesse this year with a big list of children's and literary titles.  The post Russia’s Eksmo-AST Plans Major Foreign Rights... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alexie Declines Literary Award; Paperback Release Postponed

Amid a growing number of allegations of sexual misconduct, Sherman Alexie has declined the 2018 ALA’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and asked Hachette Book Group to postpone release of the paperback edition of the book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘Radical’ Verso Wins IPG’s Frankfurter Buchmesse Trade Publisher of the Year

Verso Books was named the Frankfurter Buchmesse Trade Publisher of the Year at the 2018 IPG Independent Publishing Awards for its marketing and audience engagement. The post ‘Radical’ Verso Wins IPG’s Frankfurter Buchmesse Trade Publisher of the Year appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Single parent Jemma Wallace wins £10k 'one in four' competition

Single parent Jemma Wallace has secured a £10,000 publishing contract after winning Trapeze Books, Gingerbread and The Pool's "One in Four" competition.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Atkins wins Romantic Novel of the Year accolade

Dani Atkins has won the Romantic Novelists' Association's highest accolade, The Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year, for her novel This Love (Simon & Schuster). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canadian Honeybee Campaign Will Distribute 100,000 Free Copies of Kids Can Press Book

Kids Can Press author Paulette Bourgeois and illustrator Josée Bisaillon have created a book for General Mills Canada's third annual educational campaign for ecological support. And bees may be among the beneficiaries. The post Canadian Honeybee Campaign Will Distribute 100,000 Free Copies of... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2018 New Zealand Book Awards finalists announced

Four novels that "directly confront and ask questions of both the world and the reader" have been selected as the fiction finalists at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Westchester downs Fairfax, wins 14th City Section title

The best way to attack a sagging zone defense is make some outside shots. Westchester’s Jeremiah Turley, Kevin Bethel and Zellie Hudson took care of that. The guards opened the way for 6-foot-6, 260-pound Kaelen Allen to bully Fairfax defenders inside on Saturday night. It translated into a 14th... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Anything Is Possible’ Wins The Story Prize

Strout was awarded The Story Prize and a $20,000 cash prize for her acclaimed short story collection 'Anything Is Possible,' at a ceremony at New York's New School. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Picador wins 14-way auction for 'heart-stopping' debut

Picador has triumphed in a 14-way auction for a "heart-stopping and gripping" debut novel set in the Pre-Raphaelite circle of Victorian London. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Irish author with terminal cancer reaches No 1 after campaign

Support from authors including Marian Keyes sees Emma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters become a bestseller, after she announces ‘all avenues have been exhausted’ in her treatmentEmma Hannigan’s Letters to My Daughters has shot to the top of book charts in Ireland, after the author announced... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Folio: To Honor Martha Stewart with Lifetime Empowerment and Achievement Award

Folio: is pleased to honor Martha Stewart with the Lifetime Empowerment and Achievement Award on Thursday, June 7, 2018 to celebrate her tremendous impact on magazine media. The post Folio: To Honor Martha Stewart with Lifetime Empowerment and Achievement Award appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent Bookstores Vie for British Book Award Honors in Eight Regions

With one bookstore reporting a 36-percent increase in business in 2017, almost 40 retailers are put into contention for the Independent Bookstore of the Year prize at the British Book Awards, the Nibbies. The post Independent Bookstores Vie for British Book Award Honors in Eight Regions appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie bookshops vie for The British Book Awards title

A bumper crop of Britain and Ireland’s best independent bookshops are bucking the market trend, achieving double-digit sales rises in 2017. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder wins auction for Zoella's first non-fiction

Zoe Sugg, known as YouTube personality Zoella, has moved to Hodder & Stoughton for her first non-fiction book after the publisher won rights at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pulitzer-winning photographer who captured the despair of war dies at 104

Former Associated Press photographer Max Desfor, whose photo of hundreds of Korean War refugees crawling across a damaged bridge in 1950 captured the desperation of wartime and helped win him a Pulitzer Prize, has died at the age of 104. Desfor, who died Monday in Silver Spring, Md., volunteered... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Awards for women, writers of colour, small presses – why are there so many books prizes?

There are so many literary prizes these days that they could be regarded as an industry in their own right – but they’re needed to change the status quoHow many literary prizes are there in the UK today? To Wikipedia’s tally of around 70, I can immediately add half a dozen more – and still they... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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L.A. Times Book Prize finalists include Joyce Carol Oates and Ta-Nehisi Coates; John Rechy receives lifetime achievement award

Finalists for the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes include Joyce Carol Oates, Ron Chernow, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jesmyn Ward. The awards will be presented on the campus of USC on April 20, the eve of the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Finalists for the book prizes, which are awarded in 10... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury and Mitchell Beazley vie for Jane Grigson award

Two Bloomsbury titles are to battle it out for the Jane Grigson Trust Award alongside a title from Mitchell Beazley. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No. 2 Fairfax, No. 3 Taft rally in second half to win City Section playoff openers

There was plenty of drama on the opening night of the City Section Open Division basketball playoffs. At one point Saturday night, the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 seeds all trailed in the second half. At halftime in Woodland Hills, with No. 3 Taft down by eight points to No. 6 Crenshaw, standout guard Kihei... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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