Audible is launching a fiction podcast featuring original short stories from writers including Daisy Johnson, Eimear McBride and Liv Little. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 17:17:09 UTC ]
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Ebury is launching a new imprint called Ebury Edge, dedicated to business and performance publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-30 02:14:00 UTC ]
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Little, Brown's Sphere and Piatkus imprints are teaming up with digital marketing consultancy The Tandem Collective to launch a new writing prize that champions underrepresented voices in the romance genres. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 22:16:31 UTC ]
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A multi-format storytelling platform, featuring the work of authors including Colum McCann and Chigozie Obioma, and audio performers including Helena Bonham-Carter and David Tennant, has launched this week. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 20:07:03 UTC ]
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Emma Styles has won the Little, Brown UEA Crime Fiction Award 2020 for her novel, No Country for Girls. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:41:36 UTC ]
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Retail and publishing expert David Roche is launching a mentoring and coaching service through his company David Roche Enterprises. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 09:19:55 UTC ]
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Audible has announced changes to its returns policy, following an open letter signed by over 10,000 authors and industry representatives demanding that it do so. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 18:12:01 UTC ]
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THE SKELETONS IN Ray Bradbury’s closet are out in Killer, Come Back to Me, a career-spanning collection of the science fictioneer’s crime stories. These 300 pages present a new side to readers who only know Bradbury from such classics as The Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953).... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-11-24 13:30:59 UTC ]
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The Curtis Brown Creative Writing school is launching a Breakthrough Writers’ Programme, which features fully funded courses, mentoring and scholarships for underrepresented writers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 13:15:13 UTC ]
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US writers' body The Authors Guild has sent an open letter to Audible, demanding the company make changes to its policy on returns. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 08:16:59 UTC ]
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So-called "non-essential" retailers, which include bookshops, will be allowed to reopen when England's lockdown ends on 2nd December, Boris Johnson has announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 23:24:03 UTC ]
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Pearson has committed to tackling gender bias and stereotyping in education, unrolling "first of its kind" gender equality guidelines for the resources it produces. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-23 00:36:36 UTC ]
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Mostly Books has lined up a second series of its podcast, featuring a host of authors talking about their favourite books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 12:48:47 UTC ]
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Amazon is bringing over a popular feature from Kindle and Prime Video to its Music service. The company announced today the Music X-Ray experience is now available for tens of millions of songs in its catalog. According to the company, this will “off... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2020-11-20 16:45:39 UTC ]
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In this episode Clayton Copeland, a professor at the iSchool at the University of South Carolina and the director of the Laboratory for Leadership in Equity and Diversity, talks about how the very idea of disability is a social construct, and how the pandemic has shown in the most authentic way... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-11-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Dystopias, adventures and new worlds in books by Stephen Graham Jones, Zen Cho and more. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-19 13:30:00 UTC ]
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The novels that captivated us include James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” and Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-11-19 13:30:00 UTC ]
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The National Literacy Trust is to launch an initiative to address the attainment gap and support the wellbeing of children in 14 target areas across the UK, funded by Arts Council England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-19 08:00:06 UTC ]
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Dust off your formal wear and break out the bubbly because the National Book Awards (a.k.a. the Oscars of the book world) are nearly upon us. Yes, in just a few short hours, five dumbstruck authors will be fêted, garlanded, and welcomed into the American literary pantheon. For those of you... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 17:04:53 UTC ]
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Under-represented writers’ platform Untitled has launched the second full issue of its global online journal Untitled: Voices, featuring work from 53 emerging writers from around the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-11-18 16:23:12 UTC ]
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As many on this side of the pond may not know, Manchester United and England footballer Marcus Rashford is currently all that stands between the United Kingdom and compete moral ruination. In a year where a particularly grotesque grotesquerie of Brexiteer Tories consolidated power,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-17 19:04:34 UTC ]
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