Comedy, and sex, in the cancer ward? 'A Funny Thing Happened' goes there with glee

Karla, a struggling stand-up comic, is furiously jotting in her notebook while trying out different versions of a new routine. “I’ve been single for so long, I’ve started having sex dreams about my vibrator.” Would wet dreams, she wonders, be funnier? Wait, women don’t even have wet dreams. If... Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'

[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperFiction joins up with Comedy Women in Print Prize to offer winner a contract

HarperFiction is joining forces with the Comedy Women in Print Prize, with the publisher offering the winner a publishing contract and £5,000 advance.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What Happens If Ingram and B&T Tie the Knot?

A rumored Ingram bid for B&T’s trade wholesaling business has the industry concerned about more consolidation. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sex scenes in movies can be vital to telling the full story

When Philip Roth died in May, a publisher friend of mine admitted, a little sheepishly, that she was sad because from now on it would be impossible to publish books like his again. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2018-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S UK's Books and the City sponsors RNA Comedy Award

One of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Awards will next year be sponsored by Simon & Schuster UK's women’s fiction community, Books and the City. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Keyes commissioned for Radio 4 comedy series

Marian Keyes is joining a host of names including Bridget Christie and Joanna Lumley in a new series of comedy commissions for BBC Radio 4. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate promotes Frame and takes on Ward-Best

Canongate has promoted Anna Frame to publicity director and appointed Cornerstone’s Celeste Ward-Best to cover marketing director Vicki Watson’s maternity leave. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From Madonna's Sex to Lady Chatterley: inside the Bodleian's explicit book club

Created at the height of Victorian prudishness, the Bodleian Library’s Phi collection was designed to protect young minds from ‘immoral’ books. More than a century later, they’re going on display for the first timeLibraries today take a dim view of censorship. They are places where knowledge is... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Piatkus to publish book on sex and consent for teen boys

Piatkus has acquired a "trailblazing" book about sex and consent for teenage boys in wake of the #MeToo movement. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sex appeal sweeps FBF as Oxford don goes in 10 countries

Bloomsbury has pre-empted The Right to Sex, a book about male sexual entitlement and #MeToo by Oxford professor Amia Srinivasan. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nadia Bolz-Weber is Shameless about God, Grace, and Sex

The unconventional Lutheran pastor says God's grace is universal in her new book, 'Shameless,' which calls for a new Christian ethic about sex. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Let’s Talk About Sex (and Religion)

They might seem like strange bedfellows, but sex is at the core of religious teachings—and as the culture shifts, so do church teachings and the books about them. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Trapeze bags School Run comedy

Trapeze is publishing a comedy called The School Run about how far two friends will go to get their child into the perfect school. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stop trying to sex up the Man Booker judges’ meetings. We are geeky nerds | Alex Clark

The image of furious rows and storming-outs is not one that I recognise but an industry concoction to glamorise publishingThe Man Booker prize is airing its dirty linen, celebrating its 50th birthday by drip-feeding bits of gossip and scandal from judging meetings, ceremonies and parties through... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2018-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Michael Cohen book that didn't happen

If things had gone differently for Michael Cohen, President Trump's former attorney who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to several federal felonies, he'd be headed on a book tour instead of facing sentencing. Cohen, who for years worked as Trump's "fixer," shopped a book called "Trump Revolution: From... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Crowdfunding target reached for cancer patient’s picture book

The team behind a picture book created by Lisa Wells, who has terminal cancer, has surpassed its initial crowdfunding target of £5,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stand-up star Helen Lederer launches prize for funny female authors

"Absolutely Fabulous" actress and stand-up comedian Helen Lederer is launching a new literary award in a bid to give female comic writing "the exposure and praise it deserves". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What the Hell Has Happened to Vanity Fair?

As dramas go, it is minor stuff. But in the itsy-bitsy, hothouse world of magazine glossies, the question everyone seems to be asking this summer is, “What the hell has happened to Vanity Fair?” You remember Vanity Fair, no doubt. It was big not so long ago. The chatterati obsessed over it—its... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Budgen and Eccheveri picked to illustrate cancer sufferer’s picture book

Cancer sufferer Lisa Wells has chosen illustrators Tim Budgen and Catalina Eccheveri to work on There’s Only One of Me, her picture book about the death of a parent. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This Jimmy Kimmel Video is Entitled “Woman Crushes Watermelons With Her Thighs,” and, Well, That’s What Happens

In his unfortunately-titled 1895 self-help book Successward: A Young Man’s Book for Young Men, Edward Bok had the following to say about the importance of honesty in business: Continue reading at Slate

[ Slate | 2018-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing rallies behind cancer sufferer’s picture book

A woman with terminal cancer is working on publishing a picture book about the death of a parent with the help of authors, publishers and agents. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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