With one-liners to rival Oscar Wilde or Mae West, she showed that satirical language can be soft and silly as well as wry and sharp. She will be missedVictoria Wood was an expert at encouraging us to lampoon language. Her forensically crafted writing was a warm, open invitation to point and laugh at the one thing above all else that makes us human: words.More specifically, the northern dialect of the English language. Lucy Mangan wrote about how her characters called their magazines “books” – idiosyncratically northern. Wood gave voice to something that characterises many of her delicious personas: a campness, in the Susan Sontag sense of the word. Her acute eye resulted in writing that was both well observed and ridiculous. Bringing out the camp in the northern housewife was oxymoronic: it added a linguistic layer of glamour to her downtrodden identity. This won her legions of devoted gay fans, including me. It blazed a trail for the comedy that could soften the Corrie matriarch. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2016-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In her latest book ‘Uninvited,’ TerKeurst explores why rejection hurts so badly and how to conquer insecurity and fear. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton and Hachette Children’s Group have both acquired books by the explorer Levison Wood. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reviews for the upcoming 'Potter' stage play are so far very positive. What about the show has so impressed reviewers? Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With analysis of a "slow erosion" of sales and much more, Nielsen's Romance Book Summit is a mix of research analysis and thematic exploration at the Romance Writers of America's gathering. The post For the Love of Industry Data: Nielsen’s Co-Location With Romance Writers of America appeared... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Car Throttle, the auto community, gets 80 percent of its revenue from branded content. In all of these programs, brands are asking for live video. The live videos often focus on car reviews and events. On Snapchat, the publisher has been posting daily stories for two years, which often get up to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers need to work harder at creating the need for books as a product, rather than focusing on their brands, delegates to The Bookseller’s Marketing and Publicity Conference have heard. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five artists illustrated the App Store review guidelines.One of the more unusual things to come out of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference this year is a lovely comic interpretation of Apple's app review guidelines.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2016-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC today relaunched Love to Read, a campaign that celebrates reading for pleasure, at Hay Festival. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'The Physics of Love,' about a woman who finds herself torn between her husband and another man has been a mainstay on the local bestseller list since its March release. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quercus has acquired a new historical novel and "epic love story" by Costa winner Stef Penney. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What would we do without our best friends? How did our first crushes make us feel, and did they meet our expectations? What role do “frenemies” play in our social life? These issues and more will be the focus of this afternoon’s #IReadYA panel “Book Besties." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling novelist Loren Estleman is well-known for two fictional characters: Los Angeles “film detective” Valentino, and Page Murdock, a U.S. deputy marshal featured in Estleman’s classic historical westerns. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The average person today thinks of John Wilkes Booth, the actor who shot President Lincoln in 1865, only as an assassin. But he was also a handsome actor with adoring fans, as well as a family man. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It’s the groundbreaking comic whose characters have aged along with its readers – and Neil Gaiman is a huge fanAt the turn of the 1980s, if you wanted to read comics, you were pretty much confined to Spider-Man, Superman and their Spandexed stablemates at Marvel and DC. The underground comic... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2016-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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According to Google, 20 percent of people in the USA will experience a disability at some point in their life. Let's think about this for a moment -- that is one in five people. In other words, people with disabilities are a significant part of the population. While there are many laws on the... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2016-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hodder & Stoughton has snapped up a "tender and moving" book of letters by writer Iain Maitland - bought within four hours of the manuscript's submission. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-04-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Though not the biggest AWP conference ever, AWP 2016 was full of controversies and surprises, including a couple getting engaged on stage during a poetry reading. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Genius is growing up. The Brooklyn-based startup also said its hired its first CRO in an attempt to make money through events, ads and publishing deals. The annotation service is also adding a 'report abuse' button to combat criticism that the annotation tool could be used nefariously to harass... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a 2012 episode of the popular TV show "Mad Men," Lionsgate paid an estimated $250,000 for the sound recording and publishing rights to use "Tomorrow Never Knows." Money may not buy love, but the steep price for a single Beatles song helps explain why Sony Corp. would be willing to make a... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2016-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers that are scouring for more readers are digging into the audiences of rival sites. Through what some people call "social syndication," The Daily Dot, Bustle, Mental Floss and others are partnering up to cross-post articles in each other's Facebook pages. Often, this means teaming up... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2016-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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