Damp, wrinkly, virile: Here are this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction Award nominees.

Now that High Book Award Season is coming to a close (right??), we can focus on the prize that really matters: Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Since 1993, the UK-based magazine has “honored the year’s most outstandingly awful scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.” Previous winners include Morrissey, James Frey, […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

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Stevens and Mason win inaugural kids awards at CrimeFest

Robin Stevens and Simon Mason have won the inaugural awards for Best Crime Novel for Children and Young Adults respectively at the annual CrimeFest Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McDermid, Herron and Durrant compete for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year

The shortlist for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year pits "Queen of Crime" Val McDermid's 30th novel against an espionage thriller by Mick Herron, as well as Chris Brookmyre's "celtic Gone Girl".  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Big Week for Adult Fiction

At outlets that report to NPD BookScan, total unit sales were 8% higher in the week ended May 14, 2017, than in the comparable week last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fairfax Media bidder TPG says it would resell media company within five years

TPG Capital tells Senate inquiry it would expand the business but concedes it has no experience running newspapersOne of the bidders for Fairfax Media, TPG Capital, has told a Senate inquiry that if the $2.7bn bid were successful the consortium would grow the media business and sell it off again... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Accent's Kate Field wins Joan Hessayon Award

Kate Field has won the Romantic Novelists Association's Joan Hessayon Award for new writers with her debut novel The Magic of Ramblings (Accent Press). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OUP and Blackwell's win at Academic Trade Conference awards

Oxford University Press has been crowned Publisher of the Year once again at the Academic Book Trade Conference awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Oliver Jeffers turns to non-fiction

Award-winning author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers is publishing a new book with HarperCollins at the end of this year and has signed a new two-book deal with the publisher for future publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Christian Fiction Keeps Its Allure

Despite recent challenges, the category keeps drawing in publishers—and readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PRH Children's Ronnie Fairweather to retire after 30 years

Ronnie Fairweather, creative director at Penguin Random House Children’s, is retiring after nearly 30 years with the publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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2017 Christopher Awards Celebrate Books on Family

Books about the bonds of friendship, raising a child with special needs, and the power of teamwork received recognition for “affirming the highest values of the human spirit” during the 2017 Christopher Awards ceremony in New York City on Tuesday, May 16. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Free Speech Attorney to Receive First ABA Meskis Award

Attorney Michael A. Bamberger has been named the inaugural honoree of the American Booksellers Association's Joyce Meskis Free Speech Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indigo Dreams wins Most Innovative Publisher at Saboteur Awards

Dead Ink’s email-based novella The Night Visitors and poet Hollie McNish have both been honoured at the Saboteur Awards this year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ockham NZ Book Awards: Catherine Chidgey, Victoria University Press the big winners

Waikato author Catherine Chidgey was the big winner at this year's Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2017-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Competition Notes: Sunday Times Prize Judges, Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize Finalists

Elif Shafak and Lucy Hughes-Hallett are named judges in London; the public is one of five judges in the Alabama-based Harper Lee Prize. The post Competition Notes: Sunday Times Prize Judges, Harper Lee Legal Fiction Prize Finalists appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2017-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This 11-Year-Old Reporter Would Love to Interview Elon Musk

For the latest episode of the podcast Scholastic Reads, the children's book publisher did something a little different. It shifted the focus onto some of the young folks who make up its dynamic News Kids reporting endeavor. Dialing in from various cities around the country to chat with the... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2017-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo 2017: Anne DeCourcey is PW’s Rep of the Year

A longtime book veteran who says that she’ll die in this industry, DeCourcey was named the 2016 New England rep of the year and the 2015 and 2010 HarperCollins rep of the year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New £10,000 award for indie publishers launches

The Clarissa Luard Award, a new £10,000 award for independent publishing, has been set up by Arts Council England to recognise the contribution that small publishers make to literature and to celebrate the "adventurousness, innovative spirit and creativity" of independent literary publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Emma Kavanagh moves to Orion Fiction

Crime writer and police psychologist Emma Kavanagh has signed a three book deal with Orion Fiction.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Cornerstone wins 'Book of the Year' in hotly-contested auction

In a "hotly contested" auction, Cornerstone has acquired a book of strange-but-true trivia authored by the "QI elves" behind weekly podcast "No Such Thing As A Fish". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Juvenile Fiction Is a Bright Spot in a Down Week

Unit sales of print books fell 3% in the week ended May 7, 2017, compared to the similar week in 2016, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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