Ebury to sharpen non-fiction focus as Gillian Green departs

Ebury fiction publishing director Gillian Green is departing after 12 years, as the dedicated fiction list on Ebury Press is wound down. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 00:12:10 UTC ]
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IPA Congress Focuses on the Publisher’s Role in a Digital Economy

In his opening speech, Elsevier chairman Y. S. Chi emphasized the need to regard industry changes as opportunities instead of threats or diversions. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Blink to publish Professor Green

Blink Publishing has acquired the autobiography of musician Professor Green. The book, Lucky, will be accompanied by “a ground-breaking app full of additional content and exclusive videos”, said the publisher. Acquisitions director Clare Tillyer bought world rights, excluding America, to Lucky... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Magazine Publisher Meredith Finds Success Focusing on Women

Magazine publisher Meredith succeeds focusing on family, home, health information for women Continue reading at ABC News

[ ABC News | 2015-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Patreon Acquires Subbable, John and Hank Green’s Crowdfunding Venture

Longterm subscription funding platform Patreon adds creators after acquiring Subbable, a similiar platform founded by the Green brothers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Canongate acquires non-fiction from Grenville

Canongate has signed a new work of non-fiction from Man Booker Prize-shortlisted and Orange Prize-winning author Kate Grenville. Editorial director of fiction Louisa Joyner signed UK rights in One Life from Michael Heyward at Text Publishing. The book tells the story of Grenville's mother... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marilynne Robinson wins fiction prize

Novelist Marilynne Robinson and cartoonist Roz Chast were among the winners at the National Book Critics Circle. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Knausgaard and Murakami on Foreign Fiction longlist

Karl Ove Knausgaard and Haruki Murakami are among the authors whose work features on the longlist for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. Meanwhile books originally written in German take five of the 15 spots, and Quercus has three titles on the selection. The Independent Foreign... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Totally Entwined signs fiction from Jess Wright

The Totally Entwined Group has signed a three-book fiction deal with “The Only Way is Essex” star Jess Wright for its Celebritease imprint. Claire Siemaszkiewicz, founder and c.e.o. of Totally Entwined Group, said: “We are delighted to be working with the gorgeous Jess Wright on her first... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fiction Teaches Truths: PW Talks with Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra's 10th novel continues his quest to explore spiritual mysteries through stories. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook Focus for IPG Day One

Facebook was a focus of the first day of the IPG spring conference in Chipping Norton yesterday (4th March), which saw Perseus reveal the inside story on having a book selected for the Facebook Book Club, while publishers told they are "too nice" and need to develop more attitude if they are to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Networking Paradigm Shift: Focus On Giving, Not Taking

Networking often feels like using people as a means to an end. A better strategy is to lead with giving rather than taking.Networking can, at times, feel downright slimy. How many times have you dragged yourself to a conference or a business mixer only to be confronted by a guy with slick hair... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press to publish Hynde memoir

Ebury Press is to publish the memoir of Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of The Pretenders, acquired in a “major deal”. Publisher and deputy m.d. Jake Lingwood bought world English and translation rights, excluding North America, while Gerry Howard, v.p., executive editor at Doubleday, Penguin Random... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'War and Peace' BBC adaptation will star Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson

The adaptation will also star actors Paul Dano and Lily James. It's being directed by Tom Harper of 'Peaky Blinders.' Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones and HarperCollins in Crime fiction festival

Waterstones and HarperCollins will host a joint literary festival celebrating crime fiction, with a combination of virtual and literary events. The Killer Crime Festival will be held over the 13th and 14th March, with live events taking place at Waterstones stores alongside an online festival... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LBF's Mexico Focus authors unveiled

Elena Poniatowska, winner of the Cervantes Prize 2014, and critic and essayist Enrique Krauze will be headlining Mexico’s Market Focus Cultural Programme for this year’s London Book Fair. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charing Cross Road events for Big Green Bookshop

The Big Green Bookshop is set to hold events at The Old Café – in the former Foyles Charing Cross Road – in an “exciting new partnership.” The Old Café in Foyles’ former home was always a popular venue with literary folk and is still operating after the bookseller moved its flagship store down... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Six-strong shortlist for International Prize for Arabic Fiction

Atef Abu Saif, Jana Elhassan, Lina Huyan Elhassan, Shukri al-Mabkhout, Ahmed al-Madeeni and Hammour Ziada are the six authors shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The shortlisted was revealed by a judging panel chaired by Palestinian poet and writer, Mourid... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Does fan fiction spell the end of the professional novelist?

In popular genres such as sci-fi and fantasy, fan fiction based on the Wattpad model could easily disrupt the publishing industryFor a few years in the mid 2000s, I was the young librarian who got sent to schools to convince kids they really did want to read books. The truth of my experience was... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Martin Green obituary

Writer, poet and publisher who was part of Soho’s bohemian world in the 1960sMartin Green, who has died aged 82, was a writer, poet and publisher. Among the many books he encouraged as an editor at MacGibbon and Kee in the 1960s was Nell Dunn’s Up the Junction (1963). Bringing Patrick Kavanagh’s... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No Panic Over 15 Percent Drop in Christian Fiction Sales

Christian publishers are not in panic mode despite recent Nielsen BookScan numbers indicating Christian fiction sales dropped 15 percent from 2013 to 2014. Houses with major fiction programs remain optimistic about the category and are not pulling back. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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