Geena Davis memoir shows how she learned to stand up for herself

Actor Geena Davis’ memoir “Dying of Politeness” tells the story of how her movie roles gave her the confidence to move beyond extreme deference. Continue reading at 'The Christian Science Monitor'

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Redwood Media Group Acquires Two Art Shows

Publisher of Decor and Art Business News adds Red Dot Art Fair and Art Santa Fe to growing exhibitions division. The post Redwood Media Group Acquires Two Art Shows appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Boys' basketball: Narbonne shows it's going to be a team to reckon with

Hold off on making reservations for the City Section Division I championship basketball game between Fairfax and Westchester come March. Yes, those are the two favorites to reach the final, but Narbonne showed Saturday night in a 62-54 loss to Westchester that someone is going to have to play... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-12-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Netflix to show TV adaptation of Mortal Instruments

Fans of Cassandra Clare will be able to watch the TV adaptation of her bestselling series The Mortal Instruments (Walker Books) next month, as Netflix has announced a global release date, excluding the US, of 13th January. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury gets cycling champion Chris Boardman's memoir

Ebury Press has acquired the autobiography from "the father of modern British cycling" Chris Boardman, to be published on 2nd June in time for Father’s Day. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 Things We Learned in 2015 From the Year in Media Deals

The desire to scale up and reach millennial readers drove many high-profile publishing deals in 2015. Here are five takeaways from all the activity. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charlie Hebdo contributor's graphic memoir to Two Roads

Two Roads has acquired the international bestselling graphic memoir The Arab of the Future, by former Charlie Hebdo contributor and cartoonist Riad Sattouf. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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4 Big Developments That Show Why Snapchat Was 2015's Buzziest Platform

When Snapchat's CEO Evan Spiegel took the main stage at this year's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the crème de la crème of advertising conferences, his company's prominent place in the marketing world seemed solidified. But that was only one of the big moments in 2015 that... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pan Mac buys Oprah Winfrey memoir

Pan Macmillan has acquired Oprah Winfrey’s memoir The Life You Want, a book that uses her own story as the source of inspirational advice. Non-fiction publisher Robin Harvie bought UK and Commonwealth rights from Jennifer Rudolph Walsh at WME and will publish the memoir in January 2017,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Flatiron to Pub Oprah's Memoir, Host Her New Imprint

Macmillan's Flatiron Books has announced that it will be publishing a memoir by Oprah Winfrey, and that the book, called 'The Life You Want,' will be the lead title in a new nonfiction imprint dedicated to titles selected by the media magnate. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebook Market Share in Germany Shows Slow Growth

The ebook market share in Germany shows slow growth in 2015, according to the German Publishers Association and research company GfK. The post Ebook Market Share in Germany Shows Slow Growth appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Raw' Chris Packham memoir to Ebury Press

Ebury Press has acquired naturalist TV star Chris Packham’s “emotionally exposing” memoir. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Brickie-turned-astronomer memoir to Century

Century is publishing an astronomer Gary Fildes' memoir for readers “ready to escape the humdrum of office life”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Henning Mankell's 'memoir of sorts' due out next year

Quicksand, to be published in February 2016, comprises a series of autobiographical essays ‘about what it means to be human’A “memoir of sorts” by Henning Mankell, which the late author said was “not a book about death and destruction but about what it means to be human”, will be published next... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber to release Moby memoir next June

Faber & Faber is to publish Moby’s “piercingly tender” memoir, Porcelain, in June 2016. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Moby to follow ancestor Herman Melville into print with memoir

The bohemian turned pop star’s book has already won pre-publication praise from Salman Rushdie and Dave EggersThe musician Moby is following in the footsteps of his long-distant ancestor Herman Melville and turning to the literary arena, with a memoir due out next summer and already drawing... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Margo Jefferson memoir to Granta

Granta has acquired Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson's "astonishing" memoir, Negroland. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Indie icon Carrie Brownstein's new memoir is a mash note to her band Sleater-Kinney

There's a clichéd arc to rock memoirs: the ambitious young man (almost always a man), the climb up the charts, the blinding success, the sex and drugs, then the crash and burn. Thankfully, that's absent from the new book "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl" by Carrie Brownstein, guitarist and vocalist... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three months, standing start to high street

"The dispiriting feeling that...the entire industry is stacked against the author." Douglas Wight isn't the first to respond by creating an imprint of his own, of course. Indie bestseller Barbara Freethy self-publishes as Fog City Publishing, which has a trade imprint for bookstores, Hyde Street... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At SCIBA Show, Dip in Attendance Points to Positive Change

Attendees at this weekend's Southern California Independent Booksellers Association (SCIBA) show in Los Angeles celebrated an uptick in sales, as well as membership. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Graphic memoir 'Arab of the Future' takes a look back to the author's childhood in Libya and Syria

The French cartoonist Riad Sattouf spent the earliest years of his life in three dictatorships. One dictator was Col. Moammar Kadafi, the "supreme leader" of Libya, where Sattouf and his parents moved when he was 2. Another was President Hafez Assad of Syria, where they relocated when he was 4.... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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