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'

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Finch, Lewis and Betterton join Stanfords

Stanfords travel shop has appointed Brian Finch to its board as finance director, amid a series of new appointments at the historic travel bookshop. Other appointments include Waterstones blog editor Dan Lewis, who will join Stanfords as marketing, events and PR manager. Finch, who has been... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macdonald 'could be strongest selling Samuel Johnson winner'

Helen Macdonald has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape), making it the first time a memoir has won the award. Macdonald was announced as the winner of the £20,000 prize last night (4th November) at a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Falconry book wins £20,000 prize

Author Helen Macdonald wins the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is for Hawk, a memoir about how becoming a falconer helped her deal with grief. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steinberg, Kern Join Foundry

Foundry Literary + Media has hired Peter Steinberg as an agent, and Richie Kern as the agency's new director of filmed entertainment. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macdonald's 'Hawk' memoir wins Samuel Johnson Prize

Helen Macdonald has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for H is For Hawk (Jonathan Cape), making it the first time a memoir has won the award. Author and historian Claire Tomalin, chair of the judging panel, said Macdonald had written a “book unlike any other”. Macdonald was... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unbound seeks to draw in more women writers

Crowdfunding publisher Unbound has launched Women in Print, a campaign to encourage more female writers to submit their ideas for books. Unbound has published 43 books, two magazines and a box set of photos to date, of which 32 were by male authors, 12 by female authors, and two by male and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three from Nobel winner Modiano to MacLehose Press

MacLehose Press has acquired three novels by this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature winner Patrick Modiano, as well as three novels by two other writers. The publisher bought British and Commonwealth rights from Gallimard to three books by Modiano. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Book industry winners in Creative Scotland funding round

Glasgow Women’s Library and the Wigtown Book Festival are among the organisations receiving funding for the first time from Creative Scotland. The two groups join a number of other literature and publishing organisations awarded regular funding for the period covering April 2015 to March... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wiley offers free content from Nobel winning scientists

John Wiley is making a selection of content from the nine 2014 Nobel laureates they have published free to access until the end of the year. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Snaith wins Bristol Short Story Prize

Leicester-based writer Mahsuda Snaith has won the 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize for her work "The Art of Flood Survival". Snaith, announced as the winner of the £1,000 prize on Saturday (25th October), beat almost 2,500 other entrants from more than 60 countries to win the competition. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Poirot and Jeeves join in Waterstones sleepover

Detective Hercule Point and butler Jeeves joined guests at a sleepover event in Waterstones’ flagship store on Saturday (26th October). Altogether 19 guests spent 12 hours overnight in the bookshop at an event organised after the company hit the headlines when an American tourist got locked in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook offers publishers a Faustian bargain

Facebook's plan to help publishers monetize on mobile sends a shiver down publishers' spines. The post Facebook offers publishers a Faustian bargain appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2014-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mills & Boon signs women's fiction debut

Harlequin UK's Mills & Boon imprint has signed two novels by debut author Eva Woods. Commissioning editor Anna Baggaley signed UK and Commonwealth rights from Diana Beaumont at Rupert Heath Literary Agency. The first book in the deal, The Thirty List, follows a newly-divorced woman setting... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mason wins £10k Dundee International Book Prize

Amy Mason has won £10,000 and a publishing deal by winning the Dundee International Book Prize. Mason's debut novel, The Other Ida, beat off competition from 400 other entries, and will now be published by Cargo Press. The prize has been running since 2000, organised by the city of Dundee and... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer scoops £10,000 book prize

Debut novelist Amy Mason, who dropped out of school at 16 and took up writing at 25, wins the Dundee International Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Will 'King of Magazines' Spin Off Print Unit? Execs 'Not Opposed'

Media companies have been streamlining their businesses by cleaving off underperforming print units from more lucrative TV, film and digital businesses. Just this year, Time Warner spun off magazine division Time Inc., Tribune Company split apart its TV and newspaper businesses and Gannett... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zalaznick joins PRH board

Penguin Random House has appointed entertainment industry executive Lauren Zalaznick as the first independent board member of the company. Zalaznick spent 12 years at NBCUniversal in a series of positions and currently publishes the LZ Sunday Paper, a newsletter about women in business, media... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naidoo joins Bookouture

Keshini Naidoo, formerly commissioning editor at Avon, has joined digital publisher Bookouture as senior commissioning editor and has already acquired four books from debut novelist Angela Marsons.   Naidoo is taking on particular responsibility for the crime and thriller list. Her first... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hosseini, Lahiri and Shamsie on longlist for DSC South Asian literature Prize

Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri and Kamila Shamsie are among the 10 authors longlisted for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Italian Writing Festival Takes Women, Self-Publishing Seriously

The Women's Writing Festival in Matera, Italy was a showcase for the growing importance of women's fiction and self-publishing in Europe. The post Italian Writing Festival Takes Women, Self-Publishing Seriously appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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