At the Saturday night event in New York City, Noah Hawley became the first author to win an ITW Best Novel Award and an Edgar for the same book, 'Before the Fall.' Nick Petrie took home the Best First Novel award for his book, 'The Drifter.' Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books has crowned its first ever female solo winner in Gaia Vince for her close-up look at pressing ecological issues facing the planet. Vince’s Adventures in the Anthropocene (Chatto & Windus) was given the £25,000 science prize at a ceremony... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bestselling author Francine Rivers was among those honored during the 2015 American Christian Fiction Writers Awards, taking home the top Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When HarperCollins Canada announced last November that it would be getting out of the Canadian distribution business, it set off a succession of changes in the publishing landscape. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The first book from the winner of the Bracken Bower Prize, Saadia Zahidi, has been acquired by Nation Books. The book’s North American rights were sold to Katy O’Donnell, editor at Nation Books, by literary agent Eric Lupfer at William Morris Endeavor. Zahidi’s outline for the book was the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andersen Press is set to publish the winners of this year’s US Caldecott and Newbery medals, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend by Dan Santat and The Crossover by Kwame Alexander The Crossover, which won the Newbery Medal for fiction, tells the story of brothers who are rivals on... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Get to know the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair and find out about translation funding for these books. The post EU Prize for Literature Winners on Display in Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers trying to make heads or tails of Facebook video can learn a thing or two from food sites. Two of the most popular Facebook video publishers cover food: BuzzFeed food got 390 million Facebook video views in June, while video network Tastemade's output was watched 165 million views... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Josh McDowell on childhood molestation, what he's learned in 55 years of writing, and winning the Christian Bookseller Association's Lifetime Achievement Award. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books by David Levithan, Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre, Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers were the winners of this year’s United Kingdom Literary Association (UKLA) Book Awards, announced today (10th July) at a ceremony in Nottingham. The awards are divided into three categories – 12-16+, 7-11 and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zambia's Namwali Serpell has won the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and is to share her £10,000 prize money with her fellow shortlistees. Serpell won the award with short story "The Sack" from Africa39 (Bloomsbury). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors last night (25th June) distributed £85,000 to writers at its annual authors’ awards, giving out prizes to writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and material for teaching English. Author Ben Fergusson won the biggest prize of the night, receiving the £10,000 Betty Trask... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The trade has praised CILIP’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway award winners, claiming the choice will bring a welcome focus to historical and non-fiction children’s stories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Shin Kyung-sook had earlier denied using material by Yukio Mishima, but has now apologised, saying ‘I can’t believe my own memory’Shin Kyung-sook, an internationally renowned South Korean novelist who won the $30,000 (£19,000) Man Asian literary prize four years ago, has apologised to her... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tanya Landman, who this morning picked up the CILIP Carnegie medal for Buffalo Soldier (Walker Books), used her acceptance speech to speak out against the closure of libraries, as well as how schools are killing the creative process. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two independent presses are among those celebrating after eight authors were chosen as winners of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Jo Mazelis, published by Seren, and Carys Davies, published by Salt, were two of the eight authors who will each receive £5,000. The prize, set up to celebrate... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A novel set in imperial China wins the £25,000 Water Scott Prize for Historical Fiction at the Borders Book Festival. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 2015 American Library Association Annual Conference kicks off today in San Francisco with more than 25,000 librarians, publishers and vendors expected to descend on the Bay Area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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No examination of the Bay Area publishing scene would be complete without highlighting the many digital publishing and distribution startups in the area. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Beazley author Diana Henry was a major winner at last night's Guild of Food Writer Awards 2015 (Tuesday 9th June). Henry received the Cookery Book of the Year Award for A Change of Appetite (Mitchell Beazley) as well as the Evelyn Rose Award for Cookery Journalist of the Year for work... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House is printing 40,000 paperbacks of Ali Smith’s How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton) following its triumph at the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Smith was named the 20th winner of the prize last night at a ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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