As I prepare for the paperback launch of my debut novel The Girls in Queens, I share with a group of writers and artists that I’m putting together a Book Club Kit. This has become a fairly common digital offering; a colorful PDF of brief insights from the author, a recipe or two related to […] The post I Can’t Offer Up My Culture for Consumption appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'
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The author of “Mexican Gothic” offers a downloadable book club kit including a paper doll inspired by her main character. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a debut novel from Gleam Titles agent Abigail Bergstrom, an upmarket commercial fiction book she originally submitted under a pseudonym. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Missing your book club friends? We've rounded up some great personalized book club gifts to give to your reading pals to show how much you care! Continue reading at Book Riot
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And Other Stories is set to publish the debut novel of British poet and former human rights lawyer Mona Arshi. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Novels by Dawn O'Porter, Robert Harris and Jane Fallon are among the six-strong line up for Richard and Judy's Book Club this summer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-08 22:08:41 UTC ]
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Marketers and publicists have been encouraged to know their audience and be "direct" and "transparent" in their approach, in a keynote at The Bookseller's marketing and publicity virtual conference. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, Rachel Beanland’s debut novel wades through heartbreak. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-07-07 09:00:11 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Paul Baggaley has acquired an "extraordinarily prescient" debut novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 10:17:28 UTC ]
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Journalist Bonnie Tsui, author of "Why We Swim," joins the L.A. Times Book Club for a July 28 virtual meetup. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-07-01 14:00:34 UTC ]
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There’s no doubt COVID-19 has forever changed the world as we know it. A small slice of life that had to shift trajectory is the publishing industry. Debut authors are especially struggling as the books they have worked on for countless years are released into a world without in-person book... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-06-30 11:00:00 UTC ]
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The author’s debut novel presciently captures the girlboss era right as it seems to be coming to an end. Whether you loved them or hated them, few entrepreneurs generated more buzz in the 2010s than so-called “girlbosses”—young, mostly white, female founders who disrupted industries including... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-06-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authorsCandice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo have become the first black authors to win the top prizes at the British Book awards,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-06-29 17:45:42 UTC ]
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“Fleabag” star Sian Clifford is narrating the audiobook of Olive, the debut novel by author and broadcaster Emma Gannon. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 08:42:04 UTC ]
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James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong,’ the latest Oprah’s Book Club pick, climbs back onto our hardcover fiction list. Plus children’s books new and old introduce concepts of race, and for ‘28 Summers,’ Elin Hilderbrand meets fans where they are. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has triumphed in a heated six-publisher auction for the debut novel by Nita Prose, the pen name for vice president and editorial director at Simon & Schuster in Canada, Nita Pronovost. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The best-selling author and former minority leader for the Georgia House of Representatives has a lot going on, but she still makes time for fiction. Continue reading at The New York Times
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Emily Temple's "The Lightness," about a seeker who loses more than she finds, is a beguiling novel after Donna Tartt's heart, if not her plotting. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-06-24 13:45:57 UTC ]
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“What’s Left of Me Is Yours,” a debut novel by Stephanie Scott, is inspired by the events surrounding an unlikely murder that occurred in Japan. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-06-23 09:00:07 UTC ]
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Not to sound like an assistant district attorney from SVU, but it is beyond a shadow of a doubt that acclaimed essayist and book critic Ilana Masad has carved a prominent space for herself in the realm of mother-daughter literature with her debut novel, All My Mother’s Lovers. It sits upon a... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2020-06-22 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Oprah Winfrey announced today that her next book club selection would be Deacon King Kong by James McBride, a novel that she says resonates at a time when America is facing a reckoning over race and violence against black people. “In a moment when our country roils with righteous anger and grief... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-06-16 20:04:23 UTC ]
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