'Conversations With Friends' author Dubliner Sally Rooney at 26 wins the Sunday Times/PFD prize for emerging authors from the UK and Ireland. The post Irish Author Sally Rooney Wins the UK’s Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'
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The National Book Foundation has announced the 2014 National Book Award longlist for Young People’s Literature. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In Moranthology, Caitlin Moran’s 2012 compendium of her decades of brash, personal columns for the British press, Moran jokes that as a teenage girl living in public housing in Wolverhampton, England, her career options were limited to “prostitution,” “working the checkout at the Gateway... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For lovers of literature, Paris is the place to be for the next two weeks, as Festival America and Festival des Ecrivains du Monde highlight Francophone writers from Quebec and Indian authors. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Beginning this year, the five winners of the National Poetry Series' Open Competition will receive a $10,000 prize, up from $1,000. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has acquired the world rights for two picture books from debut author Lou Carter.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More than 700 authors and 75 agencies have registered for Random House’s Author Portal... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair's International Rights Directors Meeting for the first time to showcase regional talent. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Young people in the US are just as likely to use libraries as older adults, and are more... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new report from the Pew Research Center Internet Project offers mixed news for public libraries. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Wiley & Sons has reported a 4% year-on-year revenue rise at constant currency for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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UK literary agency Andrew Lownie outlines the range of activities he is involved with in a typical agency week, from the mundane and routine, to the offbeat and extraordinary. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Established in memory of Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow, the $25,000 award is presented biannually to a living American author whose "scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in the highest rank of American literature." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Aleya Kassam explains how Kenyan writers are embracing the idea of branding and taking control of their careers. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon will launch its Fire Phone through the O2 network provider in the UK at the end of this... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pastors and their wives, and a former baseball star and his spouse, take a swing at marriage advice in several new books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc. will borrow a page from the National Geographic playbook to revive its declining print empire. Joe Ripp, the chief executive of Time Inc., who has unnerved old timers at America’s largest magazine publisher with ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Madeleine Millburn, a literary agent from London, offers her view on which international markets offer the most opportunities and how digital publishing has impacted the rights business. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An updated version of our Authors Guide to the Frankfurt Book Fair is available in Spanish, thanks to Dosdoce, The Spanish Digital Link, and Actualidad Editorial. Download it here. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new coalition is being formed to tackle what it calls a "reading crisis" among... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A documentary based on '13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi' (Twelve, 9781455582273), by Mitchell Zuckoff with the Annex Security Team, will premiere on Friday, September 5 on the Fox News Channel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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