The Southern California author's first story collection draws from his experiences in high school basketball, plumbing sales and more.There's a subtle arc to Jim Gavin's first book, "Middle Men" (Simon & Schuster: 224 pp., $23). Gathering seven stories largely set in Southern California, it opens with a high school basketball player and ends with Marty Costello, a plumbing supply salesman who "averages 50,000 miles per year, vast territories, circles of latitude, Inglewood to Barstow, sailing across SoCal, all day every day." Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Johnston Press is trying to dispose of its Irish newspapers. According to the Sunday Times in Ireland, the company "is in advanced talks" to sell its 12 Irish titles to the British advertising executive Malcolm Denmark.The indebted publisher paid about £115m in 2005 to acquire the stable of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2013-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Science fiction has a long tradition in North Korea and SF authors enjoy greater freedom to explore edgy subjects, such as crime and violence, than their counterparts. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The conference theme of the 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting, set for January 24–28 in Philadelphia, is “the conversation starts here.” It is a perfectly appropriate theme. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Collaboration between libraries and publishers in the only way forwards, panellists argued at The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Regnery Publishing has added to its list of books for children, forming Regnery Adventure. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Matt Cowdery, Hachette's representative in the GCC, reflects on several publishing issues impacting the region including importation certificates, the Arab Spring and more. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Lucy Hughes-Hallett has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction for The Pike, her biography of philandering Italian poet and politician Gabriele D'Annunzio. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In a series of September and October posts (the most recent one right here), Ad Age has been taking a broad view of the "social buzz" surrounding the fall TV season's new shows. We worked with the Keller Fay Group, a market-research firm that specializes in tracking "real world" conversations --... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Atlantic wants you to stop talking about the Scientology native ad imbroglio. Like, really, get over it. "It's been 10 months now and it's still being brought up," Scott Havens, president of the Atlantic, said at the Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami this week. The post The Atlantic: Can We... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2013-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jim Vandehei, co-founder of the D.C.-based online political reporting publication POLITICO, has been promoted to president and CEO. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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One of the big children’s projects that has bubbled up at Frankfurt is a series called Ferals that was acquired jointly by HarperCollins Children’s Books U.S. and U.K. last week, and has already been optioned for film. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The CEO of HarperCollins U.K. talked about taking his new job and how he plans on taking HC into the future. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Frankfurt Book Fair, VP of Kindle Content, Russ Grandinetti, shared some numbers about consumer usage of Kindle ebooks around the world. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You can't necessarily judge a book by its cover, but you can tell a lot about the content from it. For instance, when a certain font is paired with an illustrated character portrait featuring a dangling cigarette and/or a dangerous dame, clearly you are holding a pulpy detective novel from the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new study finds that reading literary fiction “leads people to perform better on tests that measure empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence." Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Depending on whom you talk to, the foreign rights markets are rebounding, or are still in decline. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It's a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by the National Book Foundation this week.So what about that National Book Awards fiction longlist? It’s a good one, and the last of the four longlists to be released by... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Orion has signed a trilogy of novels from historian Kate Williams. Jon Wood, deputy group... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Restaurateur Scott Conant, author of 'The Scarpetta Cookbook,' explains the Italian idea of sprezzatura, making hard work look easy. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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