The Society of Authors chief executive officer talks about campaigning to get the best deals for her members—and why she favours the direct approach. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2016-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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China is investing £5.7 million in preserving brick and mortar bookshops in Beijing as the country increasingly adopts digital. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tash Aw, Jesse Greengrass and Fiona Mozley are among the 31 winners of the Society of Authors 2018 Authors' Awards. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ethnic minority characters should feature in more books and not be defined by their "otherness". Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2018-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children’s Group and New Writing North are creating a new award for debut children’s writers from the North of England. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On the eve of US President Donald Trump’s official visit to the UK, Serpent’s Tail has acquired a new novel by "America’s last remaining dissident writer", Jarett Kobek, author of I Hate the Internet. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A German author is taking Random House to court for declining to release his book Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hampers Progress and Threatens Society which it originally signed on the basis of a 10-page proposal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Naming issues on which 'we are in almost complete alignment,' the UK's author-advocacy organization and revenue collection agency lay out talking points to the Publishers Association in an open letter. It's a new call 'to give everyone a bigger share of the pie." The post How Much Do Writers... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika has won the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story “Fanta Blackcurrant”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors (SoA) and the Authors Licensing and Collection Society (ALCS) have written an open letter taking issue with the Publishers Association’s questioning of figures unveiled in a recent survey showing writers’ earnings have fallen by 15% in four years, calling them... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Responding to a survey that found the median author income had dropped to £10,500, Publishers Association said the figures were ‘unrecognisable’The Society of Authors has issued a sharply worded challenge to the UK’s biggest publishers after the chief executive of the Publishers Association... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 26 winners of the Northern Writers’ Awards have been revealed, sharing a prize pot of £40,000, following the “most competitive” ever selection process. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Philip Pullman, Antony Beevor and Sally Gardner call for fairer share of profits, as survey shows full-time writers earn below minimum wagePhilip Pullman, Antony Beevor and Sally Gardner are calling on publishers to increase payments to authors, after a survey of more than 5,500 professional... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vice President Mike Pence and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will meet with the presidents of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras on Thursday to discuss the immigration crisis at the southern border of the U.S., the White House announced Tuesday. The meeting is set to take place in... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fresh from her win of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction, Kamila Shamsie is joining Susan Hill and Andrew Holgate in judging the Young Writer of the Year prize. The post Kamila Shamsie Joins Susan Hill in Judging the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award appeared first on Publishing... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Little Tiger imprint Stripes has chosen stories by four unpublished writers to feature in its upcoming Proud anthology by LGBTQ+ authors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Offensive opinions. Bullying. Sexual misconduct. As the literary world is rocked by scandal US publishers are asking authors to sign contracts with ‘morality clauses’. Are they really the answer?When the American Libraries Association awards its Andrew Carnegie medals in New Orleans later this... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the nearly half-century that the Boston-based David R. Godine has been publishing books, no book has ever been relaunched—until now. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Self-published author Faleena Hopkins asserted her right to the word, but judge calls attempt to stop other authors using it ‘weak’ Romance writers around the world can breathe a sigh of relief after a US court ruled that they can continue to use the adjective “cocky” in their book titles, after... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 1968 Peter Workman founded the company that bears his name with a single book, 'The Yoga 28-Day Exercise Program,' which is still in print. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Show Daily at BookExpo' asked all six of the Adult Buzz authors what inspired their books. Here are their answers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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