Suzanne King will join Simon & Schuster UK in the newly created role of contracts manager... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#contracts manager
In the new graphic biography, 'Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics', comics artist and biographer Tom Scioli pays tribute to Kirby, arguably the greatest superhero comic book artist of all time. In this 11-page excerpt Scioli depicts Kirby’s life on the Lower East Side and the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-06-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#comics artist
#jack kirby
#epic life
#graphic biography
#comic book
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 ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#james mcbride
#black people
#book club
Midas PR founders Steven Williams and Tony Mulliken are retiring from their executive roles at the end of the year, 30 years after setting up the agency, with Jason Bartholomew becoming sole chief executive officer. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 23:04:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#executive roles
#jason bartholomew
Boldwood Books has launched an e-book collaboration with John Blake's Ad Lib, starting with a book that reveals all about the stars of hit Netflix series “Tiger King”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 19:13:40 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#boldwood books
#john blake
#ad lib
#e-book
HarperCollins has promoted Kimberley Young (pictured) to the role of executive publisher for HarperFiction, with responsibility also for digital-first division One More Chapter. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-10 12:12:17 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#executive publisher
#harpercollins
Laing champions the very attempt on the part of artists to make a dent in the collective consciousness. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-18 12:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#olivia laing
Bill Shannon, contracts director for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, died May 9 after an extended illness from complications of kidney cancer. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Laurence King Publishing (LKP) has launched a competition for children to nominate a keyworker they would like illustrator Jason Ford to draw as a superhero. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-29 05:43:41 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Yale University Press London has appointed Stuart Weir in the newly created role of production director, overseeing editorial, production and design for all London-originated titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-28 02:25:36 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#production director
A new collection contains stories that cover a surprising amount of emotional territory but can still be read in a sitting. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-20 07:41:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#short fiction
#surprising amount
Hodder Non-Fiction is making a series of changes to its editorial team: Anna Baty is joining from The Bodley Head as senior commissioning editor, while Zuleika’s Tom Perrin is taking on a consultant editor role and Huw Armstrong has been promoted. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 09:00:03 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#editorial team
#bodley head
#hodder
Like any serious entrepreneurial endeavor in the media business, Business of Home was born in 2009 out of the recognition of an underserved audience. Its founder and president, Julia Noran Johnston, who at the time had been working at Hearst Magazines, on the business side of Veranda, for five... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-03-19 18:28:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#future editions
#corporate sales
#hearst
A MAJOR FEATURE of the African-American writer James McBride’s books — beginning with the memoir The Color of Water (1995), a tribute to his white mother — is the large dose of humor injected into subjects that are, on the face of things, deadly serious if not sacred. Here in The Color of Water... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-03-18 19:00:39 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#james mcbride
#memoir
Using some or all of the clauses in the model contract, the Authors Guild said, will help ensure that writers receive the rights granted them under current U.S. copyright and contract law. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#authors guild
#trade book
Yellow Kite has acquired a book on "the art of healthy ageing", The Lazarus Strategy: How to Age Well and Wisely, by 84-year-old Dr Norman Lazarus. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-12 23:22:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#yellow kite
The National Book Award-winning author follows an aging deacon whose mysterious actions set a sprawling plot in motion. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-09 15:07:32 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#james mcbride
#award-winning author
Simon Savidge has left his role at Liverpool Libraries to take charge of logistics for the BBC’s Novels That Shaped Our World libraries events programme. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-09 06:33:08 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#bbc novels
#liverpool libraries
#libraries
Writer ‘uneasy’ over US publisher’s decision to drop director’s memoirAuthor Stephen King has hit out at publisher Hachette over its decision to drop publication of Woody Allen’s memoir after a protest from his son, the author Ronan Farrow, prompted a walkout of staff at the publishing group’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-03-08 08:10:29 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#woody allen
#york office
#horror writer
#hachette
#memoir
#publisher hachette
Can a young writer find creative fulfillment after all her friends have settled down, married up and sold out? Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-04 19:24:27 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#lily king
#young writer
At the Audio Publishers Association's annual Audie Awards, which marked a quarter century this year, 'The Only Plane in the Sky' took home the top award and Stephen King received a lifetime achievement as host Mo Rocca and others saluted the progress of the audiobook form over the past 25 years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#stephen king
#quarter century
#top award
#lifetime achievement
#audiobook form
#audiobook
#publishers association's