“This is probably the biggest reading event I’ve ever attended,” says Kristi Charish, who’s coming from Canada to attend her first BookExpo. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In "The Andromeda Evolution," Daniel H. Wilson tracks a new infection that threatens to destroy humanity. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-11-11 09:48:48 UTC ]
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Female-first social networking company Bumble has partnered with an Austin nonprofit to provide financing for women entrepreneurs. Bumble, which operates legally as Bumble Trading Inc., has announced it will match up to $20,000 in grants through Nov. 6 to The 750 Fund: Somos Poderosas,... Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2019-11-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Two digital media veterans say the industry isn’t dying, just taking a different shape. Bleak headlines about the demise of the media world seem to appear almost daily. Is it possible for digital media to even survive?Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-11-07 16:45:58 UTC ]
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Set in 1946 in Little, Rock, Ark., 'Two Dead' by Van Jensen and Nate Powell is the fictional story of Gideon Kemp, a returning WWII veteran and trained law enforcement officer, secretly recruited to the police force by the city’s mayor in an effort to put an end to the sadistic, violent tenure... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-11-06 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Novels by authors including Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath and Salman Rushdie have been recognised by the BBC in a new list of novels that have shaped the world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-05 15:14:17 UTC ]
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Michael Korda shares the strain of caring for a woman used to being in control — who no longer can be. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-31 21:29:37 UTC ]
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Several UK publishers have their eyes on the UK rights to novelist Patricia Highsmith’s extensive diaries, which will for the first time tell of the author’s “heart-break, difficult choices, hard-won professional triumphs and a furiously fast-paced social life”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 19:04:45 UTC ]
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Funny women who write, Helen Lederer decided, needed award recognition. So she started a prize program, Comedy Women in Print. This is its second year. The post The UK’s Comedy Women in Print Prize Adds Graphic Novel Category appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-25 05:45:30 UTC ]
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In “The Mirror of My Heart,” Dick Davis gives voice to writers from the 15th century to the present Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-23 17:04:25 UTC ]
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National Geographic is turning its Instagram account over to the women this week. The science, adventure and exploration content publisher is celebrating its Women of Impact month, highlighted by the November issue of its magazine, which debuted Oct. 15. National Geographic director of Instagram... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-10-23 13:00:11 UTC ]
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Dead Reckoning, the graphic novel imprint of the Naval Institute Press, has teamed with Marvel Comics to produce 'Atlas at War,' a hardcover collection of classic combat comics stories created by a group of now-acclaimed artists, among them Jack Kirby, Bernie Krigstein, and John Severin. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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The former United States Secretary of Homeland Security is attending the event in Washington D.C. and a number of people are not pleased. Power is an intangible commodity with a fluid definition. Among the participants in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington DC this week are CEO’s... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-10-22 14:45:41 UTC ]
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Tom Penn, publishing director at Penguin Press, has acquired Rebel Citizen: A History of Black Women Living, Loving and Resisting by feminist historian Jade Bentil. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-20 15:48:26 UTC ]
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Her novels, short stories and poetry were dense with lush and spellbinding imagery. As a teacher, one former student said, “She lived and died by the word.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-10-18 22:39:19 UTC ]
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Gail Collins tells the stories of those who made their mark in middle age and beyond. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-18 13:47:38 UTC ]
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Amid what Amazon Publishing's Mikyla Bruder describes as 'the unconscious bias you're confronted with every day,' panelists call for equal pay for women. The post Publishing Perspectives Talks: Executive Women on Pay and Bias in the Book Business appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-18 04:27:59 UTC ]
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The audiobook version of “Catch and Kill” features first-rate reporting and some wince-worthy character work. (You do NOT want to hear him do Trump’s voice.) What: The least necessary vocal inflection in recent memory.Read Full Story Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2019-10-16 14:20:58 UTC ]
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Lit Lists Olivia McCourry Asja BakićMarsTranslated by Jennifer Zoble Feminist Press, 2019 With imaginative and striking prose, Bosnian author Asja Bakić’s debut story collection, Mars, tells a tale of a series of different universes. Each realist tale... Continue reading at World Literature Today
[ World Literature Today | 2019-10-16 13:12:17 UTC ]
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Liverpool indie Dead Ink has bought Cat Step, a novel by Alison Irvine, author of The Road is Red, in what publishing director Nathan Connolly called a "significant" acquisition. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-14 02:38:41 UTC ]
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Indie publishers have dominated a record-breaking longlist for the third annual Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 10:26:23 UTC ]
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