"Fake," "Hammer" and “Portrait of an Unknown Lady” are literary thrillers that explore authenticity through the lens, or rather the canvases, of the art world. Continue reading at 'The Washington Post'
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From Chesterton to Christie to Conan Doyle to Highsmith, tracing the modern detective novel back to its roots. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hunter S Thompson’s ‘gonzo’ account of a drug-addled road trip has been adapted into a graphic novel by artist Troy LittleHunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – intimately bound up in most readers’ minds with Ralph Steadman’s hallucinatory illustrations – is set to be turned into a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Charles Belfoure's writing career began when he wrote his thesis while studying for an M.A. in architecture at Columbia University. While he'd done a lot of drawing in his bid to become a professional architect, it was the first time, he says, that he actually wrote anything of any significant... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Studio 28, the digital-publishing arm of Curtis Brown Literary & Talent Agency, is to publish its first original title. The Swiss Spy by Alex Gerlis will be published as an ebook on Monday 1st June. Studio 28 officially launched in March this year, and will publish in the UK and other... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Less than a year after she moved from HarperCollins’s Ecco imprint to Little, Brown to head her own imprint, Lee Boudreaux is putting the finishing touches on her first list of eight books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A capacity crowd of approximately 1,000 people turned out to watch BEA's curtain-raising event, a highly anticipated conversation between bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen and Laura Miller of Salon.com. The discussion centered on 'Purity,' Franzen's fifth novel and his first since 2010's... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Although the big two of comics publishing, Marvel and DC Comics, have opted to sit out BEA this year, there will still be plenty of comics publishers dotting the Javits Center floor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins, which will start publishing German-language books in the autumn, is not the only international publisher to set up shop in Germany. Munich-based Verlagsgruppe Random House has just announced the launch of Penguin Verlag. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The lines of communication between librarians and publishers are open, and this year’s BEA program features a number of panels dedicated to keeping a dialogue going. Among the highlights: Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently said that with artificial intelligence we’re "summoning the demon", he wasn’t joking. He was genuinely concerned about artificial intelligence turning against humanity, and according to a new book by Ashlee Vance, he still is. In his new book,... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A one day conference brought together publishers from both the U.S. and French markets to share statistics and explore the potential for bringing more Francophone comics to the U.S. market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo America shifts to midweek this year, running Wednesday through Friday rather than Thursday through Saturday as in years past. The show comes to New York City’s Javits Center next week, May 27–29, and the change in scheduling is aimed at making way for BookCon, which is open to the... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Things are changing in U.S. comics and French comics publishers are meeting in New York to discuss the U.S. market and look for ways to stoke demand for French graphic novels in North America. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new cookbook from Bloomsbury by celebrity chef Vikas Khanna is printed in gold ink, launched at Cannes, and costs $13,000. The post World’s Most Expensive Cookbook? Yes, It is $13,000 appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers should help authors to identify their digital skills, but social media is “not the most important thing”, writers and industry insiders have told The Bookseller. Authors should feel comfortable with any digital activity they are asked to undertake, using tweeting, blogging and other... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'Improbable Libraries,' by Alex Johnson, chronicles the lengths to which librarians the world over will go to serve their communities. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The BBC is adapting Hilary Mantel’s novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, following its recent adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (all Fourth Estate). The 1992 novel tells the story of three young men who were key... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reports from the last few weeks hinted it was coming, but the debut of Facebook's Instant Articles sent a shiver down plenty of publisher's spines this morning anyway. And why wouldn't they react in that fashion? One of their chief traffic drivers could suddenly siphon away audiences and ad... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sheikha Bodour, founder of the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA), discusses initiatives aimed at professionalizing publishing in the Arab world. The post On Developing Publishing in the Arab World and the UAE appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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