Josh Tierney's webcomic 'Spera' showcases an international cast of artists that gained prominence through the internet, including Giannis Milonogiannis. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Executives from Storytel and Kobo offer insights into the meteoric rise of audiobooks in the U.S. and abroad. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three Big Five CEOs are scheduled for a session from BookExpo and the Association of American Publishers. And the UK's award for writers aged 18 to 35 opens for submission. The post Industry Notes: US Publishers Association Announces Book Expo Panels; UK’s Sunday Times Prize Opens for Entries... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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BookExpo announced two panels that will be held at its forthcoming trade show featuring a number of industry CEOs and leaders, including the top executives at Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Usborne has acquired the UK and Commonwealth rights to Namina Forna’s Deathless, a debut YA fantasy inspired by the author’s experience of the Sierra Leone civil war. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The MoCCA Arts Festival, an annual gathering of Indie and self-published comics and graphic novels organized by the Society of Illustrators, attracted one of its biggest crowds in recent memory. 'Publishers Weekly' was there to bring back images of the artists and events during the weekend show,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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When something is on people’s minds, publishers notice. In the past year, there has been a surge of books about politics. That means there will be a plethora of conversations about politics at the Festival of Books. Here are a few favorites. For an in-depth conversation about our president, don’t... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The role-playing adventure books sold 20m copies in the 80s, before being eclipsed by video games. Now they’re back with a new story by Charlie Higson, can they captivate the web generation?Ian Livingstone calls it the “five-fingered bookmark”: that grip known to children of the 80s and 90s.... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The protagonists of Japanese comic books come in various forms. There are warriors and ghost hunters, surgeons and teachers, detectives and chefs. And, of course, athletes. The authors of sports-themed stories have taken the liberties of bestowing their characters with supernatural abilities,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Earlier this year, The Bookseller issued a call for illustrators to submit their work to our Illustrator Showcase, in association with the Association of Illustrators. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Twenty-five judges will produce 50 longlisted titles, then 25 shortlisted books, and finally five winners of the 2018 National Book Awards, this year with the all-new Translation Literature prize among them. The post National Book Foundation Opens Its 2018 Award Submissions and Names Judging... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012, yesterday spoke to Hachette UK staff at a showcase in London about her new book and advocacy for girls and women's rights. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new exhibition, funded by Arts Council England and coinciding with London Book Fair's Baltic market focus, will be showcasing diverse, emerging artists from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the UK in April and May. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Bookseller is to run an Illustrators’ Showcase at this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair devoted to displaying the art-work of new illustrators. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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I’m books editor Carolyn Kellogg; welcome to this week’s newsletter. THE BIG STORY Akwaeke Emezi’s dazzling debut novel, “Freshwater,” is about a shattered self, a college-age human whose turmoils are driven by spirits and gods. Emezi, a Nigerian American who has written about having... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2018-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Borough Press has scooped a debut novel by British author Joe Mungo Reed, described as "dazzling" by his professor George Saunders. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Faber & Faber has acquired a "dazzling" debut novel by Akwaeke Emezi which explores "multiple and marginalised realities". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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George R R Martin is funding a new annual scholarship at a science fiction and fantasy six-week course to “help the next great fantasist on the long journey ahead”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new exhibition on "master of graphic design", Berthold Wolpe, a cover designer for Faber, is to open this spring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The panel of judges for the 2018 Man Booker Prize will include crime writer Val McDermid and feminist writer and critic Jacqueline Rose. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editors and agents are predicting a continued focus on empowering female-led narratives and diverse voices in children’s and YA books in 2018. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-12-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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