Carmen Callil’s publishing company has set about proving that there are many excellent but neglected women writers well worth publishing and reprintingMore women than men buy books; more women read books and more women write books, especially novels, and they always have. Yet women writers are more often than not consigned to some kind of weird ghetto called women writers. Whoever talked about men writers? Women writers are more likely to go out of print than male writers of the same reputation and calibre. Male writers are more likely to enter the canon of English literature and English school syllabuses than women writers who are equally good, or in many cases better. One English A level syllabus has no woman writer on it at all. In the last few years Virago Press has set about proving that there are many excellent but neglected women writers well worth publishing and reprinting. This year’s new catalogue appeared last week, listing 46 new books for 1981 — a remarkable success for a small feminist publishing collective which has been in business on its own for only five years. Carmen Callil first started the idea of a feminist press ten years ago. “I was in publicity for a large publishers. That’s traditional women’s work in publishing,” she says. She had founded her own publicity firm and was handling Ink, that alternative magazine of the late sixties and early seventies that flourished briefly and brightly and then perished with the flower children. Virago came out of... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#ursula owen
The departure of Victoria Barnsley from HarperCollins, and the appointment of Dame Gail Rebuck to... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#victoria barnsley
Ebury Press has signed the autobiography of football manager Harry Redknapp in a two-book deal... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ebury press
Following the completion of the merger between Penguin and Random House, CEO Markus Dohle announces the global senior executive team for the new Penguin Random House, which now controls around 25% of the trade book market in the US. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#press release
#random house
Virago is celebrating its 40th birthday by releasing a free ebook, This is Virago, with... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#40th birthday
#free ebook
Startup Crowd the Book launched in March, is using selective, online marketing to try and 'create a wildfire around great books published by small presses.' Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#book aims
#build community
#online marketing
#small presses
Part of the agenda of New Vessel Press, a recently launched ebook publisher, is to demonstrate that translated fiction can be as entertaining as it is edifying. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#vessel press
#translated fiction
Twenty-two published and unpublished authors last night (18th) shared the £40,000 prize... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#northern writers
#unpublished authors
Beginning January 1, 2013, Columbia University Press began to distribute frontlist and backlist titles from Transcript and, in a separate deal, Jagiellonian University Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#backlist titles
#separate deal
Headline has bought a new novel by Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees, for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#tinder press
#secret life
Ebury Press has acquired a second book by N M Gwynne, following up on this April's... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#ebury press
Granta is reprinting 60,000 copies of A M Homes' May We Be Forgiven after it scooped the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
The American novelist A M Homes has won the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction for her... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#american novelist
Baileys has become the new sponsor for the Women's Prize for Fiction, with the cream liqueur... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Vance collected a number of awards over the years, including Hugo Awards for 'The Dragon Masters' in 1963, 'The Last Castle' in 1967, and for his memoir 'This is Me, Jack Vance!' in 2010. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#jack vance
Midpoint Trade Books has signed a distribution deal with Changing Lives Press, a New York-based publisher of self-help titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#distribution deal
The digital publishing platform will let fans write, publish, and sell the stories they've written based on popular books, TV shows, and more. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#kindle worlds
#popular books
#tv shows
Amazon's taken a number of steps to bring different types of content to the Kindle Store, and it's now venturing into an area that has a long history with the internet: fan fiction. The company's today announced Kindle Worlds, a new publishing platform that promises to pay writers royalties for... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#warner bros
#alloy entertainment
#gossip girl
#vampire diaries
#finer details
#press release
#kindle worlds
Robson Press has lined up a biography of Maeve Binchy for this August Maeve Binchy: The... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#robson press
#maeve binchy
The folks at The Other 98% really, really don't want to see the Koch brothers to buy the Tribune Company. The non-profit organization has launched a fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to make a bid for the publishing company, which owns the Chic ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#koch brothers
#tribune company
#non-profit organization
The Guild of Food Writers Awards shortlists include a “wonderful diversity of subject... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with:
#wonderful diversity