American writer Courtney Zoffness has won the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award for her short story "Peanuts aren't nuts". Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s book centre Seven Stories will this July open an exhibition dedicated to illustrator Michael Foreman. ‘Painting with Rainbows – a Michael Foreman Exhibition’ will open on 19th July and will stay at the Seven Stories centre in Newcastle for a year, before going on tour around the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook can drive a lot of traffic to publishers, but the knock is that a lot of it is fly-by traffic. The Times is using a startup, KeyWee, to find subscribers among the casual readers, though. KeyWee comes up with keywords for articles and then targets the articles to Facebook users who are... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At this week's annual meeting of the International Christian Retail Show in Orlando, Fla., attendees expressed optimism about a show that has become, of late, more innovative. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Claire Fuller has won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2015 for her novel Our Endless Numbered Days (Fig Tree). Our Endless Numbered Days was described by chair of the judges Louise Doughty as "both shocking and subtle, brilliant and beautiful, a poised and elegant work that recalls the early work of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh has won the £3,000 PEN Ackerley Prize 2015 for his memoir Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Weidenfeld & Nicolson). The prize, the UK's only literary prize devoted to memoir and autobiography, had also shortlisted Other People's Countries by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Time Inc's Chief Content Officer takes exception to the idea that the flagship magazine is struggling. The post Time Keeps Ticking: Norm Pearlstine Responds appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors and publishers have just a day left to submit work to the relaunched Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, which is open to self-published writers this year for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Christy Awards for excellence in fiction were presented Monday at the Christian retail show in Orlando. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Libraries in Arizona and New York were each picked to receive nearly $7,000 in books and vouchers to promote graphic novels and build comics collections. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Society of Authors last night (25th June) distributed £85,000 to writers at its annual authors’ awards, giving out prizes to writers of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and material for teaching English. Author Ben Fergusson won the biggest prize of the night, receiving the £10,000 Betty Trask... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Doerr won for his book All The Light We Cannot See (which also received the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction), while Bryan Stevenson won for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After 600k personalised picture-book sales, London firm secures investment from Silicon Valley firms Google Ventures and GreycroftChildren’s storytelling startup Lost My Name raised its first $100k of funding in 2014 on TV show Dragon’s Den. Now the London-based firm is turning to Silicon Valley... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nominations open for Christianity Today book awards; NirV Bible now available in Anglicized edition. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A controversial plan to increase Sunday retail openings is going through French parliament in a wide-ranging economic bill that aims to boost growth and foreign investment. The bill proposes to increase from five to 12 the number of Sundays retailers can trade at the local mayor’s discretion,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Two children’s books with a historical theme have won this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, with Buffalo Soldier by Tanya Landman (Walker Books) picking up the Carnegie, and Shackleton’s Journey by Will Grill (from Nobrow imprint Flying Eye) receiving the Greenaway. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While the future of bookshops remains uncertain, one of Wellington's leading independent stores has proven there is still life left in them yet. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The winners of the 2015 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals were announced in London on Monday, June 22. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Joe Manganiello, who rose to fame as a werewolf on HBO's "True Blood," has sold his house in Hollywood Hills for $1.925 million. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A semifinal game of the Maranatha tournament on Friday night between Long Beach Poly and Fairfax produced a summer basketball game to remember. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonathan Cape has acquired at auction a “biography of the 1919 Spanish ‘flu pandemic’”. Alex Bowler, editorial director at Jonathan Cape, bought world rights after a three-way auction to Laura Spinney’s book from David Miller at Rogers, Coleridge & White. Bowler said: “Laura’s aim is a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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