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Publishing NewsBroadway / gaming / Lynn Nottage / orc romance / Paula Vogel / playwrights1 Comments
Two Female Playwrights Arrive on Broadway. What Took So Long? – A lovely and sometimes understandably plaintive profile of Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel (their careers and their work), both of whom have plays on Broadway this season, their first, despite Pulitzer prizes, Ivy League teaching jobs, international fame and recognition, and decades of work behind ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / celebrity likeness / India / Jane Austen / Nikita Singh / politics / Romance novel covers / Theodore Beale9 Comments
A romance novel in two weeks! – Forget the title of this article, because it distracts from the actual content, which is focused on Nikita Singh, who has written ten books (her first at age 19 while she was in pharmacy school) and is published by Penguin India. Singh is a Romance ... more >
Publishing Newsfeminism / RNA / Romance genre / Romance novel awards / romantic fiction / RWA8 Comments
Winner announced for RNA’s Romantic Novel of the Year Award – The Romantic Novelists’ Association awarded its award winners last week, in seven categories: Contemporary, Epic, Historical Romantic Novel, Paranormal or Speculative Romantic Novel, Romantic Comedy, RoNA Rose, and the Goldsboro Books Romantic Novel of the Year. Author and chef Prue Leith presented the ... more >
Publishing NewsChuck Berry / Cory Doctorow / lawsuits / Libraries / Oxford comma / publishing / rock music6 Comments
Dilemma for librarians: Keep thousands of books or donate them? – Libraries, like all collections, must be curated, and part of that process is ensuring that books on the shelves are both in good condition and in good standing, historically speaking. At what point does a book become outdated, for example, ... more >
Publishing Newsblasphemy / Book Awards / children's literature / Clueless / Comic books / Facebook / Islamophobia / Louise Erdrich / TwitterNo Comments
Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Among Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards – I have always loved Louise Erdrich’s books, because despite their often grim elements, there is a sense of gentleness and illuminated love in her writing (similar IMO to the film “Moonlight”). So I’m thrilled to see that she ... more >
Publishing NewsAmy Krouse Rosenthal / Asian-American women / Beek / book apps / Latin America / obituary / photography / portraiture / Women's History Month1 Comments
‘You may want to marry my husband’ Chicago essayist dead at 51 – I am happy to see such robust coverage of Rosenthal’s death, if only because it will introduce even more readers to her work and continue to build her legacy. Rosenthal’s recent NYT Modern Love column likely introduced more readers ... more >
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