Publishing Newsdiversity / DNA / ebook lending / History / Hollywood / Nebula Awards / smallpox / UK libraries3 Comments
This year’s Nebula Award nominees are incredibly diverse — read some online – What I like about this Verge coverage of the Nebula nominees is that it provides direct links to those works available free online, a collection that includes almost all the short stories and novelettes. The final award winners ... more >
Publishing Newsbest of lists / Casey Affleck / dictionary / Hollywood / literary awards / sexual harassment / world building1 Comments
The most ambitious, irritating, hopeful and overrated books of 2016 — and the best one, too – With all the “best of” booklists you see at the end of the year, I appreciated the range of Carlos Lozada’s list, from most hopeful to saddest to laziest to “most overrated book I read ... more >
Publishing Newsbook kiosks / gender identity / Hollywood / LGBTQ / Libraries / parental rights / schools / sexism / women1 Comments
The Women of Hollywood Speak Out – As much as we talk about the respect problem for female authors, there seems to be an interesting comparison (or contrast?) to make with women in Hollywood, who are being paid less than their male counterparts and who continue to struggle to make up ... more >
Publishing NewsCarina / Ebooks / Harlequin / heroes / Hollywood / literary award / piracy / RNA / scams4 Comments
Carina Press Celebrates Fifth Anniversary -Carina is five years old today, and to celebrate, they’re having a sale! Until 11:59 p.m. EDT, June 8th, you can get 55% of all titles on CarinaPress.com with coupon code HAPPY5. Carina’s milestones include: Sold more than six million books At the end of June 2015, 848 ... more >
Publishing NewsAngela Carter / children's lit / diversity / Fairy-Tales / Fantasy / gender / Hollywood / literacy / SFF / YA2 Comments
James Patterson Debuts New Children’s Imprint – I have to give James Patterson credit – he’s putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to his own publishing ideals. His new venture is a YA imprint, jimmy patterson, will publish 10 books a year, half of which will ... more >
Publishing NewsArt / book-sales / Carly Phillips / digital publishing / Ebooks / fan-fiction / filmmaking / gender / genres / graphic novels / Hollywood / Kindle Worlds / Race10 Comments
What Nielsen Bookscan data tells us about ebook sales cycles & the ebook plateau – This is a great piece that takes some of the other analytical treatments of ebook data and subjects them to a different set of questions and inferences. So instead of stopping at the point where ... more >