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January 18, 2016

Monday News: Hong Kong publishing mystery, children’s book pulled, Avon’s 75th anniversary, and Taiwan’s “glass slipper” church

JanetPublishing Newsanniversary / Avon / book banning / China / churches / diversity / fairy tale / Free Speech / Hong Kong / publishing / Race / scholastic / slavery / Taiwan / weddings / Woodiwiss6 Comments

One of Hong Kong’s missing booksellers just reappeared to confess to an 12-year-old crime – With Sweden increasing its interest in the disappearance of one of the missing publishers, Gui Minhai was shown on state-run television confessing to a drunk-driving accident in which he allegedly killed a woman more than ten years ago. ... more >

October 5, 2015

Monday News: Death of a playwright, a book-banning librarian, the art of map-making, and how to hack your book cover

JanetPublishing Newsbook banning / book-covers / censorship / Ireland / librarian / literature / maps / obituary / playwright / psychology3 Comments

Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 – The writer behind such classics as Dancing at Lughnasa, Faith Healer, and The Loves of Cass McGuire died last week at his home in Ireland. Before becoming a playwright, Friel contemplated becoming a priest, taught math, and wrote short stories ... more >

July 30, 2015

Thursday News: celebrating Romance, restricting books, rewriting Little Women, and erasing women’s history

JanetPublishing Newsbest of list / book banning / dystopian / gender / Louisa May Alcott / museum / npr / television adaptation / women's history / YA11 Comments

Happy Ever After: 100 Swoon-Worthy Romances – An interesting list that at the very least reflects the difficulty in making any kind of “best of” list. If that’s what this is. We get back, pretty quickly, to the question of what makes a Romance novel effective, and what “good” or “best” ... more >

June 22, 2015

Monday News: Biracial Spider-Man, Germany limits erotic ebook sales, teacher resigns over King & King, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag

JanetPublishing Newsbook banning / censorship / Comic books / Confederate flag / diversity / Ebooks / erotica / History / LGBTQIAP+ / Marvel / racism / Spiderman8 Comments

EXCLUSIVE: Spider-Man Miles Morales — popular biracial version of the hero — joins main Marvel comics universe this fall -Let’s start with the good news today. Marvel continues to try to diversify their heroic universe, this time with biracial Miles Morales, who will make his debut as the new Spider-Man ... more >

May 5, 2015

Tuesday News: Twitter in Trouble?, why cover art matters, sexism in science, and Chipotle’s essay contest

JanetPublishing Newsbook banning / censorship / cover-art / gender / institutional sexism / science / social media / teens / Twitter / writing contests7 Comments

Twitter at the Crossroads – According to David Auerbach’s article at Slate, Twitter is in big trouble. Not only is it failing to acquire enough users, but earnings are apparently bleak. In the meantime Twitter has acquired TellApart, which is described as “a leading marketing technology company providing retailers and ... more >

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