B- Reviews / Book ReviewsChristmas / Contemporary / crime fiction / New York City / widower / Writer2 Comments
It will take a Christmas miracle for two very different souls to find each other in this perfectly festive fairy tale of New York! Hopeless romantic Eva Jordan loves everything about Christmas. She might be spending the holidays alone this year, but when she’s given an opportunity to house-sit a ... more >
Publishing Newscamping / China / crime fiction / Descendants of the Sun / Ingrid Black / Korean military drama / motion book platform / nature writing / plagiarism7 Comments
The girl who stole my book: How Eilis O’Hanlon found out her crime novels were swiped by a stranger – For those who don’t read the comments to the news posts, “Anon” provided a link to this story in the comments to yesterday’s news post, and I think it deserves ... more >
Publishing Newscrime fiction / crowdfunding / diversity / marketing / reviews / soap operas / Stieg Larsson5 Comments
From ‘Dragon Tattoo’ To The ‘Spider’s Web’: Stieg Larsson’s Heroine Returns – So it has actually happened: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium novels are being continued with Swedish crime reporter David Lagercrantz as their author. Although Larsson did not exactly have a beautiful writing style, it’s going to be interesting to see ... more >
Publishing NewsArab fiction / Canada / Comics / copyright / crime fiction / education / Fair Use / gender / Gretna Green / patriarchy / Scotland / sexuality / textbooks / weddings11 Comments
New Spider-Woman comic cover condemned for ‘blatant sexualisation’ – An interesting illustration of the disconnect between the diversification of the comic reader and those still producing them (and a good companion piece to the diversity in publishing story from yesterday). The new cover, a “variant” cover by erotic illustrator Milo ... more >
Publishing Newscrime fiction / gender / genre / hackathon / independent booksellers / Newspapers / publishing2 Comments
FutureBookHack Category Winners revealed – Almost 100 hackers gathered at the University College London for the first FutureBookHack. Organized by The Bookseller and intended to address challenges set by publishers, the event spanned this past weekend and yielded a number of projects for both print and digital publishing. An overall ... more >