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February 14, 2018

Wednesday News: Married Love, reading more, Shakespeare’s sources, and V-Day audiobook giveaway

JanetPublishing Newsaudiobooks / giveaway / historical sources / Marie Stope / sex and marriage / Shakespeare5 Comments

What can we learn from Marie Stopes’s 1918 book Married Love? – Rafia Zakaria discusses Stopes’s book, which was published in the era of the First World War – a year before The Sheik – and tackled the issue of sex in marriage. Like much Romance fiction, past and present, Stopes ... more >

February 1, 2017

REVIEW: Taming Sugar by Rebecca Grace Allen

KaetrinB ReviewsBDSM / Contemporary / Erotic-Romance / novella / Shakespeare1 Comments

Dear Rebecca Grace Allen, Taming Sugar is a BDSM novella loosely based around Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew.  Triple-threat Broadway up-and-comer, Roxy Cavanaugh, heads to upstate New York for a week of rusticating to learn patience, after she is sacked from a dream role for her rudeness to the ... more >

March 28, 2016

Monday News: BSFA Awards, FBI v. Apple, DC Rebirth lineup, and Shakespeare’s puns

JanetPublishing NewsAliette de Bodard / Apple / BSFA / DC-Comics / FBI / language / SFF / Shakespeare3 Comments

BSFA Awards – An excited shout of congratulations to Aliette de Bodard for winning two out of four British Science Fiction Association Award categories – Best Novel and Best Short Story – for The House of Shattered Wings and “Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight.” The full list of nominees can be found ... more >

January 4, 2016

Monday News: On writing, publishing, and transcribing

JanetPublishing Newsauthors / civil rights / Free Speech / Game of Thrones / George R.R. Martin / Hong Kong / publishing / Shakespeare / transcription9 Comments

Missing Hong Kong booksellers ‘working on book on Xi’s love life’ – Five Hong Kong publishing colleagues reportedly working on a book focused on the President of China’s former girlfriend have disappeared, prompting democratic legislator Albert Ho to allege that the men have been kidnapped for political purposes – specifically to ... more >

December 8, 2015

Tuesday News: E-book borrowing, new Shakespeare exhibit, Georgian gift guide, and revealing new photo book

JanetPublishing Newsdigital books / e-book lending / Georgian Era / gift guide / Libraries / museum exhibits / photography / Shakespeare16 Comments

New Study Finds Low Levels of Digital Library Borrowing – According to this summary of the latest Book Industry Study Group findings, libraries are not doing a great job of appealing to patrons who read digital books (you can download the executive summary for free here). Of library patrons surveyed, more ... more >

November 2, 2015

Monday News: Internet freedom, Amazon publishing, Shakespeare “translations,” and automatic thinking

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / censorship / cognitive processes / Free Speech / internet freedom / opinion / privacy / publishing / science / security / Shakespeare / translations3 Comments

The Internet is getting less and less free – The new Freedom House Freedom on the Net 2015 Report has been released, with its its country-by-country rankings (I think the country score comparison graph on the report page is even better than the map in the Wa Po article). Iceland and Estonia ... more >

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