The Bold Type: a blemish-free face of 21st-century empowerment

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The Bold Type: a blemish-free face of 21st-century empowerment

Employees of Scarlet, a women's glossy on New York's Upper East Side and part of the Steinem (geddit?) publishing portfolio, all three are working their way up from assistant level and striving to succeed in journalism. As the magazine's social media director, Kat is currently the frontrunner. “I want to be
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The 4 Tendencies: Which one are you? The Upholder, Questioner, Obliger or Rebel

The Speaker: Dubbed a “Happiness Guru”, best-selling author Gretchen Rubin started her career in law and was clerking at the Supreme Court when she realized she wanted to be a writer. To date, the Manhattan-based speaker has written several self-help guides, and indexes on the happiest places
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Khadija Abdullahi Daleys, The Mother of Somali Music, Has Passed Away

When French publishing company Bilibok approached Nsafou years later after reading an article on her blog on representation and diversity in literature, they asked her to write a book based on a Toni Morrison quote from the book God Help the Child: “Her clothes were white, her hair like a million black
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Claptrap Voice David Eddings Named Head of Publishing at Rooster Teeth Games

Blue. However the company has also had a game development studio for a couple of years called Rooster Teeth Games. That studio also has a game publishing arm, seeking out potentially exciting games. The developer closed its week by naming a new Head of Publishing, David Eddings. If that name
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A Call to Action for Publishers In the #MeToo Moment

When the Weinstein, Rose, and Lauer media powerhouses fell so quickly and so permanently, I was sure that the book publishing industry would also have its day of reckoning. After all, for decades, many in the industry have experienced the nightmare of sexual harassment and discrimination without a
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University of Winchester hosts 'This Changes Everything' art exhibition

The exhibition was organised by Glenn Fosbraey, programme leader of creative writing and the label boss at Splendid Fred Records. Glenn said: “Creating the album, This Changes Everything, was one small step on the way to alerting people of crucial environmental issues. This exhibition aims to build
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Supreme Court Case Threatens the Future of Unions

When employees of the New York Daily News contract expired, the Guild went on strike. The publishers, who had a $115 million deficit from the past decade, were unwavering in their demands to fire 700 to 1,000 unionized workers. The strike lasted for a year and ended with a big win for the publishers.
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Feb. 4-6: Agave Baroque, Insignificance, Robert Chiarito, Alan Blackman, Earplay, Kelly Corrigan …

Kelly Corrigan: The best-selling Bay Area memoir writer — “the poet laureate of the ordinary” — launches her new nonfiction title, “Tell Me More: Stories … Maxine Chernoff: The SFSU creative writing professor appears in a “Writers on Writing” session, focusing on her newest poetry collection “Camera.
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