At the 7th edition of FICCI's PubliCon 2017 today, Pathak called for publishers to help them advocate the message of safety of women, senior citizens, children, and a better society at large. “Initially the idea was about posting small cartoons, or comic books of 4-5 panels on road safety using social media
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Author, mother, and nap-time entrepreneur Katie Cross offers an explanation for why it's normal for indie authors to struggle with Imposter Syndrome, and also specific strategies for how to deal with it. This week's highlights include: Katie's success as a YA author and her move into chick lit via Wattpad.
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Richard Johnson, Bonnier Publishing's group chief executive, has slammed the industry's “obsession with targets and quotas” when it comes to addressing lack of diversity in the book world as “nonsense”. Delivering the opening key note at the FutureBook 2017 Conference this morning (1st December),
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RECOUNTING HISTORY: Anthony MacQuillan, Maureen Collins and Peter Bindon with the Early Days of Yass by Mary Yeo at Yeo Crescent, which was named after the Yeo family. Photo: Toby Vue. Community and pro-bono publishers Peter Bindon and Anthony MacQuillan and the Yass and District
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HarperCollins has inked a “major” world English and foreign language publishing agreement with thriller writer Karin Slaughter. The deal is for four more books in English as well as more than a dozen additional languages. The titles are scheduled to be published annually through to 2022, and will
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Golding recently graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University with distinction. This year she won the short story prize at the Mid Somerset Festival, as well as the Evelyn Sanford trophy for highest mark in the prose class. Her short stories have been featured at the Leicester-based
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McDonald was announced as the winner of the £3,000 prize at the Kendal Mountain Festival on Friday evening. Vertebrate Publishing books have won the Boardman Tasker Award on three prior occasions with The Bond by Simon McCartney scooping last year's award, Cold Wars by Andy Kirkpatrick
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Geraldine Becker, a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, along with publishing essays and creative writing in various journals and anthologies. Her first book of poems is “Glad Wilderness.” Scott Wheeler of Derby, Vt., the publisher of Vermont's Northland
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