Daisy Boots Book Shop stocks new titles, with an emphasis on children's fiction and nonfiction, new and classic fiction, and nonfiction titles—particularly those covering sport, mind body and spirit, business, cooking and gardening. Owner Andrew Humphries told Books+Publishing that feedback to the
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I love to write poems, so in the beginning of the course I wrote a few poems. Then I decided to start a novel because our teacher told us we would get them published at the end of the year! We used a site called Bookemon (bookemon.com) to publish our books. After I worked all year on my book, “A Bad
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As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the Garret launched in November 2016, and was shortlisted in the Cast Away Australian Podcast Awards in March 2017. It is hosted by Nicolas Brasch and produced by Astrid Edwards, in partnership with the State Library Victoria, Swinburne University,
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Several UK publishers have signed a letter urging organisers of the Man Booker Prize to reconsider the rule change in 2013 that made US-authored titles eligible for the prize, reports the Bookseller. The letter, which was led by John Murray UK publisher Mark Richards and has received signatures from
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Waled Hassan and his wife, Wafa Safi, moved to northwest Carmel in 2008. They love the area but drive 30 to 45 minutes to Fishers almost daily. Safi teaches biology and environmental science at Hamilton Southeastern High School, and the mosque they regularly attend is in Fishers, the Al-Huda
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Nasadiya Technologies' self-publishing platform Pratilipi announced it had raised $4.3 million in Series A round of funding led by Omidyar Network with participation from existing investors, Nexus Venture Partners, Atul Goel, Contrarian Capital and Times Internet Limited, and new investors Shunwei
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Joe Rubbo will move from his current role managing Readings Doncaster to take up the position of manager of the Carlton shop. Rubbo is replacing Robbie Egan, who was previously both Carlton shop manager and group operations manager, and Egan will now concentrate solely on his role as group
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The book was delayed by Allen & Unwin in November 2017, with the publisher citing the threat of legal action from the Chinese government. Hamilton, who requested the rights to the book be returned, has since rewritten the book to minimise the legal risk. In a statement, Hardie Grant CEO Sandy Grant
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