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Fun with press releases (Choose Your Own Adventure edition)

Word is that the much-loved – er, well, much-remembered – Choose Your Own Adventure books are about to relaunch with a new series (with Canadian Manda distributing in Canada). So it only makes sense that ... Read More »

April 5, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Literary role models

By Alison Jones

A new literary award for Australian authors has been announced. The Australian Society of Authors established the Barbara Jefferis Award to honour "the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

Timing is everything (Canadian arts funding edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The Writers' Union of Canada is organizing a rally in Ottawa later this month to protest the lack of federal arts funding. From the TWUC press release: In conjunction with other arts groups, The Writers’ ... Read More »

April 4, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Fun with blurbs (Rebecca Eckler edition)

By Leigh Anne Williams

The other day a finished copy of Rebecca Eckler's new memoir, Wiped, arrived here at the Q&Q home office, complete with a press release that included some admiring blurbs of Eckler's first book, Knocked Up. ... Read More »

April 2, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

That's the story of my life

By Leigh Anne Williams

Is it early 2006 already? Slate is tapping into the hot (OK, cooling) topic of memoirs with "Memoir Week," a series of articles on the form, as well as first-person essays by authors. Among the ... Read More »

March 29, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Tyra Banks would approve

By Alison Jones

Jane Austen, though a much beloved author, is apparently not hot enough to sell books. According to an article posted on the Guardian's website, Wordsworth editions is Photoshopping a more appealing portrait of her for ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The vultures continue to circle

By Alison Jones

As reported in The Sydney Morning Herald, two of Anna Nicole Smith's diaries sold on eBay for $500, 000 US. In the diaries, Smith discusses her dislike of sex and the illness of her 90-year-old ... Read More »

March 27, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

U.S. Army desperately seeking Key

By Nathan Whitlock

The Globe and Mail reports that the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command has been trying to find and question Joshua Key, a deserter who took refuge in Canada and recently published an account of his ... Read More »

March 23, 2007 | Filed under: Industry news

Orange Prize: there's good news and bad news

By Alison Jones

An article for the Independent discusses the recently announced longlist for Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, a prize for women writers, and the overall disappointment that this year's chair, Muriel Gray, feels about the books ... Read More »

March 20, 2007 | Filed under: Awards, Industry news

About those fairy tales…

By Nathan Whitlock

Will Davis writes in The Guardian's book blog about the latest round of controversy over the appearance of gay characters in children's lit in Britain. Davis was not surprised to hear of condemnations from Christian ... Read More »

March 16, 2007 | Filed under: Book news, Children's publishing, Industry news, Opinion

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