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Ghost stories

The Guardian site has a survey of the long tradition of ghostwriting, pegged to a recent book deal for footballer Wayne Rooney, who has signed a five-book deal (!) with HarperCollins in the U.K. Hunter ... Read More »

March 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Bergen bows out first in Tournament of Books

By Leigh Anne Williams

For the second year in a row, the American website The Morning News has assembled a group of book reviewers and commentators to whittle a list of 16 notable books from 2005 down to one ... Read More »

March 23, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Vermont: Canada's newest province

By Scott MacDonald

Earlier this year, The Guardian's Culture Vulture blog made a New Year's resolution of a kind: to embark on a world literature tour spotlighting work from countries overlooked on the literary map; that is to ... Read More »

March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

Paperback writer

By Scott MacDonald

One more potential sign of the downturn of literary fiction: according to a recent article in The New York Times, more and more American publishers are opting to release more and more literary fiction titles ... Read More »

March 22, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Trends in YA reading, part two

By Scott MacDonald

In the Sunday edition of The New York Times, Naomi Wolf addressed a troubling increase of a certain class of books targeted at young female readers. The books, which include Lisi Harrison's Clique series, Cecily ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Trends in YA reading, part one

By Scott MacDonald

The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Da Vinci Code on trial — again

By Scott MacDonald

Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown took to the stand yesterday as the star defence witness in a copyright infringement lawsuit being launched against his publisher, Random House. The claimants this time around are Richard ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

No, they're not letting up

By Scott MacDonald

In yet another bid to popularize the presentation of books online and worm its way into the hearts of publishers, Google has announced a new offer through which readers can purchase the right to read ... Read More »

March 14, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Writers and prizes, part 1

By Leigh Anne Williams

Lionel Shriver, who won last year's Orange Prize for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, has written an open letter to this year's longlisted authors, warning them about the dizzying publicity and attention ... Read More »

March 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

Writers and prizes, part 2

By Leigh Anne Williams

Is anyone connected with Brokeback Mountain more bitter about its Best Picture loss than Annie Proulx, whose short story was the film's source text? It's hard to imagine. In an essay on the Guardian site, ... Read More »

March 13, 2006 | Filed under: Industry news

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