September 23, 2014

In the past few years Hilary Mantel has become a literary superstar, winning a second Booker for her Thomas Cromwell series and being made a Dame in 2014 for her… Read more »

Arts & Culture

Salman Rushdie, Ian Rankin and Joanne Harris amongst those recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list — Nikki Griffiths
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million — Nikki Griffiths
Waterstones appeal aims to raise £1m for Ukraine disaster fund — Tom Clayton
The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths

The first rule of Jeff Bezos’s writers retreat is don’t talk about Jeff Bezos’s writers retreat

Alex Shephard

The second rule is no fighting. Back in 2011, we were among the first to note that Jeff Bezos holds an annual, all-expenses-paid writers retreat called Amazon Campfire in New Mexico. As… Read more »

NYC think tank looks to the future of library branches

Nick Davies

The Center for an Urban Future (CUF) released a lengthy report last week that details the issues facing New York City’s various library branches and how to address them, Lisa… Read more »

Nigerian publishing industry drama displaying signs of improvement, initialisms

The Nigerian Tribune has reported some good news regarding the state of the Nigeria’s publishing industry; it will continue to exist, at least for now. The Tribune details successful talks between… Read more »

Who is Amazon’s Ryan Seacrest?

Kirsten Reach

Amazon has been sending emails to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors about a new crowd-sourcing program that doesn’t have a launch date or URL yet. Targeting self-published authors, in hopes… Read more »

Melville House Books

Hilary Mantel vs Margaret Thatcher

Zeljka Marosevic