The authentic Jane Austen recipe book you never knew you needed
Over the past year and a half or so many of us have found great joy in trying new recipes. If you are one of those people and you love… Read more »
Alyea Canada
Alyea Canada is an editor at Melville House.
Turns out early science fiction predicted man-made climate change
Climate change is real and the stakes are pretty dire. While some of the modern proposed solutions to climate change have started to creep towards something out of science fiction,… Read more »
Bookshop.org raises £1 million for UK indie booksellers
It looks like Bookshop.org is continuing its meteoric rise across the pond. Allison Flood reports in the Guardian that the e-commerce site has raised one million pounds for independent booksellers… Read more »
Millennial professionals organize mobile libraries for children in rural India
Founded a year and a half ago, Dulkal Libraries has been organizing mobile and street libraries to help get books to children in government schools and rural communities across Tamil… Read more »
Is it time for the Big Five to rethink conservative publishing?
In the wake of the Capitol riots on January 6, Simon & Schuster cancelled Junior Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book on January 7. Almost as quickly, and after many conservative… Read more »
Mega-press Penguin Random House Simon & Schuster is not great
A couple of weeks ago Bertelsmann announced that it was buying Simon & Schuster, combining the largest and third largest publishers in the United States. The news was not well… Read more »
Royal Society of Literature unveils new diversity plan
In more “seriously it’s 2020 how is this just now happening” diversity news, the Royal Society of Literature (RSL) in the UK has announced that the late Andrea Levy will… Read more »
NaNoWriMo is here!
It’s November! The last month of the best season (fall)! I’m sure we all have complicated feelings about November this year and many of us are still at home with… Read more »
One partnership sending books to prisons
One thing many people have learned during the various stages of coronavirus lockdown is that books make for excellent escapes. For incarcerated people this has long been a truth, but… Read more »
Indie bookstores are nervous about the holiday season
This year has been a garbage fire for everyone, but in the publishing industry, indie booksellers have had a particularly rough go of it. For many indies their business model… Read more »