Kickstarter launched for new online literary magazine Fictionable
The global COVID pandemic may have devastated many areas of life, but it has not quashed our love for reading. Figures from the Publishers Association showed that fiction sales for… Read more »
Disgraced former health minister in talks to publish new book How I Won the Covid War
Among the many hated and incompetent politicians in the UK, Matt Hancock rides high. Serving as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from July 2018, he resigned in June 2021 after… Read more »
Shake a leg! Actors to run between Sheffield theatres in simultaneous staging
Have you ever felt like you need to be in three places at once at work? Well, spare a thought for the cast of Rock/Paper/Scissors. As reported this week in What’s On… Read more »
New Richard Osman novel set to be one of the UK’s fastest-selling books of all time
How to explain Richard Osman to an American audience? This could be, ahem, pointless… Here goes: having grown up in Essex and studied at Cambridge University, Osman, a devoted disciple… Read more »
Salman Rushdie to serialise his new book with controversial online platform Substack
It seems serialisation could be making a come back. Widely popular in the Victoria era, writers including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Henry James often saw their novels first appear… Read more »
Boris Johnson willing to pay for expert to help write “his” new biography
Back in May we wrote about British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s long overdue biography making headlines, amidst accusations the PM missed important COVID meetings to put pen to paper. The pending… Read more »
Novelists struggle with lack of inspiration in lockdown
Your special correspondent for the inability to read, write, or otherwise function during the pandemic is back. This time, it’s the writers of novels who are citing all sorts of… 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 »
Booker Prize moves online; digital tomes abound
The famed Booker Prize, like everything else, has moved online this year. The prestigious award, which has a long history of skulduggery, controversy, and fractiousness, has been a relatively sedate… Read more »
Looks like everyone suddenly found time to finish that novel
Agents are reporting an inundation of submissions in recent days. As told to the Guardian: Literary agent Juliet Mushens, of the Caskie Mushens agency, usually receives between 10 and 15… Read more »