Sinéad Morrissey wins 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey has won this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2013 collection, Parallax – her fifth volume, published, like each of…
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What impact has social media had on marketing & product development?
I’ve been really fascinated to start to see the impact social media has been having on the marketing and product development teams of Publishing houses.…
E. L. James presumably flattered by comparison to Hitler
In a fascinating post over at Vocativ, author Chris Faraone outlines what he calls ‘Hitler’s big comeback’ in the age of e-readers, suggesting that a…
Morrissey to follow Autobiography with novel
Having proven himself a reliable font of publishing news throughout the latter half of 2013 – whether pushing through the release of his Autobiography on…
BookMachine will return in… Moonraker? Oh, no, in 2014
Frankly, it can be hard enough finding stuff to blog about the rest of the year*, so if you think BookMachine is going to continue…
Bridget Jones tops charts as Christmas shopping continues
Helen Fielding’s third Bridget Jones novel – Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – has returned to the top of the UK hardback fiction charts…
US edition of Morrissey memoir loses same-sex relationship
Morrissey’s Autobiography – the singer’s self-explanatory memoir, released with some degree of fanfare by Penguin Classics in the UK in October – has already met…
Black Francis working on a graphic novel that sounds nuts
Though foundational indie rock heroes Pixies have seemingly been doing everything in their power of late to alienate long-term fans – parting ways with iconic,…
Trainspotting named best Scottish novel of past 50 years
As part of Book Week Scotland – which ran throughout last week from 25 November to 1 December – the Scottish Book Trust has revealed…
Book-ish events in NYC in December
As the holiday season picks up, New York does not forget the gift of words. Check out these bookish December events. December 2: The Half…
New tech company Saundz enters the world of English Language Teaching (ELT)
Sophie O’Rourke has a keen interest in ELT developments. Here she speaks to Milena Jerkov Bibic at Saundz, a high-tech pronunciation software for language learners,…
Philip Jones to speak at final Galley Club event of year
The Galley Club – the not for profit London-based social organisation for those who work in publishing – holds its last event of the year…
Release date scheduled for new David Mitchell novel
Sceptre has announced that David Mitchell will publish his new novel on 4 September 2014. The Bone Clocks is Mitchell’s sixth novel, his first since…
Marketing your book on a budget
Most authors do not have a fortune to invest in book publicity, but you’ll still want to ensure that your book launch is given the…
David Sedaris to tour England in 2014
Following another successful run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, ever-popular essayist David Sedaris has announced a 2014 tour of England with his show An Evening…
