Tag: diversity

News & Notes – Pi Day 3.1415…

News & Notes – Pi Day 3.1415…

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News Harper Lee’s Literary Agent Disputes Claims of Elder Abuse. And it seems that the state of Alabama, which launched an investigation, concurs that Lee… Read more »

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News & Notes – 2/28/15

News & Notes – 2/28/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News The 2014 Nebula Award nominees were announced on Feb 20. (SFWA) You can see the entire list here. Hitler’s Mein Kampf returns to Germany… Read more »

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News & Notes – 2/07/15

News & Notes – 2/07/15

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News A previously-unpublished novel by Harper Lee is coming in July 2015. (BBC)  The novel is a sequel of sorts to Lee’s sole published novel,… Read more »

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News & Notes – 1/17/14

News & Notes – 1/17/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff News and Notes is back from the holidays! Book News How Harry Potter fans won a four-year fight against child slavery (Washington Post). After a four-year… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/19/14

News & Notes – 7/19/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Amazon launched Kindle Unlimited, a subscription ebook service similar to Oyster and Scribd. They’re… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/10/14

News & Notes – 5/10/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: After the popularity of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign, BookCon is adding a panel on diversity… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/03/14

News & Notes – 5/03/14

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Harper Lee finally agrees to issue To Kill a Mockingbird as an ebook and… Read more »

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Gender in fiction

Gender in fiction

Katherine Kerr had a wonderful guest post on Jim Hines’ blog a week or so ago, all about her experiences growing up with “girls’ books” and “boys’ books” in the 50s, and why it eventually drove her out of science classes and dreams of being a NASA scientist. The post… Read more »

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