Category: News & Notes

News & Notes – 6/02/2018

News & Notes – 6/02/2018

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 2017 Nebula Award winners were announced in May. Peter S. Beagle was honored as a Grand Master. N.K. Jemison’s The Stone Sky won Best Novel; Best… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/19/2018

News & Notes – 5/19/2018

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 Romantic Times is closing up shop. Also known as RT Book Reviews, the organization has sponsored the RT Booklovers Convention for many years. The email… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/12/2018

News & Notes – 5/12/2018

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 2018 Locus Awards Finalists were announced on April 30.  The Locus Awards recognize excellence in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Check out… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/28/2018

News & Notes – 4/28/2018

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 In the #MeToo Moment, Publishers Turn to Morality Clauses (Publishers Weekly) University Presses Are Not In Crisis, and other news from the worlds of… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/14/2018

News & Notes – 4/14/2018

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 Foyles’ flagship building ‘sold for £45m’ (The Bookseller) The iconic flagship bookstore, located at 107 Charing Cross Road (where it moved in 2014,… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/07/2017

News & Notes – 4/07/2017

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 National Library Week begins today. (ALA) The Hugo Awards nominees have been announced. Book Riot has the full list, plus links to buy or read… Read more »

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News & Notes – 3/10/2017

News & Notes – 3/10/2017

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 ‘It Just Felt Very Wrong’: Sherman Alexie’s Accusers Go On The Record (NPR) In a follow-up report, Alexie has declined the Carnegie medal… Read more »

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News & Notes – 3/03/2018

News & Notes – 3/03/2018

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 2018 Nebula Awards nominees have been named, and Book Riot has links to where to read the shorter works online. Author Sherman… Read more »

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News & Notes – 2/17/2018

News & Notes – 2/17/2018

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 Trump Renews Bid to Eliminate Library Funding, NEA, and NEH (Publishers Weekly) The budget put forward by the White House this week calls for large… Read more »

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News & Notes – 2/10/2018

News & Notes – 2/10/2018

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 Plagiarism software pins down new source for Shakespeare’s plays—or, to be more precise, one probably additional source (The Guardian) OED’s new words include… Read more »

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