Category: News & Notes

News & Notes – 9/25/2021

News & Notes – 9/25/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Banned Books Week begins September 26! Jason Reynolds is this year’s honorary chair. There are several events occuring on Twitter or live on Facebook;… Read more »

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News & Notes – 8/21/2021

News & Notes – 8/21/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff. Bookish News Erotic Romance Author Accused of Plagiarizing Fanfiction (The Mary Sue) Specifically, Romilly King is accused of plagiarizing a Castiel fanfic found on AO3. The… Read more »

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News & Notes – 7/03/2021

News & Notes – 7/03/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Shirley Jackson Awards nominees announced. The awards are for “outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic” in a… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/19/2021

News & Notes – 6/19/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News The Locus Awards announced their top 10 finalists for 2021. The winners will be announced June 26, 2021. SFWA announced this year’s Nebula Award… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/29/2021

News & Notes – 5/29/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Literary Losses Eric Carle, beloved children’s author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and over 70 other titles, has died at the age of 91. Carle got… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/22/2021

News & Notes – 5/22/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Booksellers to CDC: In My Store, You Mask Up (Publishers Weekly) Indian authors speak out over [PRH India’s] plan to reissue Narendra Modi exam… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/08/2021

News & Notes – 5/08/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Book of The Little Prince author’s love letters marks end of feud between heirs (The Guardian) 3 Romance Novels Written By Stacey Abrams Will… Read more »

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News & Notes – 5/01/2021

News & Notes – 5/01/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News Writers Orgs Form #DisneyMustPay Joint Task Force to demand that Disney honor author contracts and pay authors the royalties they are owed for books… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/17/2021

News & Notes – 4/17/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Independent Bookstore Day – April 24 Independent Bookstore Day is next Saturday, Apr. 24, 2021. If you’re comfortable going into shops, and your local indie bookstore… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/03/2021

News & Notes – 4/03/2021

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Bookish News HarperCollins to Acquire HMH Trade. (Publishers Weekly) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are the publishers of Tolkien’s works and many other well-known books and franchises (The… Read more »

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