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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
News & Notes – 3/27/2021
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 Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, died March 8 at the age of 91. Juster, an architect, began the classic children’s novel while… Read more »
News & Notes – 2/13/2021
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 2020 Edgar Award nominees were announced. The winners will be named in April. The ALA announced its 2021 Youth Media Awards, including the… Read more »
News & Notes – January 23, 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 James Gunn, science fiction author, editor, and SFWA Grand Master, died on December 23, 2020 at the age of 97. Gunn wrote several novels… Read more »
News & Notes – December 19, 2020
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 Notable Literary Deaths in 2020: So many literary figures have died this year, from Christopher Tolkien in January to John Le Carré just last… Read more »