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 winners were announced. Winners include The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (Best Novel), Miracle Creek by Angie Kim (Best First… Read more »
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 In Q1, Sales Rose 26% at Amazon as It Works to Improve Shipping Times (Publishers Weekly) Workers To Hold Mass Strike On May 1,… Read more »
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 Sheila Connolly, beloved author of a number of cozy mystery series, died April 20, 2020. Fellow writers say she had been fighting cancer. Connolly… Read more »
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 Print Unit Sales Up 2.9% in Early April (Publishers Weekly) As the Pandemic Rages, Reedpop Looks Toward 2021 after canceling BookExpo, BookCon, and Unbound…. Read more »
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 NAME, biographyObituaries and tributes: CNN; The Guardian; NPR; Publisher’s Weekly . Bibliography and Biography: Goodreads; Wikipedia; author’s website Bookish News The 55th annual Nebula Conference has… Read more »
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 Tomie dePaola, beloved and prolific author-illustrator of children’s books, died March 30, 2020, at the age of 85. The cause of death was “complications… Read more »
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 Award-winning playwright Terrance McNally died March 24, 2020, at the age of 81, from complications of COVID-19. He was a lung cancer survivor, and… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff In light of the coronavirus and the impact it is having on all of us around the globe, I’m expanding News & Notes to include virus-related… Read more »
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 Proposed Tennessee Bill Threatens Librarians with Fines or Jail Time (I Love Libraries) Overdrive drops automatic hold checkout, offers “hold redelivery” (Overdrive) The Coronavirus… Read more »
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 Hachette pulls Woody Allen autobiography after criticism from Ronan and Dylan Farrow, his estranged children, and after a walkout by a number of Hachette… Read more »
