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 2023 World Fantasy Awards finalists were announced! (Locus Magazine)
- And the 2023 Hugo Award finalists were announced (along with the finalists for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book.)
- Judge Finds Revived Amazon E-book Monopoly Suit Should Proceed (Publishers Weekly)
- Booksellers, Industry Groups File Suit to Block Texas Book Rating Law (Publishers Weekly)
- Bidding for Simon & Schuster Draws to a Close (New York Times) (Note: NYT limits the number of free articles you can read in a month.)
- San Diego Comic Con may have missed its celebrity actors and screenwriters due to the Hollywood strikes, but there was plenty for kids to enjoy. (Publishers Weekly) And cartoonists got their day in the sun, too.
- HarperCollins to Shutter Inkyard Press, Lay Off Staff (Publishers Weekly) The move comes after layoffs at Penguin Random House.
Worth Reading/Viewing
- What’s It Like To Be a Disabled Writer? (Alice Nuttall, Book Riot)
- Paperback or hardcover? Used or new? Let’s talk about our book habits: Michael Dirda on his 29 (flexible) rules for reading. (Washington Post) (Sorry; this one is behind a paywall if you have used up your free articles for the month.)
- How the National Braille Press Brings Books to Blind Readers (Publishers Weekly)
- ‘It’s exciting, it’s powerful’: how translated fiction captured a new generation of readers (The Guardian)
For Writers & Bloggers
- 4theWords turns achieving your daily word count into a game. It looks like fun!
Books, Movies, and TV
- Read W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring (Literary Hub)
Bookish Quote
Lydia
That National Braille Press article was so hopeful!
Nicole @ BookWyrmKnits
Good quote this week! If you decide to use 4thwords I hope it helps! I know my own writing has been super stalled out lately. Too much else to focus on.
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