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Sceptre has acquired an "astonishing" memoir by Ben Short, an advertising executive who, suffering from depression and a long-term anxiety disorder, fled his high-flying career in London to become a charcoal burner in the Dorset woods.
Scallywag Press has acquired a "wise, warm and witty" debut poetry collection from Scottish poet, performer and storyteller Simon Lamb, to be illustrated by former children’s laureate Chris Riddell.
The Littlest Yak, written by Lu Fraser and illustrated by Kate Hindley (Simon & Schuster Children's Books), has won Book of the Year at the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards 2021.
My second book was due out on 9 July 2020. Then, like a lot of authors, I got an email from my publisher: “I am writing with the inevitable news that we are going to be postponing publication of Don’t Applaud...”
Jenny Todd is launching a new agency, The Literary Office, representing genres she has had success with over her 25-year career.
Rachel Joyce has won the £10,000 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for her “joyously humourous” novel Miss Benson’s Beetle (Doubleday).
Environmental activist Trang Nguyen is releasing her first book for young readers. She and Sorya the sun bear are making rights sales. The post Rights Roundup: Quick Sales for a Vietnamese Conservationist and Her Sun Bear appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The Invisible Host, a 1930 murder mystery by two US journalists, has remarkable parallels with Christie’s most successful workA group of guests are invited to a party but, when they arrive, their mysterious host tells them by broadcast that they will all die by morning. This is not in fact the well-known plot of Agatha…
The children's publisher Kids Can Press has partnered with Nelvana to develop content from Black writers, submissions opening now. The post Canada’s Kids Can Press Opens a ‘Black Write’ Incubator with Nelvana appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
The children's publisher Kids Can Press has partnered with Nelvana to develop content from Black writers, submissions opening now. The post Canada’s Kids Can Press Opens a ‘Black Write’ Incubator with Nelvana appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
