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Oxford Dictionaries: "Climate emergency" is the word of the year

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 04:02 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The next word of the year from a dictionary is along the same theme as the previous one. Oxford Dictionaries...

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 02:41 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No one wants to run afoul of copyright law — and everyone wants to protect their hard-earned intellectual property if...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing, The Passive Voice

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 02:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The first recipients of the National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal during Donald Trump’s presidency will officially receive...

Tagged As: Awards, Politics

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 12:30 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A Warning by Anonymous, who claims to be an insider in the Trump administration, notched some impressive early sales numbers....

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book reviews, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 10:52 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Keeping your reader engaged and interested in your story doesn’t mean rattling off events at an auctioneer’s speed. C.S. Lakin...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: C.S. Lakin / Live Write Thrive, Joanna Penn, Plot / narrative, Writing advice

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction and its purse of £50,000 (about $64,600) have gone to a history of Jack...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, Book lists

Posted on 11/20/2019 at 08:21 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The New York Public Library has just purchased over 150 Virginia Woolf-related items to add to its Berg Collection of...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Classic literature, Literary tourism, Memorabilia, Women in literature

Posted on 11/19/2019 at 04:02 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s not just the classic rockers who are producing books. Pop star Rihanna released a new, extremely photo-heavy (and probably...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book reviews, Pop culture, The New York Times

Posted on 11/19/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Knowing that you should examine competing titles and actually tackling the task are, of course, two entirely different beasts. Penny...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Marketing, The business of writing

Posted on 11/19/2019 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A frustration among many bookworms is picking up a book by an author, loving it ... and having all their...

Tagged As: Book lists, Reader stories