Publishers change tune on journalist's novel about a pandemic

Posted on 04/08/2020 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

No one, including this author, would have wished a worldwide epidemic on the world for any reason. But Peter May,...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Thriller

You’re cordially invited to online readings

Posted on 04/08/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Let’s hear it one more time for the wonderful artists who are regrouping and rallying to bring us in-home entertainment...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Charity, coronavirus / COVID-19, Poetry, The New York Times

Why a cookbook and a crisis novel are the perfect books for this moment

Posted on 04/07/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

It’s the best of times and the worst of times for some authors, in terms of the topics and themes...

Categories: Author Interview

Tagged As: Author interview, coronavirus / COVID-19, Nonfiction, NPR, Women in literature

French authors under fire for posting about their second homes

Posted on 04/07/2020 at 08:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Two acclaimed French authors have found themselves in eau chaud recently thanks to their posts about quarantine life. Leïla Slimani...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The Guardian

Margaret Atwood launches video series to support authors

Posted on 04/06/2020 at 10:16 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Margaret Atwood, famous for (among many things) her dystopian fiction, has entered the fight to support authors during the coronavirus...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, The New York Times, Women in literature

Writing gurus: Keep your chin up

Posted on 04/03/2020 at 10:32 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many writers are finding themselves in a cruel conundrum: they have more time on their hands and more readers clamoring...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Jane Friedman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Motivational

Harry Potter and the fight against bored quarantined kids

Posted on 04/02/2020 at 10:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Another celebrity heavyweight is lending a hand in the boredom battle felt by kids across the world. J.K. Rowling has...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Children's literature, coronavirus / COVID-19, Libraries, Literary Hub

Quarantine reading from throughout history

Posted on 03/31/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Many of us use books as an escape from reality, so for them, “plague reading” would simply mean fiction they...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Book club, Book lists, coronavirus / COVID-19, History, Literature in translation, The Guardian

Literary award administrators decide to share the prize money

Posted on 03/30/2020 at 08:31 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The administrators of a literary prize have chosen one winner, but they’re splitting the prize money among the entire shortlist...

Categories: Today in Books

Tagged As: Awards, coronavirus / COVID-19, Literature in translation, The Guardian

Book marketing in the time of COVID-19

Posted on 03/27/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Marketing types across industries are struggling to balance what’s appropriate during a global crisis and the, well, need to keep...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: coronavirus / COVID-19, Marketing