Posted on September 8, 2023 at 4:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The shortlist for the 2023 BBC National Short Story Award has been revealed. The themes of these tales are decidedly...

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Posted on December 13, 2022 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The best annual literary award revealed its winner last week (and we missed it!). The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for the Oddest...

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Posted on October 7, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Peter Robinson, best known for his Inspector Banks crime novels, has died. The seventy-two-year-old writer's publisher announced today that...

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Posted on August 31, 2022 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Who is the Queen of Crime? If you ask Agatha Christie's literary estate, it is she — and only she....

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Posted on June 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Close the book on the Costa Awards. Officials with Costa Coffee, which sponsored the fifty-year-old prize, announced today on social...

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Posted on May 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A 2020 biography of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is being translated into English for the first time — and updated....

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Posted on January 26, 2022 at 12:57 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Understanding all of the legal parts of an option agreement is necessary. But how do you get your book to...

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Posted on January 12, 2022 at 11:55 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

A beloved children's author is making a comeback — sort of. The Bookseller reports that Jacqueline Wilson will bring back...

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Posted on January 4, 2022 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The ebook licensing battle between traditional publishers and libraries seems to currently be favoring the former. The Bookseller reports that...

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Posted on October 12, 2021 at 1:07 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija has been chosen as this year’s International Writer of Courage. The award goes to a writer...

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