More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows Apr 30 2024 Report commissioned by HarperCollins shows that uptake in YA fiction in older readers... Read more »
C.J. Sansom passes away at 71 May 01 2024 British author Christopher John Sansom, author of the Shardlake series of crime novels under the pen name C.J. Sansom, died April 27, the... Read more »
IBPA rebrands annual book award, adds DEI categories May 01 2024 At Publishing University 2024, held in Denver, the Independent Book Publishers Association announced that the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book Awards, which... Read more »
Innovators share ‘disruptive’ ideas at PubU 2024 May 02 2024 At the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Publishing University 2024 in Denver, whose theme was “Rise and Disrupt!,” an April 27 roundtable addressed... Read more »
Paul Auster dies at 77 May 01 2024 Paul Auster, the prolific novelist, memoirist and screenwriter who rose to fame in the 1980s with his postmodern reanimation of the noir novel and... Read more »
Children’s Publishers embrace the Taylor Swift factor Apr 25 2024 Even casual observers of popular culture know all too well that Taylor Swift has reached new heights of icon status in the... Read more »
Poetry Foundation offers aid to SPD presses as the search for new homes continues Apr 26 2024 With little hope that the leadership of Small Press Distribution will emerge to help sort... Read more »
A few weeks ago, I decided to walk from London Bridge, up through Soho, to Marylebone, to catch a train home to the West Midlands. It was late-ish on a Friday afternoon, early spring... Read more »
CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012. His... Read more »