Authors | Digital Tom Hanks Types a Book of Short Stories By Deborah Jensen on Nov. 4, 2014 - 1:40 PM Given his affinity for typewriters and his collection of favorite models, including a Hermes 2000, a 1930s Remington, and a midcentury Royal, we imagine Tom Hanks tapped out first drafts for the book he just sold to Alfred A. Knop ...
Authors | Book Biz Celebrating Picture Books! By Deborah Jensen on Nov. 3, 2014 - 5:05 PM We all have cherished picture books, the ones read to us, the ones we read to others: Madeline, Green Eggs and Ham, This is Not My Hat, The Hungry Caterpillar, The Lion & the Mouse, Good Dog, Carl… November is Picture Book ...
Authors PW names the 100 best books of 2014 By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 31, 2014 - 7:15 AM Publishers Weekly today released its list of the 100 Best Books of 2014, for the first time including three translations among its top 10 books, which were written by Hassam Blasim, Elena Ferrante, Marlon James, Lorrie Moore, Jose ...
Authors Your Name in Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, or Ken Follett’s Book By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 29, 2014 - 6:00 PM Just like Will Ferrell’s character in “Stranger Than Fiction,” you might find “yourself”—or your namesake, your avatar—spinning through a tale told by Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Ken Follett, Hanif Ku ...
Authors | Bookselling Anna Todd’s ‘After’ And ‘Harry Styles’ Come to Print And Film By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 24, 2014 - 1:30 PM Anna Todd, the first-time author whose online fan fiction series After became a Wattpad sensation, has had a big month. Publishing one chapter at a time, Todd racked up 1 billion reads online and gained avid fans worldwide. Last w ...
Comic Books DMC No. 1 Arrives: Biff! Boff! Boom! By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 22, 2014 - 5:50 PM Hip-hop pioneer Darryl McDaniels, a founding member of Run-DMC, who turned to comics for courage as a kid facing bullies in Hollis, Queens, has created a new superhero who takes the stage in DMC No. 1, the first in a new series of ...
Authors Alan Cumming Reveals the Man Behind the “Cheery Chappy” By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 17, 2014 - 2:25 PM The Good Wife star and Broadway luminary Alan Cumming has written a “suspenseful, deeply moving, and wickedly funny” memoir, Not My Father’s Son. The book is the #1 pick for November on ABA’s Indie Next list. Cumming r ...
Authors | Publishing Those Were the Days: Norman Lear’s Memoir Pubs Today By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 14, 2014 - 2:30 PM “This is, flat out, one of the best Hollywood memoirs ever written… An absolute treasure,” raves Booklist in a starred review of Norman Lear’s memoir, Even This I Get to Experience. The creator of such iconic and u ...
View Post Authors | Awards Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Prize For Peace By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 10, 2014 - 3:15 PM Malala Yousafzai, 17-year-old advocate for girls’ education worldwide and author of the bestseller I Am Malala, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The youngest recipient of the prize since its inception in 1901, she was quo ...
Authors | Book Biz | Publishing ‘How Now,’ Says Author Dov Seidman to Chobani By Deborah Jensen on Oct. 9, 2014 - 5:35 PM It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game. We school our kids in this from the first soccer kick on. Bestselling author and management guru Dov Seidman built a brand around his hit 2011 book, How: Why How We ...