How This Author Went From Hollywood Producer to Thriller Novelist
In this creative context, writers were eager to work on exciting projects, especially if they could stay with the project as it moved toward becoming a film.
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This Publishing House Is Reshaping How We Look At Diversity In Literature
The author, the illustrator, the editor, the publicist. Sometimes, in the world of books (while it’s a world we love to live in) the publisher is forgotten about, but no more!
5 Things Interning At A Literary Agency Taught Me
Interning at a literary agency was like being paid to eat candy all day. Except that I wasn’t paid and the books I read usually weren’t sweet. The internship entailed reading and reviewing manuscript submissions, working the front desk (aka awkwardly offering visitors coffee/tea and then just getting them water), and sending out mail. Over the course of those four months, I read tons of books and it’s likely only one or two of them will ever make it to publication. It was a time of ‘business casual’ clothing and free Nespresso coffees that taught me a lot about how …
5×5: Five Awesome Female Literary Agents
In this edition of the 5×5 series, we asked 5 female literary agents 5 questions. Who better to speak about books than the people that get them published?
George R.R Martin Sues Over Film Rights to ‘The Skin Trade’
Martin, who has been hard at work on the next instalment of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, is suing over the rights to his werewolf novella ‘The Skin Trade’.