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2014 Halloween Book Festival – Deadline Looms

The 2014 Halloween Book Festival deadline for entries arrives Oct. 25 for its annual program honoring the best books of the season. The Halloween Book Festival (www.halloweenbookfestival.com) will consider works in science fiction, horror, general fiction,...

2014 Southern California Book Festival – Final Entry Deadline

The entry deadline for the 2014 Southern California Book Festival arrives Oct. 25 for the annual competition honoring the best books of the fall. The Southern California Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...

2014 New England Book Festival Call for Entries

The 2014 New England Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring the best books of the holiday season. The competition will accept entries in non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, young adult, how-to,...

Authorlink Welcomes Random House Author as New Columnist-2014

Authorlink proudly announces that Alexandra Monir, young author and recording artist, has joined us as a regular “Learn to Write” columnist, beginning with our October edition. Just type her name into the Authorlink search box on any page, or checkout the Learn to...

Barnes & Noble Picks Best Books by Big Authors This Fall-2014

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the nation’s largest retail bookseller and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the list of must-have books for the Fall and fast-approaching Holiday season. This year’s list...

Pen Names 2014 Bingham Finalists

Last night, on the eve of the 2014 Literary Awards Ceremony, finalists for the 2014 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction gathered in a packed East Village bar to read aloud from their nominated works. You can listen to an audio recording of each reading...

Financial Times Picks Shortlist for Business Book Award–2014

The Financial Times and McKinsey & Company today publish the shortlist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Now in its tenth year, the award is an essential calendar fixture for authors and the global business community alike...

Survey says Europeans Are Creative-2014

A majority of people in Germany, France and Britain feel they are creative. According to a recent TNS Emnid survey commissioned by the international media company Bertelsmann, 65 percent of French people, 70 percent of Germans and 72 percent of Britons describe...

PW Reports Bookstore Sales Fall July 2014

Bookstore sales fell 5.1% to $707 million in July, according to a Publishers Weekly report based on data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Sales were at $745 million in July 2013. The decline was somewhat less than in most months of the year, and sales through July...

2015 Paris Book Festival Call for Entries

The 2015 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2015 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, compilations/anthologies, young...