The 2014 San Francisco Book Festival will hold its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring on Saturday, May 17 at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. The event includes a daytime publishing seminar and book expo, plus evening awards. The 2014 San Francisco...
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2014 New England Book Festival Call for Entries – 2014
The 2014 New England Book Festival's 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,...
Government Press Office Muzzles Journalists, Report Says
INDIANAPOLIS/ 3/19/14 – On the eve of Sunshine Week 2014, the Society of Professional Journalists has released the results from two surveys about journalists’ experience with obtaining public information. The studies were led by Dr. Carolyn S. Carlson...
Adichie’s ‘Americanah’ Wins National Book Critics Award
Adichie's 'Americanah' Wins National Book Critics Award March 19, 2014-- The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose previous works include "Half of a Yellow Sun," "The Thing Around Your Neck" and "Purple...
Allen C. Guelzo Wins $50,000 Military History Book Prize – 2014
Historian and professor Allen C. Guelzo is the winner of the inaugural Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History, which carries a purse of $50,000. Guelzo won the prize for his book GETTYSBURG: The Last Invasion which was released in hardcover by A.A. Knopf in...
Barnes & Noble Self-Publishing Goes International – 2014
NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), one of the world’s largest booksellers and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that NOOK Press (www.nookpress.com), Barnes &...
Flyover Lives by Diane Johnson
Flyover Lives Diane Johnson ISBN: 978-0-670-01640-2 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a model for writers who seek to produce . . . their family’s history." Flyover Lives is the result of Diane Johnson’s challenge by her French...
New York Celebrates Andy Warhol Biography HOLY TERROR – 2014
~~On March 11, 2014, Vintage Books will release a new edition of Bob Colacello’s landmark intimate biography HOLY TERROR: Andy Warhol Close Up. Originally published in 1990—three years after the artist’s death at age fifty-eight—HOLY TERROR has...
Harlequin launches Romance Publisher Site and App- 2014
Mills & Boon, the UK’s most successful publisher of romantic fiction, is continuing to shape its UK business for a digital future with the launch of an innovative, direct-to-consumer web platform and an eReading app for iPhone and iPad. The platform and the...
2014 New York Book Festival Call for Entries
The 2014 New York Book Festival will hold its its annual competition honoring books worthy of further attention from the world publishing capital on June 20-21 in Manhattan. The 2014 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent...
