The National Book Foundation, which celebrates great writing, has announced its 2013 finalists. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on November 20 in New York. Fiction Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers, Scribner/Simon & Schuster Jhumpa Lahiri, The...
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We Band of Angels Paperback Due to Release in October 2013
Random House this month [October 2013] is releasing the paperback publication of WE BAND OF ANGELS (Random House, on sale 10/29), now with an all-new chapter about the late Mildred Dalton Manning, the last Angel of Bataan. In its 1999 hardcover publication, WE BAND OF...
2014 San Francisco Book Festival Call for Entries
2014 San Francisco Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring the best books of the spring. The event includes a daytime publishing seminar and book expo, plus evening awards. The 2014 San Francisco Book Festival will consider...
Megan Twohey wins October Sidney Award for exposing underground U.S. market for adopted children
NEW YORK – Megan Twohey wins the October Sidney Award for her five-part series exposing a subculture where parents go online to give their adopted children away to strangers with no oversight from social workers or the courts. Children may find themselves...
2014 Paris Book Festival Call for Entries
The 2014 Paris Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual awards honoring the best of international publishing. The 2014 Paris Book Festival will consider non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children's books, compilations/anthologies,...
2014 New York Book Festival Deadline
The 2014 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual competition honoring books worthy of further attention from the world publishing capital. The 2014 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher...
Second Watch by J. A. Jance
Second Watch J. A. Jance HarperCollins Publishers September 10, 2013 368 pages ISBN: 978-0-06-213467-7 Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . .a fitting tribute. . ." J P Beaumont has been a Seattle police detective for a long time....
Stanford’s Saroyan Literary Prize Call for Entries
Nominations are now being accepted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given biennially for works of fiction and nonfiction. Cosponsored by the Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, the...
Simon & Schuster Sites Adopt New Design for All Platforms
Simon & Schuster Digital is pleased to announce that, with the recent launch of newly redesigned home pages, it has entered the final phase of a rolling release that updates Simon & Schuster’s domestic and international websites in the United States,...
2014 Great Southeast Book Festival – Call for Entries
The 2014 Great Southeast Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual competition honoring the best books of the late winter/spring. The Great Southeast Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
