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...
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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 The Great Southeast Book Festival will consider published and unpublished works in fiction, non-fiction,...
Bertelsmann Sells Small Portion of Penguin Random House
Today, the international media company Bertelsmann has launched an accelerated bookbuilding offering to institutional investors of up to two million ordinary shares of RTL Group, which owns Penguin Random House. The offer is the result of not exercising an...
Washington Post closes sale to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos formally took over as the owner of The Washington Post on Tuesday, officially ending 80 years of local control of the newspaper by the Graham family. Bezos’ $250 million purchase was completed as expected...
