Berlin’s InterKontinental agency ends its first year ready to accelerate rights sales with a new African literature festival in April: Writing in Migration. Read More
Selling African Rights Into Germany
Trends in Children’s Books 2018
What will kids be reading in 2018? Scholastic editors issue five predictions about what children’s book trends will be popular and successful next year. Read More
An International Rights Roundup
A couple of auspicious debuts are included in our latest rights update, as well as historical fiction, a children’s entry, serial work and noir. Read More
Singapore: StoryDrive Asia 2017
Frankfurter Buchmesse’s StoryDrive Asia conference in Singapore highlighted one of the most promising regions, Southeast Asia’s emerging publishing scene. Read More
The Baileys Women’s Prize Shortlist: ‘A Wonderful Liberation’
‘The constraint is a liberation,’ says film producer Tessa Ross, whose leadership of the Baileys judges for 2017 honors international women authors. Read More
How Thought Catalog Uses Social Media Data To Drive Book Publishing
Chris Lavergne, publisher of Thought Catalog Books, knows what his social-savvy data is saying: Create ‘an experience that isn’t efficient.’ Read More
Great Expectations vs. Skepticism
How hard do you find it is for others to see you as the writer you are? How fashionable is it for us all to wax skeptical? Read More
Patricia Cornwell Tracks the Ripper: Powered by 'Kindle in Motion'
‘I needed somebody who could publish a work of this magnitude,’ says Patricia Cornwell of her new nonfiction work from Amazon Publishing. Read More
At London Book Fair, Bonnier's Type & Tell Platform Lets Authors Keep 100 Percent of Royalties
Type & Tell, Bonnier’s new self-publishing platform, has been quietly tested in Sweden since September 2015. It launches in English at London Book Fair. Read More
An Author and Reporter Boards Amtrak for a Continent-Wide Residency
‘For a long stretch of this country, there’s no wi-fi.’ And for a busy AP reporter who’d won a berth as an Amtrak Residency writer, off-grid was perfect. Read More