Young readers’ access is limited not only by local challenges but also by ‘soft censorship,’ asserts PEN America’s new report—and ‘diverse books’ may be the first to be yanked. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson The US Will Be ‘Majority Minority’ By 2044 Reporting “a persistent pattern of attempts to remove certain books from public schools… Read More
Unbound's Jason Cooper: 'Too Many Titles in a Small Space'
‘The need for extreme success is now a requirement rather than a boon,’ says the UK’s Jason Cooper in the run-up to Frankfurt’s conference on The Markets. Read More
Violist Stephanie Griffin: The Momentum Of Four Momenta
Although she calls it ‘a violist’s Book of Job,’ founding and leading the Momenta Quartet is a longtime labor of love for Stephanie Griffin, as she tells us in Music for Writers. Read More
Southeast Asia’s Rising Publishing World: An Interview With Kenneth Quek
Under-translated and overly vulnerable to censorship, the publishing communities of Southeast Asia nevertheless will soon be ‘making waves,’ according to one of Singapore’s industry leaders. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘Incredible Strides’ As we look toward Frankfurt Book Fair next month and the new Singapore StoryDrive Asia event in November, many in the industry are looking to update… Read More
Bowker: 727,000 US Self-Published ISBNs Registered in 2015
The US ISBN agency, Bowker, reports a 21-percent increase in self-published ISBNs—not titles—from 2014 to 2015: another indication of quickly rising interest in indie publishing. Read More
Authors and the Demand for Warnings: Writing in a Trigger-Happy World
How can we ask authors to ply the range and radiance of human experience if they’re expected to provide trigger warnings? – Porter Anderson Read More
David Hockney Speaks at Frankfurt Book Fair’s Opening News Conference
Praising the British artist’s ‘openness to new media and his application of digital techniques,’ Frankfurt’s Juergen Boos announces Hockney’s keynote comments on October 18. Read More
Sisters in Crime on Diversity: Multiculturalism, They Wrote
A writers’ support organization with 50 chapters in the US and Canada looks inward to discover who they are. They’re exploring the difficult mystery of diversity in today’s publishing industry. Read More
Trading in Inkshares: Adam Gomolin’s Hollywood Edge
Now the CEO of crowdfunding platform Inkshares, Gomolin talks about the company’s pivot to focus on bringing books to Hollywood. Read More
The Author and His Translator: Working Together Is All the ‘Rage’
‘Translators are wonderful readers,’ says Poland’s top-selling author, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, whose ‘Rage’ is out in English from AmazonCrossing. Read More