Stephanie Wolfe Murray, publisher – obituary
telegraph.co.uk – Wednesday August 30, 2017
Stephanie Wolfe Murray, who has died aged 76, co-founded the influential Scottish publisher Canongate Books and kept it afloat through regular financial crises for some 25 years.
Though Scottish publishing had a distinguished history in the 19th century, by the early 1970s there were only really two publishers which could accurately be called Scottish: Chambers, which primarily produced dictionaries, and Bartholomew, the mapmakers.
Howard Kaminsky, Publisher With a Best-Seller Sense, Dies at 77
nytimes.com – Wednesday August 30, 2017
Howard Kaminsky, who honed his instincts for publishing commercially successful books at scrappy Warner Books and parlayed that sense into high-level positions at Random House and Hearst, died on Saturday in Manhattan. Mr. Kaminsky, whose authors included Richard M. Nixon and Donald J. Trump, was 77.
How to market and promote your books
By Jeffrey Sussman
President, Jeffrey Sussman, Inc.
firstwriter.com – Wednesday August 30, 2017
Every author and every publisher wants to sell as many books as possible. Each may try a variety of tactics as well as resort to conventional means of publicity, but results often fall short of expectations. It is one reason why publishers make significant profits from only a small fraction of the books they publish. And the vast numbers of authors cannot count on royalties to support themselves. What to do?
Here are several examples that have helped publishers increase the quantity of sales and have even helped self-published authors make money from their books.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday August 29, 2017
Handles: Fiction; Nonfiction
Markets: Adult; Children's; Youth
Accepts queries from both established and emerging authors. See agent profiles on website and select specific agent to query. Send queries by email only. See website for full guidelines.
firstwriter.magazine Issue 31: Summer 2017
firstwriter.com – Monday August 28, 2017
firstwriter.com has just announced the launch of the penultimate issue of its long-running literary journal, firstwriter.magazine.
firstwriter.magazine has been published twice a year since 2002, making it probably one of the longest-running online journals on the internet. This 31st issue features the usual mix of quality fiction and poetry from around the world, plus the first chance to see not just the winning story from the Fifteenth International Poetry Competition, but also all ten Special Commendations. You can view the magazine by clicking here.
Bernard MacLaverty: ‘Just try to write. You can do it better tomorrow’
theguardian.com – Saturday August 26, 2017
The novelist on the privilege of working from home, the benefits of eavesdropping and why he and his grandson love to play ‘throwing writers at the radiator’.
YA Publisher Allegedly Tricked Best Sellers List In Scheme To Sell The Movie Rights
cinemablend.com – Friday August 25, 2017
YA novels are still big business in the publishing world, but a large part of the reason for that is the frequency with which many of them get adapted as films. It seems one new book may have tried to game the system specifically to get the movie made.This week a book almost nobody had heard of, and even fewer had read, called Handbook for Mortals, found itself atop the New York Times Best Sellers list. Now, it seems the publisher may have used questionable means to get on the list in order to secure funding for the movie version of the book.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday August 24, 2017
Handles: Fiction; Nonfiction
Areas: Crime; Culture; Fantasy; Humour; Romance; Sci-Fi
Markets: Adult; Children's; Youth
Treatments: Contemporary; Literary; Popular
See website for individual agent interests and submission methods, and query one agent only, using online submission system.
Abridged 0 – 51 Wormwood: Submission Call
firstwriter.com – Wednesday August 23, 2017
What if the end does not begin somewhere above our heads, but festers in the lives of individuals. What if it will not drop down from the sky but seep out slowly from the streams that flow under our senses. What if it isn’t colossal, overwhelming and thundering, but microscopic, sneaking and silent. What if we are deafened not by a distant bang but a cancer worming deep in our cells. What if it won’t be thrown at us, in our ignorance, from far far away, but is carried around inside us in tiny electric pieces. What if it is not of some mythological or hypothetical future but of the right now. Not the threat of a coming instant but a present dragging catastrophe.
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Wednesday August 23, 2017
Publishes: Fiction; Poetry;
Areas include: Gothic; Literature;
Markets: Adult; Professional; Youth;
Preferred styles: Contemporary; Cynical; Dark; Experimental; In-depth; Literary; Serious
A literary magazine featuring dark, psychological fiction, poetry, and art. Started in 2017, we are a nonprofit publication. Our goal is to share literature that raises awareness of and expresses psychological issues and feelings of displacement through the literary gothic. We're open to a variety of styles, including writing that is minimalistic or that has elements of fantasy or horror, so long as it fits within our theme.
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