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News round-up, June 2013

Lee — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:36:00 +0000

Amazon licenses fan fiction ebooks George RR Martin hates fan fiction, Anne Rice has banned it, Ursula K Le Guin calls it "an invasion". But a host of authors have signed up to a new programme from Amazon, which encourages any fan who fancies it to write fiction inspired by their worlds, and sell it [...]

Malorie Blackman champions the 2013 Summer Reading Challenge

Lee — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:52:37 +0000

Malorie Blackman, alongside her Children’s Laureate predecessors Julia Donaldson, Michael Rosen and Jacqueline Wilson, football star Frank Lampard and other popular children’s authors and illustrators including Charlie Higson, Liz Pichon, Chris Riddell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Cressida Cowell and Justin Somper line-up as Champions of The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge with libraries, in a major [...]

2013 Book Illustration Competition shortlist announced

Lee — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:34:32 +0000

Six illustrators have been chosen from over 500 entrants to be shortlisted for the third annual Book Illustration Competition, a collaboration between the House of Illustration and The Folio Society. The Book Illustration Competition invited entrants to submit three illustrations and a binding design for Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. The winner will receive [...]

Publisher uses Stephen King’s new novel to support UK bookshops

Lee — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:19:13 +0000

Best-selling author Stephen King returns June 7th with Joyland, a mystery novel set in an amusement park in the 1970s, published by Hard Case Crime, an imprint of Titan Books. Joyland will be published in original paperback and will only be available in print edition, which is in keeping with the author’s request, made in [...]

Round-up: AA Milne biopic, first edition auction and King print-only

Lee — Wed, 29 May 2013 07:11:00 +0000

AA Milne film will tell story behind Winnie The Pooh A new film, Goodbye Christopher Robin, will explore the relationship behind AA Milne and his son which inspired the creation of Winnie The Pooh. A biopic film about the life of AA Milne is in the works, revealing details of his relationship with the son [...]