World of the Written Word

I can't believe I have never blundered over this before, but though it is old news, these are such interesting statistics that they bear...

Owned by Dutch conglomerate VNU, Nielson surged into the book data business in January 2001, following the success of Nielson SoundScan , w...

When the latest New Zealand Society of Authors newsletter arrived in my inbox (Friday, 27 June), I was delighted to see that the editor now...

Are American editors getting younger? Heather Vogel Frederick , author of the warmly received pre-teen series The Mother-Daughter Book Club...

Another whisper from Spy Mouse is that US librarians are giving an enthusiastic recommendation to Mister Pip by Booker shortlisted author ...

Believe it or not, a man who was poet laureate of the United States, 2001-2003, is inspired by . . . Warner Bros. cartoons. Bugs There he le...

Talking about debuts and warm fuzzies, the New York Times has the story of how a privately published book about a grieving father meeting G...

Spy Mouse reminds me that one of the warm and fuzzy stories of London publishing is the remarkable success of Tan Twan Eng 's debut nov...

To see/hear the complete version of this amusing and inspirational chat, go to http://harvardmagazine.com/go/jkrowling.html *The Fringe Be...

On a casual check of the amazon.com page for Deadly Shoals , the fourth in the Wiki Coffin mystery series, I was intrigued to note that a re...