Earlier this year, Vulture reported on the curious case of paranormal-romance author Sherrilyn Kenyon, who claimed that "her ex and one of her former assistants hatched a ‘Shakespearean plot' to murder her by poison." That claim led to a $20 million lawsuit in which Kenyon alleged that her...

You may not even realize that your book contract could be canceled if you're accused of misconduct-or just cause drama

As the ongoing trade war between the United States and China rumbled on early this year, some interesting book industry statistics were coming out of the People's Republic. In January, OpenBook, the Beijing-based industry data monitor, announced that retail sales in China had jumped 11.3% to...

SAN FRANCISCO - In George Orwell's "1984," the classics of literature are rewritten into Newspeak, a revision and reduction of the language meant to make bad thoughts literally unthinkable. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words," one true believer exults.

‘I was often accused of having an overactive imagination as a child and I was an avid reader. I used to fib to my mum, saying I was going out to play with the other kids and actually having a book in my pocket. I'd built a den on the waste ground at the far end of the housing estate where I grew...

Gunfights are chaos events. They make no sense, can never make sense. They are over in seconds. The men who fight them do so guided only by instincts that may or may not reflect training and experience. What happens-no matter how unlikely-happens, without recourse to do-overs, odds and the utter...