The successful growth of new British publisher Head of Zeus shows how an international approach to publishing can put a business in a strong position through challenging the traditional approach to publishing markets. Read more
Ian Stewart, the "callous" and "wicked" man who drugged and murdered his fiancee, Helen Bailey, before dumping her body in a cesspit to get his hands on her fortune, has been sentenced to at least 34 years in prison. Read more
'Coming from the tech arena is a fairly hostile view of traditional publishing, which assumes that it is dead and will shortly be totally replaced by indie publishing. But is this really what is happening at present?
Coming from the tech arena is a fairly hostile view of traditional publishing, which assumes that it is dead and will shortly be totally replaced by indie publishing. But is this really what is happening at present? It doesn't seem so clear-cut. Read more
PW recently talked with a few M.F.A. grads and faculty members to ask them about any cautionary tales they might have. Based on their answers, here are five pieces of advice for those starting or thinking about an M.F.A.
When we first got Google's virtual reality headset at my house, called the Google Daydream, I can't say I was too excited. But then I tried it. I downloaded BBC's The Turning Forest, grabbed the controller, and put on the headset. A man who sounded vaguely like Martin Freeman narrated a fairytale-like story that took place in a beautiful digital forest. Read more
There are not many literary genres as loved and loathed as romance fiction. For all its millions of female readers for hundreds of years, it has been dismissed as sentimental, sappy and trashy, as well as mad, bad and dangerous to read. Read more
The great Golden Age of science fiction in the 1940s and 50s was perhaps the last time where there was a noticeable gap between science fiction and science fact. Since then, the pace of innovation has accelerated to the point today when we hardly have the time to think of a new invention before it is launched and discounted on Amazon. Read more
'As for ‘Write what you know,' I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it's a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it's my duty to testify about them.'
"Did this guy or did he not kill his wife?"
‘I realize how decadent writing a novel is. You really own this world, you can do whatever you want to it. You can go inside people's minds. Read more