31 December 2012 - What's new
31 December 2012
- We've just revised our list of International Book Fairs, which now includes the major fairs for 2013 and is a useful summary. Many of them are restricted to the book trade, but some have authors' programmes and literary festivals and they can be a good way of finding out what is happening in the book world in your country.
- 'December ended with a piece of news combining the two big news stories of the year - the continued rise of the ereader market and the efforts of Pearson to work out a future for itself. Pearson announced that it had moved into the ereader market by taking a 5% stake in Barnes & Noble's new digital books and college bookstore unit for $89.5m (£55m). News Review on how the year ended with a surprise.
- If you want editorial input from our professional editors, have a look at our 18 Services, especially our Editor's Report, Submission Critique and Children's Services. Also available is Copy editing and Manuscript Polishing, for authors who are not native English speakers and Manuscript Typing. and our latest addition, Blurb-writing.
- 'I first became aware of my need for this twice-lived life at the age of 12 during my time at boarding school in Hertfordshire. I was dawdling back across the lovely hayfield that separated the tennis courts from the garden of the main school house when I was stopped in my tracks by the beauty of the June light on the field. I stood very still...' Rose Tremain on becoming a writer in the Sunday Telegraph.
- Why do non-fiction books need an index? In The Ins and Outs of Indexing Joanne Phillips provides an answer, explains why it's a specialist job and why computers can't achieve the same result as a skilled indexer.
- 'Poetry isn't sexy. It's a quiet work. I always thought it was only clever or dead people who wrote poetry, but then I realised it was a way for me to settle scores in a funny way. Putting into words what I couldn't and can't say.' Roger McGough in our Writers' Quotes.