6 January 2014 - What's new
6 January 2014
- The most comprehensive listing available on the web, here is our annual update of the international book fairs which will be held in 2014. Most of these are primarily intended as trade fairs for the book trade, but an ever-increasing number have extensive programmes of cultural events and opportunities to meet authors. Some set out to attract the general public, others have particular days when the public can get in. If you're a sefl-publisher, it's well worth thinking about visiting a book fair, to find out as much as you can about the book trade in your own country and internationally.
- Mike Shatzkin is the Founder & CEO of The Idea Logical Company and is described on its site as ‘a widely-acknowledged thought leader about digital change in the book publishing industry'. This is rather to understate the influence of this remarkable man. News Review
- 'I became strangely obsessed about this book in a way that I've never been before, to the point - and I'm usually a very good planner, I'm quite a nauseating swotter about it - where this time I simply couldn't write the last chapter. I just kept finding excuses, I simply couldn't let them go, it was tricky for me. Some authors say: "I'm not in the book at all," but I know I've been a teeny part of every single one of these characters at some point, they're just a much more fabulous and glamorous version of me...' Adele Parks, author of Spare Brides, in the Bookseller, quoted in our Comment column.
- In this week's links to top stories on the web for writers, there's a lot of predictions for 2014. Ten Bold Predictions for Ebooks and Digital Publishing in 2014 | Digital Book World, Top 5 Predictions for the e-Reader Industry in 2014 and Nine places to look in 2014 to predict the future of publishing - The Shatzkin Files, from this week's News Review subject, lead the field. But there's also Counter to Cliche, French Translations Sell Better Than Ever | Publishing Perspectives, Are Print Books Becoming Objets d'art? | Publishing Perspectives and Online publications see a future in print - latimes.com.
- Have you ever used our agents' listings? These comprehensive listings cover the UK, US and International agents, with a special listing for Children's Agents, and you can search the listings to find specific agents handling particular genres, such as poetry or animation. Listed are the individual agents and contact details.
- And, from the late, much-lamented Elizabeth Jane Howard in our Writers' Quotes: 'A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.'
- Is this the year when you want to complete your novel, find a publisher or publish your own book? There's a mass of information on the site which can help you with all of these and our editorial services and self-publishing service may also be of assistance.
