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As Disruption Sweeps Publishing, A Crowdfunding Platform For Books Finds A Niche: Connecting Authors with Publishers
Forbes
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Marijn Wiersma wants to challenge how women think about their careers. "Don’t confuse grit with well-being," advised Wiersma, a corporate anthropologist based in the Netherlands and founder of Incredible Impact, a company focused on unlocking...
For Charleston Porch Talks series, local author reviews inaugural speaker Elin Hilderbrand
The Post & Courier - South Carolina
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The Academy. By Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham. Little, Brown and Company. 432 pages, $21. Editor’s note: For the Charleston Porch Talks series, we’re asking authors to review the work of fellow authors who are featured speakers in the...
BOOK REVIEW: Beyond Expectations, a Memoir
The Cable
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September 13, 2025
On January 28, 1984, a quartet of celebrated Nigerian Journalists, Dele Giwa, Ray Ekpu, Dan Agbese and Yakubu Mohammed, launched Nigeria’s first weekly news magazine Newswatch into the vibrant Nigerian media market with a buzz of excitement...
Book Review | Snake Mythologies From Around The World
The Asian Age
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September 13, 2025
Snakes, and the mysterious subterranean world they inhabit, have always been fascinating, filling us with a primordial awe and fear. The author tells us how an elderly gentleman had once corrected him for referring to these creatures as merely...
Book Review | Unhappy Marriage Of Chick Lit, Social Satire
The Asian Age
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September 13, 2025
Nothing much has changed in India since 1993 when Anuradha Marwah’s novel, The Higher Education of Geetika Mehendiratta, was first published. Republished now for another generation of readers, it’s sadly evident that patriarchy still rules,...
Writers on a New England Stage: Jennifer Weiner
New Hampshire Public Radio
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September 13, 2025
Over more than two decades, author Jennifer Weiner has written compulsively readable novels with rich emotional depth that center women, exploring themes such as complex familial relationships, the social landscape of modern America, and, above...
‘Their light is enduring’: Publisher-writer Dharini Bhaskar is sure literary fiction will never die
Scroll.in
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Dharini Bhaskar has spent over a decade in publishing – as author of two novels, These, Our Bodies Possessed by Light, and Like Being Alive Twice – and has vantage points on literature from both sides of the publisher’s desk. In a conversation...
Book review - 'It Found Us'
The Register-Herald - West Virginia
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“It Found Us” by Lindsay Currie is sure to be your next favorite spooky mystery. Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods is good at snooping, although she calls it sleuthing. After eavesdropping on her brother’s plans to play hide and seek in the local...
Book review: Three jinxed daughters in Oyinkan Braithwaite’s cursed tale
The Straits Times
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September 13, 2025
By Oyinkan Braithwaite Fiction/Atlantic Books/Paperback/352 pages/$30.30 Nigerian-British writer Oyinkan Braithwaite has followed up her smash-hit debut novel, My Sister, The Serial Killer (2018), with Cursed Daughters, another tense, thrilling...
Zululand novel now a classroom set work
Zululand Observer
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September 13, 2025
AUTHOR Ashling McCarthy is well on her way to becoming a household name, with the recent adaptation of her first novel into a high school study guide bringing her work into the classroom. First published in 2020, Down at Jika Jika Tavern is a...
CLNZ | NZSA Research Grants 2025 Winners: Four Cash Grants Awarded To Support Local Writers
Pacific Scoop
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September 12, 2025
Press Release – NZSA The $5,000 grants support local writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. The 2025 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa...
Rockabilly Ronnie Sando, other authors talk about publishing
Standard Speaker - Pennsylvania
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September 13, 2025
Ronnie Sando said if anyone ever told him while he was growing up in Beaver Meadows that he would go to Nashville and sing with Elvis Presley’s band, he wouldn’t have believed it. He tells how it happened in his autobiography that just came out in...
BOOKMARKS: Back to school means back to reading — and discussing summer's book lists
WVIA - Pennsylvania
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September 13, 2025
The summer is over, and for students returning to school, that often means it’s time to prove they did their summer reading. Reading a book that’s been assigned to you can go one of two ways — either you’ll love to hate whatever the book is, or...
Mary, quite contrary | A review of Arundhati Roy’s memoir
The Hindu
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September 13, 2025
All books have covers that seek to convey or augment the content in some manner. Few do it as artfully as the Indian edition of Mother Mary Comes To Me. The book comes with half a dust jacket, with an arresting photo of the author in her youth,...
Best-selling children’s author, artist booked for Book Festival
The Boerne Star - Texas
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September 13, 2025
THE BOOKWORM We’re so excited to feature children’s book author and artist Kazu Kibuishi at the Boerne Book Festival Saturday, Oct. 4, on the Patrick Heath Public Library grounds. In case you’re not familiar with the author, he’s the creator of...
Forty Voices, One Message – A review of Stephanie Busari’s Her Story, Taking Root, Sparking Change
Business Day
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September 13, 2025
Title: Her Story: Taking Root, Sparking Change Author: Stephanie Busari Year of Publication: 2025 Number of Pages: 311 Anyone picking up this book may not immediately realize they’re holding the wisdom of forty books in one, what a gift. Stephanie...
2025 National Book Awards: Seattle writer, translator longlisted
Yakima Herald-Republic - Washington State
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This week, the National Book Foundation announced the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, and two Seattleites are included. Journalist Claudia Rowe, a former Seattle Times reporter who now sits on the paper's editorial board, was...
Kildare author's novel themed on child homelessness and Celtic mythology
KildareLive
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September 13, 2025
A Kildare author has just published her debut fantasy adventure novel based on the twin themes of Irish mythology and the very real concerns of child homelessness in Ireland. 'Stone Seekers' by Deirdre Johnson from Clane tells the story of an...
China-Sarawak book fair launched at Boulevard Mall Kuching to celebrate cultural exchange
Borneo Post
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September 13, 2025
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Threads WhatsApp Telegram (Back, from sixth left) Xing, Wee and others in a photocall after the launch of the book fair. – Photo by Aileen Yap KUCHING (Sept 13): A three-day book exhibition jointly organised by the...
Penticton artist and author builds a fantasy world through multiple mediums (Penticton)
Castanet Kamloops
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September 13, 2025
A Penticton author who's also been internationally recognized for her artwork is launching a Kickstarter campaign to release hardcover editions of her fantasy series. Kindrie Grove, who wrote and illustrated The Stone Guardians, is working to get...