1. What inspired you to write this book? I feel that there is a need to revive art in America, now more than ever. The gradual loss of art and music programs in schools due to...
More than 661 booksellers, publishers, and distributors convene on Monday morning (April 7) at Sharjah Booksellers Conference. The post Sharjah’s 2025 Booksellers Conference Opens Today appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
'Preserving global trust in academic systems' is involved in some coordinated reacytions to illicit ISSN usage in Ukraine. The post A Win in Ukraine’s Academic ‘Metadata War’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .
1. What inspired you to write this book? I wrote The Year of a Million Dreams partly to remember my experiences working at The Walt Disney World Resort, but also to help anyone else that may want to apply to do the same...
“Over the past decade, common understanding of the EU as a peace project has weakened, and its stated purpose—to allow the free movement of people and goods—is no longer the political consensus.”
Since I love art, I wanted to create something related to it and began thinking about an art mystery involving lost artworks. Eventually, I came up with the idea of 100 lost Picasso paintings. Beatrix Koch – 5 April 2025 …...
1. What inspired you to write this book? I was inspired by observing the political polarization we see in Western countries these days, where people retreat into echo chambers, communicating with those outside their...
Well, here I am in the nation’s capitol — and what a week for that — where I am doing panels and signings all weekend long. After two weeks on the road, I am frankly excited to be able to be in one place for more than one day at a time,...
(Editor’s note: This is the 188th installment in The Rap Sheet’s continuing series about great but forgotten books. Its author is Stephen Eoannou of Buffalo, New York. In addition to holding an MFA degree from Queens University of...
Renowned American artist and illustrator Robert McGinnis, about whom I have written both on this page and in my Killer Covers blog, has died. He passed away in mid-March of this year, shortly after his 99th birthday. I have posted a...
1. What inspired you to write this book? Do you know the place right before one opens their eyes and is still dreaming? That is where I saw the funniest picture of a fairy caught in a magnifying glass. With big eyes holding on to...
The suite of society journals in the UK named IOP Publishing is testing a requirement to have researchers publicly reveal their research data. The post UK’s IOPP Raises Requirement for Data Behind Articles appeared first on...
Organizers of London’s mid-June Capital Crime Festival have announced the shortlists of contenders for this year’s Fingerprint Awards. Below are the nominees in two of the eight prize categories. Overall Best Crime Book of the Year: •...
There were 33,318 trade visitors reported to have attended the 2025 edition of Bologna Children's Book Fair, next year a bit later in April. The post Bologna Sees a Five-Percent Growth in Trade Visitors appeared first on Publishing...
A family member goes missing and a young woman decides to do something about it — but then there’s the matter of god-like royalty who have their own interest in events. It’s a lot! But as author Jade Presley explains in this Big Idea for...
Twelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralization.
The U.S. division of Barcelona-based Grupo Planeta launched in 2021 and has grown quickly after striking gold both stateside and in Puerto Rico. Its VP and publisher tells us how.
In The Wallflower That Bloomed, author Cally Logan shares how her creativity and curiosity stem from a deep relationship with God, the ultimate Creator, and how surrendering to His purpose reveals our hidden potential. Through personal...
In Spring Sings, singer and author Ellie Holcomb offers families a vibrant reminder of the gospel through the lens of nature’s springtime renewal, using her new children’s book and accompanying album to illustrate how creation itself...
Part of a series honoring the late author and blogger Bill Crider . The Hoods Take Over , by Ovid Demaris (Gold Medal, 1957). Cover illustration by Barye Phillips . Publisher Stark House Press reprinted this novel , Demaris’ second, back...
In order to sell your book, you need to know who your targeted buyer is and why they will buy it. This is not rocket science, but nevertheless may take some thinking. Your likely reader is someone who already likes...
The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.
With her densely textured, ambitious, and deeply collaborative scholarship, the historian Catherine Hall has transformed public discourse about slavery.
Who were we? Where did we come from? What did we look like, trudging up the hill between Convent Avenue and the subway, sitting obediently in class, arguing madly as soon as the bell rang? We were the children of tailors, shopkeepers,...
Brandon Shimoda’s book about how the descendants and survivors of the United States’ Japanese internment camps try to keep their families’ histories alive is also a look at the brutal system of migrant detention that continues to this day.
At the center of Children of Radium is Joe Dunthorne’s search for information about his great-grandfather—a German Jewish scientist who helped developed chemical weapons for the Nazis.