Author Archive
November 1, 2013Day One, to be published weekly for Kindle, will include a short story and a poem by debut authors- October 30, 2013A murder mystery that has remained unsolved since 1931 and has baffled some of the sharpest minds in detective work and crime writing has been revisited by novelist PD James, who...
- October 14, 2013Romance and literary fiction have helped drive the number of US books self-published in hard copy up to 234,931, an increase of 59% compared to 2011.
- September 21, 2013Mystery continues to surround the publication of Morrissey's autobiography as the unpredictable former frontman of The Smiths used his True-To-You fansite to put out a statement...
- August 31, 2013Booksellers in the US have given a cool response to a letter from Barack Obama explaining his visit to an Amazon fulfilment centre.Obama was accused of offering his support to the...
- August 20, 2013A self-published book reaching the top of the charts is losing its power to surprise. Certainly it's less shocking than it might have been a few years ago to learn that Violet...
- August 15, 2013There are even more happy endings in store for devotees of queen of romance Barbara Cartland as 160 previously unpublished novels, including 57 entirely unseen works, are being...
- August 14, 2013After the dominance of fantasy and thrillers in recent years, the world's readers last year turned en masse to a different variety of fancy, sending erotica author EL James...
- July 29, 2013Margaret Atwood is set to make her debut as the author of an opera libretto, 15 years after she began work on the project.
- July 25, 2013JK Rowling chose her alter ego of Robert Galbraith by conflating the name of her political hero Robert F Kennedy and her childhood fantasy name "Ella Galbraith", the Harry Potter...
- July 23, 2013A previously unseen short story by Catch-22 writer Joseph Heller about the stabbing of a white man and a southern community's racist desire for revenge is to be published by US...
- July 9, 2013Author Joyce Carol Oates has sparked a social media ruckus with a series of tweets linking rape culture to Islam, drawing a stream of responses from other writers and users of the...
- July 8, 2013The perennial dispute over Shakespeare's true identity has been reignited after Alexander Waugh threw down a challenge for Shakespeare scholars to appear in a televised debate.
