With the publishing landscape proving more challenging than ever for new writers in Scotland, Caroline Carpenter looks at the schemes and systems designed to support them.
Fail again, fail better
Here is a call for those of us involved in writing - and perhaps in all sectors of the book industry - to speak openly about failure and its ubiquity.
Shuggie Bain bags Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2021
May 14 2021 Douglas Stuart has won Book of the Year at the British Book Awards, triumphing with his “truly exceptional” début novel, Shuggie Bain. Other winners at the virtual ceremony (held on 13th May) were 17-year-old Dara McAnulty, former monk Jay Shetty, Delia Owens, Caroline Hirons, Robert Galbraith, and M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman. Source: The Bookseller More News Stories
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For her debut picture book Flora Delargy, an author and illustrator from Northern Ireland, decided to tell the lesser-known part of the “Titanic” story, about the brave captain who turned around his ship, “Carpathia”, to rescue survivors from the freezing Atlantic.
Home-working has hit junior publishing staff, Copeland fears
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Kyle Books snaps up McKenna’s speedy recipes
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W&N pre-empts Bishop’s ‘dazzling’ literary thriller
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has pre-empted a “dazzling” novel by author and lecturer Stephanie Bishop about a trip to a literary prize ceremony which has tragic consequences.
IPG and Book Chain Project to map environmental impact of industry
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Watson swaps Canongate for HarperCollins
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