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Whats new: 16 January 2023 - What's new 16 January 2023

‘It's a big part of the job. Being able to put yourself in their shoes is really important. I'm not a writer, but I watch a lot of author content online and I read a lot of stuff from authors. Having that perspective is really important for me to be able to give my authors context. Their...

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Link: Gains in translation for fiction readers and publishers – The Irish Times 16 January 2023

Something interesting has been going on in publishing this year. Not the thumping increases in overall revenue - up 5 per cent to £6.7 billion across digital and physical books in the UK and Ireland. And not the surge in export markets: despite Brexit, exports are up 8 per cent to English...

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Link: Finding Connection on Twitter 16 January 2023

People from many different industries have watched the rapid erosion of Twitter. While it remains up and running as of this date, millions of people have abandoned or shut down their accounts for reasons ranging from owner Elon Musk's reinstatement of former president Donald Trump's account to...

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Link: BookTok trope-ification debate: How hashtagging titles is affecting authors and readers. 16 January 2023

"Everyone always asks, so here you go," Aaliyah Aroha wrote in the caption of what would go on to become one of her most popular TikTok videos. She appears, lip-syncing to a song from the app-favorite Unofficial Bridgerton Musical and holding a stack of books, as the words "Enemies to Lovers...

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Link: Men Are the Most Likely Victims of Homicide. Why Do Crime Writers Kill So Many Women? ‹ CrimeReads 16 January 2023

It was a dreary day in October, and the baby that was supposed to have arrived was already late. Maybe that means nothing to you, but to me, it meant that my out-of-office had long ago gone up and instead of holding my new baby, I was Googling the rates of stillbirth for post-term infants and...

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Link: Robert Gottlieb edited Caro, le Carré and 'Catch-22' but is OK being 'unseen' : NPR 16 January 2023

At 91, Robert Gottlieb is perhaps the most acclaimed book editor of his time. He started out in 1955 and has been working in publishing ever since - serving as editor-in-chief at Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker. The list of authors he's edited include Joseph Heller, Toni...

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Link: Surveying the Profession(s): How Much Do UK Writers Earn? 16 January 2023

The new report, released this month, is titled UK Authors' Earnings and Contracts 2022: A Survey of 60,000 Writers.

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Link: The Bookseller - News - Celebrated novelist Fay Weldon dies, aged 91 16 January 2023

Author and screenwriter Fay Weldon has died "peacefully" at the age of 91, her agent Georgina Capel has confirmed.

The writer was best known for her novels exploring society and class. She penned more than 30, including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (Sceptre) and Praxis (Coronet),...

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Link: TBR Pile Threatening to Topple? Let Go of the Guilt . . . ‹ CrimeReads 16 January 2023

Happy New Year, book lovers! For me, January 1st came and went like a flash, and my TBR pile hasn't budged one iota since the start of 2022. Not ONE. SINGLE. MILLIMETER. In fact, it's grown even taller. And the pileup on my e-reader? At this stage it's reached monumental proportions-a traffic...

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Link: Philip Pullman: ‘I had to grow up before I could cope with Middlemarch’ | Philip Pullman | The Guardian 16 January 2023

My earliest reading memory

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Link: How Author James Patterson Writes 31 Books at the Same Time | GQ 16 January 2023

"My grandmother said, ‘Hungry dogs run faster,'" says the 75-year-old. "I've always been a hungry dog."

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Link: A Thin Place: Carole Johnstone on Moving to Scotland’s Outer Hebrides ‹ CrimeReads 16 January 2023

When I look back at who I was just a few years ago and who I am today, it always gives me a jolt. A lot changes throughout our lives, but more often those changes happen slowly and in parts. We move house or change jobs; we meet people, we lose people.

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