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Publishers should help authors to identify their digital
skills, but social media is “not the most important thing”, writers and
industry insiders have told The
Bookseller.
Authors should feel comfortable with any digital activity they
are asked to undertake, using tweeting, blogging and other online platforms
to build an audience, rather than explicitly becoming a tool to sell books.
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The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has launched
#ThisBookClub, a campaign to “celebrate the diversity of the modern day
book club and the myriad ways that novels can bring people together”.
The prize is partnering with fashion retailer Whistles and
city bar chain All Bar One to deliver a series of live events “encouraging
people to connect over books in new sociable ways”.
To launch #ThisBookClub, the prize has asked three pairs of
inspirational women to reveal the novels written by women they most want to
share with one another.
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WH Smith has struck a deal to open six outlets at Sydney
airport, Australia.
The company, which bought the Queensland-based Supanews chain
last year, has reportedly secured the Sydney airport venues after a
“competitive tender process” according to Stationery News Australia.
The new stores are part of the airport’s plans to transform
the T1 terminal and the first outlet will open in August.
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Library users have been staging sit-ins at the Library of
Birmingham as it switches to shorter opening hours following council cuts.
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The Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir has
won the 2015 Petrona Award for the Best Scandinavian Crime Novel of the
Year.
The book, translated by Victoria Cribb and published by Hodder
& Stoughton, was chosen as the wining title by Petrona Award judges
Barry Forshaw, Dr Katharina Hall and Sarah Ward.
The award was presented to Saturday at a Gala Dinner at
CrimeFest in Bristol.
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The shortlists for the Crime Writers’ Association’s Short
Story Dagger, International Dagger, Non Fiction Dagger, Endeavour
Historical Dagger and Debut Dagger awards for 2015 have been revealed.
They were announced during an official reception at this year's
CrimeFest in Bristol on Friday (15th May).
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The Hospital Club h.Club 100 campaign for the most influential
and innovative people in the UK’s creative industries, has opened for
public nominations.
The awards, formally known as The Hospital Club h.Club 100 in
partnership with the Creative Industries Council and now in their seventh
year, honour people in 10 categories including publishing and writing.
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Skyscraper Publications is publishing a controversial new book
by Joan Brady, America’s
Dreyfus: The Case Nixon Rigged (September, £20).
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Walker has signed a middle-grade story, set in a children’s TB
hospital in Shropshire during the Second World War, by author Megan
Shepherd and illustrator Levi Pinfold.
The main character in The
Secret Horses of Briar Hill is Emmaline, a girl at the hospital
who sees winged horses in the hospital mirrors. When she discovers one of
the horses wounded in the garden she knows she must do everything she can
to help the horse and save herself along the way.
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Nottingham independent Candlestick Press is to publish a
mini-anthology of bedtime poems chosen by Germaine Greer.
Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume Two) will be
published in July, after editor Jenny Swann brokered the deal through
Greer.
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Picture book publishers from around the world are being
invited to enter for China’s Chen Bochui awards, which will be held during
the Shanghai Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) in November.
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Mitchell Beazley has commissioned a new cookbook by "The
Great British Bake Off" semi-finalist Chetna Makan.
Eleanor Maxfield, senior commissioning editor at Octopus,
which owns Mitchell Beazley, acquired world rights to the title from Stuart
Cooper at Metrostar Media.
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