Anne Collins, publisher of Knopf Random Canada, has acquired Canadian English rights to Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing, a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision, and wit.
The biggest book-buying season is upon us, so authors, publishers and retailers are keen to see which books will be the most popular for gift-giving. At Page Two, we feel that books make the ultimate gift, especially when compelling content is offered in a package that’s exquisitely produced.
We’re delighted to announce the launch of BC Books Online, an initiative enabling librarians, booksellers, educators, and the public alike to easily browse thousands of books from the province’s publishers, for the first time through one central website.
One of the burning questions for most writers hoping to get a book deal is: what kind of advance will I get? We’ve written before about the sobering state of writers’ incomes.
A publishing industry trend is hard to predict. Who could have known that a boy wizard would take the world by storm, or that Fifty Shades would bring erotica further into the mainstream than ever before?
A couple of weeks ago, we blogged about whether you need a literary agent to get a book deal. Let’s say you decide you want to pitch publishers directly.
Fall is Festival season in the publishing community. Writers, book lovers, publishers and agents come out in droves to attend events, workshops and parties in celebration of the book. We encourage aspiring and emerging writers to attend writer’s festivals and conferences as a part of their learning and networking process while they’re developing their writing careers.
The benefits of having a literary agent are significant: they explain the publishing world to you, shape your book ideas and proposals, negotiate your deals and parse your contracts, and open doors to publishers that you might not be able to access yourself, among other things.
Since self-publishing became a common practice, we’ve begun to see authors routinely referred to as entrepreneurs, and the act of publishing described as an entrepreneurial endeavour. We wholeheartedly agree with these comparisons, but we feel they’re not new.
Page Two principals Jesse Finkelstein and Trena White are the latest guests to speak about self publishing on ProSpeak, an online professional speakers series curated and hosted by Geoffrey X Lane.
Oxford University Press United States senior editor Abby Gross has acquired world English rights, excluding Canada, to Emotional Promiscuity: The Science of Serial Romance, by Dr. Daniel Jones, the world’s leading researcher into why some people tend to fall in love fast, easily, and often.
Copies of the beautiful forthcoming cookbook, Hot Thai Kitchen, by Page Two agency client Palin Chongchitnant, are now available for pre-order through Amazon.com or the book’s publisher Penguin Random House.
