UK publisher Bookouture to host Twitter pitch event
The goal: hear from diverse writers of commercial fiction.
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Links of Interest: December 21, 2022
The latest in traditional publishing, celebrities, artificial intelligence, legal issues, and culture & politics.
Writing What You Don’t Know: Getting Over the Fear
Editors and authors agree it’s okay to write outside your lived experience, as long as you do your homework.
Disability in Publishing launches with virtual event
A new organization run by and for disabled publishing professionals is set to launch on July 22 at 8 PM Eastern with a virtual town hall.
A new, researched look at racial inequality in US traditional publishing
Redlining Culture, just released from Columbia University Press, is generating buzz and conversation in traditional publishing circles.
PEN America Reveals the Dark Combo of Censorship and Diversity Struggles
A report from PEN America on the lack of diversity in children’s literature underscores soft censorship and the imagination gap.
Links of Interest: August 24, 2016
Links of interest for August 24, 2016, including: how to write your book description, diversity efforts, Amazon publishing.
Cozies of Color: Sisters in Crime Investigates Itself on Diversity
Sisters in Crime mystery writers’ support group looks in the mirror and shows the membership to be even whiter than might have been expected.
Links of Interest: July 13, 2016
Links of interest to publishing industry news stories and Harlequin and Random House announce new imprints.
Romancing the Differences: “Multicultural,” “Diverse,” and Nielsen’s New RWA Summit
Questions of diversity in romance came into play last year at RWA’s conference, and the Nielsen program is designed to tackle them.