This Week on Books Direct -
5 May 2018
Here's a list of some great articles you may have
missed this week. Enjoy!
(Okay,
so it wasn’t in the news this week, but I missed this one earlier.)
Who Bought Sylvia Plath’s Stuff? by
Kate Bolick for New York Times
A
tartan kilt, fishing rod and dragon pendant were among items auctioned recently
by the poet’s daughter, Frieda Hughes.
MWA Announces The 2018 Edgar Award Winners by
Margery Flax for MWA
Mystery
Writers of America is proud to announce the Winners of the 2018 Edgar Allan Poe
Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television
published or produced in 2017. The Edgar® Awards were presented to the winners
at our 72nd Gala Banquet held on 26 April 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York
City.
J. K. Rowling Explains Why Harry Potter 9 Will Never Happen by Andrew Sims for Hypable
Speaking
at the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and
the Cursed Child on Sunday, Rowling said she doesn’t expect to continue
moving the story “forward” by creating a Harry Potter Book 9. The events in The Cursed Child penned by her, Jack
Thorne, and John Tiffany are as far as she ever envisioned the series going,
she says.
Introducing In-Car Delivery by Amazon
As a
Prime member, you can now get your Amazon packages securely delivered right
into your vehicle.
In The #MeToo Moment, Publishers Turn To Morality Clauses by Rachel Deahl for Publishers Weekly
Once
an anomaly in author contracts, morality clauses are becoming a standard tool
for publishers looking to protect themselves against misbehaving authors.
How To Use NetGalley To Get Self-Published Book Reviews by David Wogahn
This
post covers one of the most established (and authentic) methods of securing
reviews: tapping the NetGalley community of professional readers to consider
reviewing your book.
GDPR For Entrepreneurs: What You Need To Know podcast
by Bobby Klinck for Amy Porterfield
If
you have an online business or an email list that you communicate with, you’ve
probably heard the rumblings around the internet about the EU’s new General
Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect 25 May 2018. Bobby Klinck,
an intellectual property attorney, helps us navigate all things GDPR.
Korean Peninsula: When Reality “Interferes” With Your Writing by Hans M. Hirschi
What
do you do when history is changing right around you and it affects your writing?
Why Are Stories Rejected By Editors, Agents, And Readers?
by Catherine E. McLean for Writers Cheat Sheets
There
are many reasons why stories get rejected by readers, editors, agents, and also
why stories receive low scores from contest judges. Here are seven of the most
common ones.
Broadway Producers Of To Kill A Mockingbird Headed To Trial Against Harper Lee Estate
by Adam Hetrick for Playbill
Executors
for Lee’s estate feel that Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation strays too far from
the original intent of Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic.
Common Writing Struggles by Joanne Saccasan for
Joanne Writes Books
Here
are Joanne’s top five common writing struggles to which every writer should
relate.
The
organisation that decides the Nobel Prize for Literature has said it will not
announce an award this year, after it was engulfed in a scandal over sexual
assault allegations.
Library Of Congress Prize For American Fiction To Be Awarded To E. Annie Proulx by Brett Zongker for Library of Congress
Librarian
of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that E. Annie Proulx, author of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Shipping
News and the short story “Brokeback Mountain”, will receive the Library of
Congress Prize for American Fiction during the 2018 Library of Congress
National Book Festival on 1 September.
The Writer Zinzi Clemmons Accuses Junot Diaz Of Forcibly Kissing Her by Alexandra Alter and Jonah Engel Bromwich for New
York Times
Junot
Diaz on Friday was accused of aggressive and sometimes violent behaviour by
writers on Twitter, including Zinzi Clemmons and Carmen Maria Machado.
If you enjoyed this blog post, please visit the other This Week posts for links to more great
articles.
