As Big Five publishers work to cultivate new relationships directly with readers, HarperCollins’ Angela Tribelli discusses its once-and-future curated pop-up store: it disappears on New Year’s Eve.
What is “unsupportive” when writers and authors need to hear the truth? Is our culture too prone to compliments to be helpful anymore with feedback? Is it the end of honesty? Or can we all do better?
Like a collection of short stories or poems, Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy’s new album — which you can hear as you read in #MusicForWriters, thanks to Q2 Music — is a group of small tales with big sound.
With Digital Book World’s (DBW) crowded keynote schedule kicking off 2015’s publishing industry conferences, technologist and writer Baldur Bjarnason likens these major events to ecclesiastical rituals. Grab a hymnal.
In the ebb and flow of her newly recorded music-theater work, the Italian-born American composer finds those “energies colliding” that inspire her to map her “internal geography.” With support from Q2 Music, #MusicForWriters talks with Paola Prestini about her influences — Mediterranean and otherwise.
The controversy over Zoe Sugg’s new book ‘Girl Online’ makes us wonder if the publishing industry understands the authenticity of today’s interaction between stars and their fans.
The opening conference of April’s big publishing trade show in London will feature a multilingual social-media backchannel, and London Book Fair’s “Digital Minds” conference is calling for professional volunteers.
Wherever the imaginary Marco Polo of Christopher Cerrone’s (and Italo Calvino’s) ‘Invisible Cities’ may have traveled, in this Music for Writers entry, you’ll find the most valuable map to your own creativity by listening — in the dark.
Even as self-publishing authors may weary of hearing about the problems of much independently produced content — typos and other editorial woes — a new showcase means yet another reason to urge authors to shoot for precision and excellence to meet the marketplace’s standards.
The four men of New York Polyphony release an album of seasonal music in their trademark a cappella precision. As #MusicForWriters, this is a sonic chapel for tinsel-tired times and edit-weary energies.