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Children’s authors have hit out at the slew of celebrity book
deals struck in recent months, warning that full-time fiction writers are
struggling while famous people attract big advances and sizeable marketing
budgets.
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Waterstones’ retail director Rik McShane has left the company
after 17 years.
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Bloomsbury will publish new editions of J K
Rowling’s Harry
Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone this June to celebrate
the book’s 20th anniversary.
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Sam Leith, the author, columnist and literary editor of
the Spectator, is chairing the judging panel for the 10th Desmond
Elliott Prize.
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Titles from independents Faber, Peepal Tree Press, Chicken
House and Jacaranda feature on the inaugural shortlist for the Jhalak Prize
for a Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, alongside works from PRH's
Harvill Secker and Pan Macmillan.
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Picador has acquired a new novel, Fire Sermon, and
story collection, I
Want to Show You More, from US writer Jamie Quatro
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Elsevier has bought EBSCO's altmetrics business Plum
Analytics.
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James Crawford has been appointed chair of Publishing
Scotland.
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Romance writer Mandy Baggot has signed a two-book deal with
Ebury.
Baggot is “thrilled” to be joining the publisher, which has acquired world
all languages rights from her agent Kate Nash.
Single for the Summer,
publishing on 27th July, features sun, sea and romance against the backdrop
of Corfu and promises to be the “ultimate antidote to negativity”.
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Camille Whitcher, a 2016 graduate of the Cambridge School of
Arts Illustration MA, has won the 2017 Children’s Picture Book Prize,
organised by the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Brighton-based
indie publisher Salariya Book Company
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