Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction announces Chair of judging panel

The Baileys Prize is delighted to announce that Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, will Chair the Judging Panel for the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

How Print Is Slowly Killing Publishers

Book2Book Wednesday 30 July 2014

It's a textbook example of The Innovator's Dilemma. The crazy part is we all know it's a big problem and yet very few publishers are taking evasive action.
I'm talking about the reliance on print, even at the expense of digital transformation and growth.


Book Business

A Book By Any Other Name

Book2Book Wednesday 30 Jul 2014

In the midst of the Hachette-Amazon wars as well as the launch of Kindle Unlimited, there has been much hand-wringing about what it means to be a publisher, a writer, and a reader. One excellent piece by Laura Miller at Salon suggests that the "active readership for self-published books has agreed to go through America's slush pile." In other words, Amazon is letting anyone throw crap at the wall and we, the readers, have to see if it sticks.


Tech Crunch

Serious Editors Talking Seriously About Serious Subjects

Today's Feature Story: Amid Crisis, Greece Tries to Keep Thessaloniki Book Fair Alive Evangelia Avloniti reports on the on struggle to sustain the Thessaloniki Book Fair, a vital connection between Greek publishers and the rest of the world.

Discussion: Serious Editors Talking Seriously About Serious Subjects When seven English-language editors visited Germany for meetings with their colleagues in publishing, key similarities and differences were revealed.

More News from PP: Murakami Reading Group Continues with Kafka on the Shore Publishing Perspectives' online book club covering the works of Haruki Murakami starts Kafka on the Shore, perhaps the Japanese author's most beloved novel.

From the Archives: Yawn No More: Americans and the Market for Foreign Fiction As proven by the conversations at BookExpo America, American publishers, editors and readers may finally be coming around to embracing more foreign literature.

The Bitter Sweet Philosophies

Paintings by Nick Fedaeff / Words by KK Jart

Published by Eunoia Publishing, 31 July 2014

Available as a limited print edition in hardback and (in a choice of covers) paperback, on Kindle, and through online retailers (RRP varies)

HUMOUR. PHILOSOPHY. ART.

People interpret paintings in various ways. But, ask a group of writers to respond, and you enter strange and unexpected worlds.

The Bitter Sweet Philosophies is an art book with a difference; a playful reinvention of the genre in which a collective of writers known as KK Jart engage with the surrealist vision of internationally-acclaimed artist, Nick Fedaeff.

The paintings featured in The Bitter Sweet Philosophies, in which readers get to choose between two cover variations (featured above), are an exploration of life through a child’s eyes. Each painting has, Fedaeff says, “a real life behind it” and is inspired by a childhood memory. The pictures depict the universal emotions of joy, curiosity and fear, which speak to adults and children alike.

Appraising each painting in the collection – there are 55 in total – with daring and imagination, the writers illuminate, satirise, amuse and often, they surprise and unsettle. They conjure up ancient wisdoms, fairy stories, personal philosophies/meditations, accepted truths. A picture is worth a thousand words, but each painting by Nick Fedaeff contains a thousand stories.

“I’ve done my part. My pictures are very obvious. But then you have different takes on each one. The writers have their own independent vision and points of view. It has been a very unusual experience.” – Nick Fedaeff

Frequently described as a soft-surrealist, Nick Fedaeff acknowledges the influence of Da Vinci, Dali, Bosch and Picasso. Inspired by dreams and reality, he adds humour as a tool of engagement.

Based in New Zealand, Eunoia Publishing is an international company dedicated to publishing quality writing, and assisting authors to get published. Established in 2010 by a collective of award-winning writers, editors, journalists and educators, including Judith White, their belief is that good books should be a work of art in every way.

Originally from Russia, Nick Fedaeff now resides in New Zealand. An accomplished artist, musician and composer, his paintings have been exhibited in collections around the world, including New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Japan. Fedaeff has been painting since childhood, and uses a combination of acrylics, oils and mixed media to create his work. For more information about Nick Fedaeff, go to: http://www.nickfed.com/.