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"The canon of British children’s literature is one of this country’s great cultural achievements—and exports—but it’s increasingly a losing proposition to try to make a living writing it"
The excellent on why children's literature is under threat
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9 themes/trend predictions that will define 2023 — from a literary agent.
Here we go!
1. Authors will embrace trade paperbacks. With economics being what they are right now hardcover is not viable for consumers on a regular basis. And with paper costs going up globally
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I really struggled when I first became a mother, with... well, everything. I think the new #MaternityPledge is a brilliant idea, helping employers to support pregnant employees and new mothers. Check it out 👇🏻
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“Where do [corporate futurists] get the gall, the nerve, the chutzpah to claim knowledge about the unknown?”
Wonderful to see the return of the super smart ’s #BrainReel newsletter. It’s an excellent quick, provocative Sunday read.
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"Yes I’m earning more than the average author, but I’m earning less than the average full-time worker."
A reminder from that avoiding indie bookshops isn't going to solve the problem of rubbish author earnings.
"The human story is only rich and compelling if we maintain all the contrasting ways in which we can tell it."
A wonderful rallying call from the talented on why books need to help preserve a promote a multiplicity of endangered languages.
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When your friend/first reader/most talented editor in town not only helps you crack the next stage of your novel-in-progress, but prints you a mug with a line from it. Love you - and if you have a WIP, I cannot recommend her warm, wise, witty, word wizardry enough.
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This year’s Primadonna Prize for unsigned and un-agented authors will, for the first time, offer the winner a book contract with HQ with an advance of £7.5k for World English rights. Details on the website! Enter now! primadonnafestival.com
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"Poets haven’t always gone for a dry January. So many of their biographies are hardly testaments to self-care, so why is poetry packed with the potential to be good for us?
A joyful reminder from of why reading poetry is a very positive habit.
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Would your book make a good novel? It's a thing, increasingly so...
"Opera as a form lends itself to spectacle and heightened emotion — more so perhaps than a theatrical adaptation"
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📢Alert writers! This free online event at 6pm tonight brings together two of my fave recent books - WRITTEN by & FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS by . So much wisdom here on time, motivation & finishing that creative project. Hard recommend.
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''Covid isn’t over' is a message disabled and chronically ill (DCI) writers want the profession to take on board in 2023, along with an openness to ask all writers what their needs are."
on her wish-list of publishing's New Year resolutions
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"Slowly but surely, the revealed consensus around certain titles prompts us to wonder, did we love that book or did we love that book’s publicity campaign?"
Brilliant piece by on all those annual 'best books of the year' lists
So interesting noticing how people my age (40) treat my mum, who is 74, & more curious, energetic & interesting than I am. So many don't really ask her anything about her life, or make the effort they would with someone the same age. Awful to see invisible woman syndrome kick in.
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Stonking list.#Bookseller150
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Today we are unveiling The Bookseller 150, our annual list of the British and Irish book industry's most influential people! #Bookseller150
You can read the full list here: buff.ly/3HDtArt
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Just. So. True. An important piece from reminding the book trade that online/hybrid events and festivals are not a nice-to-have zetigeisty luxury but an essential route to access for so many.
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"With the current mission stating ‘Let’s Create’, and clear signs from young people that they want to be the creators of the world they live in, it’s time to rethink the top-down approach to literature."
on poetry games:
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(music, scenery, cardigan, bravery, dog)
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Canon in D as the first winter snow comes to Ireland’s shores 
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amazing medieval words you should definitely add to your vocabulary, a thread:
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"Every book published today is a slap in the face to the Russians who came to 'solve the Ukrainian question'."
An amazing piece from Kateryna Nosko as she talks to fellow Ukrainian publisher Roman Malynovskyi about making and selling books during war.
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"The platforms of the last decade are done. Let 2023 be a year of experimentation and invention! Let it come from the edges, the margins, the provinces, the marshes! THIS MEANS YOU!"
The ever-excellent Robin Sloan's latest newsletter is spot on:
Send a book for Christmas to a stranger, commit to reading the book they receive in return, and post a review on your socials using #jolabokaflod
A fun Christmas reading project from (and a good way for authors to share their books too)
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I was feeling pretty damn sharp this morning: stiff wide leg jeans, husband’s oversized black cashmere rollneck, a chic little silver chain, until he walks into the bedroom and says…😐
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Looking like a total nutter today, walking around and laughing out loud at the audiobook 's #Darling. Pure, unfettered, caustic delight, and brilliantly narrated by Sophie Winkleman.
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"Each book we publish could be teaching us how to publish the next, because we can watch readers respond to text in real-time. We can see a plot-point that flummoxed or a character that corpsed."
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"Author Philip Freedenberg, illustrator Jeff Walton & publisher will discuss how deeply engaging with text may help generate the energy needed to find a way out of the present dystopian hellhole."
Sounds damn good to me. If you've never tried Book Club..
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Our @SecondLife Book Club "America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots" Special is happening SATURDAY, December 3rd, 12pm SLT/Pacific.
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR WITH THIS CHANGE! I don't want to see ANY avatar tears 
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Our @SecondLife Book Club "America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots" Special is happening SATURDAY, December 3rd, 12pm SLT/Pacific.
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"Social media is not known for its kindness, but #BookTwitter is an oasis in the middle of the troll desert, a welcoming place (with a few high-profile exceptions) for those who love reading, who write, or who work in publishing."
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"It seems a surprise that a site depicting Draco Malfoy and his —fairly graphic— love affair with an apple has far clearer guidelines than Europe’s publishing houses."
Great piece from on how much publishers have to learn from fan fiction
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… and they are simply smashing it. reminding us not to allow ourselves to be put into boxes or make assumptions about others #FutureBook22
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Our creative keynote, @travisalabanza, is taking to the stage now! #FutureBook22
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Thanks to all my amazing panellists for such a vulnerable, thoughtful, helpful and positive discussion about writing and editing across cultures and beyond your own lived experience #FutureBook22
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“Fear can be so immobilising to creativity, and we really don’t want creativity to stop, but we also want to know the world we’re publishing into” says @katyloftus on the ‘Writing what you don’t know’ #FutureBook22 panel with @mollyflatt, @gkamsika, @Sophie_Deen & @DamilolaLizzie
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OpenBooks - a series of free online events that showcase book-related career options to students from underrepresented backgrounds - is to launch at #FutureBook22, and will officially go live in February 2023.
Read here: buff.ly/3T1maQV
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Super excited for this one - four passionate booksellers from across the UK on how bookshops can also be spaces for social activism and justice #FutureBook22
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We're also listening to @ruth_comerford speaking to @deelalljee, Matt Cornford (@QueerLitUK), Emma Corfield-Walters (@Bookishcrick), and Meera Ghanshamdas (@BooksRound) about bookshops as community activists #FutureBook22
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. is a brilliantly honest and eloquent publishing truth teller. Check out his series of columns in - they’re gold. thebookseller.com/comment/the-cu
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“I can say with my hand on my heart that publishing sees poor people as poor and that’s it, there’s no nuance to it” @juskasim tells #FutureBook22
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I’m in The. Best. #FutureBook22. Room. Four absolute talents talking about a crucial industry issue.
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Guest editor of our working-class issue @natashacarthew is talking with @Laurenrbrown95, @mahsudasnaith and @juskasim #FutureBook22
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Nielsen reckons 7.1 million books sold on the #booktok #tiktokmademebuyit tag from Jan-April 2022, worth more than £50m. That’s… a thing.
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Next up #FutureBook22 we are going look at two teams work on #BookTok (this year’s recipient of the @TheFutureBook ‘Person of the Year’ award) we even had @tiktok_uk’s James Stafford introducing the BookTok showcase.
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Really great to be back at #futurebook22 and a fabulously provocative and energising cry to publishing to fully grasp the opportunity of audiobooks from @kellifairbro from @xigxag5
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Kelli is amazing. WHY does publishing still refuse to make more effort with audiobooks - individually and as a model - despite their incredible growth and success?
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"Very little time and attention are paid to audiobooks by digital retailers. I’d extend this to publishers, as well." @kellifairbro, @xigxag5 c.e.o. #FutureBook22
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