An organizer of Manitoba’s Biggest Book Night said she was “heartbreaking” by the decision to end the awards ceremony, which has recognized literary talent in the province for more than three decades. In recent years, the Manitoba Book Awards have been organized by a coalition of Plume Winnipeg (formerly the Winnipeg International Writers Festival), the […]
As this scene from the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, California shows, receiving a new … (+) Getting a book out there is no easy feat. Some authors, like Steve Hamilton, are turning to innovative marketing techniques (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Getty Images In 2019, I wrote a column about well-known crime writer […]
In Gill Paul’s latest book, Scandalous Women, a historical novel about the phenomenal bestselling authors Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins – both famous for their sex-heavy fiction and their struggle for recognition and critical acceptance in the male-dominated publishing world of the 1960s – there is a shocking scene that could have come straight from […]
