Malala Yousafzai Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai notes that Just eight days of military spending could educate the world To bring attention to that, she has launched the #BooksNotBullets hashtag…Continue reading#BooksNotBullets
It’s been said on the Internet that the BBC believes that most people will have read only six of the 100 books below. Extraordinary, but you have to believe it…Continue readingOnly six?
Buzzfeed Books asked subscribers of their newsletter to tell them about a book that they couldn’t put down. One reader talked about taking her choice to work and pretending to…Continue readingUnputable downable
Few benefits of the e-reader are as attractive as the privacy it affords, Calum Marsh writes at The Guardian, so after the launch of the Kindle, erotic romance really took…Continue readingSexy ereaders
What is it that makes certain stories last? That’s a question that Neil Gaiman explores in a lecture two and a half years in the making, part of the Long…Continue readingStories are alive
In the little over a decade I have been writing full time, I have received some fascinating letters. Two stand out particularly. I haven’t asked permission of the letter writers…Continue readingDear Author…
I’m off to New Hampshire to be a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Writing Workshop to give a class on building characters. I’d like to bring along some of my…Continue readingTelling off the author
They didn’t ask me, but Clickhole asked some other authors: What’s your most important advice for young writers? If I had been asked, I would have told beginners: If you’re…Continue readingGood advice?
At The Huffington Post, Claire Fallon notes that books about women don’t win major prizes, and asks: “How Can We Change That?” Man, woman, cyborg — no matter what kind…Continue readingNo women or girls
In The Guardian, author Ursula K Le Guin, as the headline says Launches broadside on Amazon’s ‘sell it fast, sell it cheap’ policy Ursula K LeGuin at home in Portland…Continue readingThe Amazon Wars