As we go to press the future of the bookselling chain of Borders is undecided. It's US owners are selling the UK branches and rumours are flying round that James Heneage (founder of Ottakar's) and David Roche, the current Borders c.e.o could be planning a buy-out of the 42 Borders stores in the UK and Ireland...
Moves, mergers, and all the rest of the industry news.
Armadillo's editor and technical editor were both at the Bologna Children's Books Rights Fair this April; it was my 8th and her 4th fair so we both felt we were getting the hang of it...
In this first in an occasional series, Nicky Browne, author of fantasy fiction for Bloomsbury, such as Warriors of Alavna, Balilisk, The Story of Stone and The Spellgrinder's Apprentice, gives a tongue-in-cheek key to successful novel planning.
Any working writer will have encountered the phenomenon that, when you describe yourself as a writer, strangers will ask: –had anything published?”...
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