Egmont Press will publish 9/11 Boy, a novel about friendship, family, and racial tension, from debut children's author Catherine Bruton.
The 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize winning author Evie Wyld has today been announced as Booktrust's third online writer in residence. The 29-year-old won the prestigious prize with her debut novel set in Australia, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, which has since been shortlisted for the 2010 Authors Club First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
Readers will be invited to download free or reduced price e-books during 'Read an E-Book Week' between 7 and 13 March.
Penguin plans to kick start e-book sales with enhanced digital editions of bestsellers. Plans for interactive e-books go beyond embedded video and audio.
One hundred authors have contributed to a book entitled 100 Stories for Haiti to raise money for relief efforts in Haiti. The book is a collection of short stories from writers worldwide, published tomorrow (4 March 2010).
Publication has been halted for a book about the atomic bombing of Japan, after the author was said to have relied on fraudulent sources.
Publisher Henry Holt and Co has said it will stop printing and shipping copies, adding that author Charles Pellegrino "was not able to answer" concerns about The Last Train From Hiroshima, including whether two men mentioned in the book actually existed.
Harry Bingham's debut novel, The Money Makers, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list. Since then he's written four more for Harper Collins and is Editorial Director of the Writers' Workshop. As well as being Britain’s largest writers’ services company, the Writers' Workshop organises the York Festival of Writing.
Harry told the BookShed about his path to publication, the Writer's Workshop and the upcoming Festival of Writing.