Best of the Shed
We feature some of the very best writing from inside the Shed, here on our front page. These are pieces that have earned wide approval and have been workshopped within 'The Lab', part of the Book Shed Forum.
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Four authors have withdrawn from a literary festival after a fellow writer was banned from speaking.
A novel developed through the peer review site YouWriteOn has almost guaranteed its status as a best seller after being selected for the Channel Four TV Book Club Summer Reads.
The cut-throat world of publishing has forced a science fiction writer to take the drastic step of offering people a cash incentive to read his novel.
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.
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.
Hodder & Stoughton has announced a deal to publish two children's books from bestselling author John Grisham.
BookShed member Amanda Hodgkinson has signed a two-book deal with Penguin imprint Fig Tree Press.
JK Rowling plans to ask a court to dismiss accusations that she plagiarised parts of the best-selling Harry Potter series.
Twit Ring
A random selection from BookShed writers.
