Category: News

SALT LAKE CITY — Oh, the places you’ll go with Dr. Seuss. From the fictional town of Whoville to the valley of Truffula trees, the works of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) have entertained children throughout the world for years. March 2 marks the 115th birthday of the beloved children’s book author and illustrator — as…

Jennifer Schell is on cloud nine these days. Not only does this Kelowna native get to write about her two favourite subjects — food and wine — but now she’ll be delivering her message to a much larger audience. That’s because Schell recently landed a book deal with Random House. “It is the biggest publisher…

Lifestyle and organizational expert Marie Kondo is one of the biggest names in television this year. With her Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo making waves on TV in 2019, the calming KonMari creator is now taking on film’s biggest night. Marie Kondo attended her first Oscars, and if her look doesn’t spark joy…

A timely book tries to point to how much India and Pakistan have in common. “The Begum: A Portrait of Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s Pioneering First Lady,” is authored by Indian poet-translator Deepa Agarwal and Pakistani writer Tahmina Aziz Ayub, with an insightful introduction by acclaimed Indian writer Namita Gokhale. tipobetr.org The book traces…

We live in a day and age where we teach our children to stay away from anything unattended. We look at those things with suspicion. And, with reason. But what would you do if you found a book in a public place? Would you pick it up? Would you take it home? As a society,…

NEW YORK (AP) — “Pike Logan” novelist Brad Taylor has a three-book deal with a new publisher. William Morrow, a HarperCollins Publishers imprint, announced Thursday that it had signed the author for the next three installments of his million-selling thriller series. The first novel is scheduled for 2020. Taylor was most recently published by Dutton,…

Between writing workshops, interviews, bookstore events, school visits, social media, and other talks, authors often find themselves answering a lot of questions. Some of those questions, they hate to hear come out of someone’s mouth. Like, hate. Since authors are constantly promoting themselves and need all the goodwill they can get, they’ll almost never say…

It took four years for author Robin Sharma to have his book The 5 am Club see the light of day. Having ruled the bookshelves with his previous work The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, Robin has touched upon one of the most talked-about subjects in today’s time; the 5 am rule. While getting up early…

LONDON [UK]: Author of books like ‘Small Island’ and ‘The Long Song’, Andrea Levy died from cancer at the age of 62. Known for writing about the Windrush generation, the wave of Caribbean migrants that came to Britain after World War II, Andrea Levy was born in London in 1956, reported CNN. Her fourth novel…

Let’s get some depressing facts out of the way. If you’re a new author you can expect to have a first print run of 2,000 copies. This means that you can expect to get paid an advance between Rs 20,000-40,000. No, this is not a typo. And no, I haven’t missed an extra zero or…