Breaking news on authors, publishers, and book-related topics

BookBrowse Book News

Page 408 of 439

View abbreviated list of news stories

Petition to save Harry Potter

Jul 10 2007: British bookstore chain Waterstone's is attempting to gather a million signatures. The petition reads, "We, the undersigned, petition J.K. Rowling to write more new adventures for Harry Potter and his friends no matter what happens at the end of Harry Potter and the ...

Full Story

Trailblazing romance author Kathleen Woodiwiss dies

Jul 09 2007: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, who is credited with inventing the modern historical romance novel, died at the age of 68 on July 6 2007 after a long battle with cancer. Woodiwiss broke onto the scene in 1972 with The Flame in the Flower which went on to become a huge bestseller...

Full Story

Harry Potter virus

Jul 02 2007: Harry Potter fans be warned: An email is doing the rounds purporting to contain a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is a a virus. Experts in the field describe the "worm" as an 'old school' virus, in that it is written to give the author a platform to ...

Full Story

Independent bookstores about NPR links to Amazon

Jul 01 2007: Publishers Weekly reports independent bookstores' frustrations that despite the fact that many underwrite their local National Public Radio stations, NPR links to Amazon.com for sales, both at a national and, often, regional level. NPR VP for communications Andi ...

Full Story

New magazine publishing writing & artwork by children aged 6-12

Jun 29 2007: "Launch Pad: Where Young Authors and Illustrators Take Off!" is a new magazine devoted to publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and artwork by children ages 6-12. The first print issue will be Jan/Feb 2008. They are looking for creative works about ...

Full Story

NEA support for Big Read program increases

Jun 27 2007: The National Endowment for the Arts has substantially increased its participation in its Big Read program. On Monday the organization awarded 117 new grants totaling over $1.5 million and more than doubling the number of communities participating in the program.

...

Full Story

Jury finds

Jun 25 2007: The jury in the suit filed by a film company to recoup film rights granted by Laura Albert for Sarah by JT Leroy found Leroy to be "not just a fictional creation, but a fraud."  As part of its verdict in the civil case, the jury ordered Ms. Albert ...

Full Story

Stephen Hawking to publish children's book

Jun 17 2007: Simon and Schuster will publish Stephen Hawking's first book for children this fall (aimed at middle grade readers). George's Secret Key to the Universe, written with his daughter, Lucy Hawking, and illustrated by Garry Parsons, will explain the cosmos to children ...

Full Story

Win This Book
Win Theo of Golden

Theo of Golden by Allen Levi

One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…

Enter

BookBrowse Book Club

Book Jacket
The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant
by Liza Tully
A detective’s young assistant craves glory but must learn teamwork in this delightful, feel-good mystery.

Members Recommend

  • Book Jacket
    Somebody Worth Killing
    by Jessica Payne
    Meet Nadia Davis, loving mom, devoted wife, secret assassin… and she needs a babysitter.
  • Book Jacket
    Feast
    by Catherine Kurtz
    In 19th-century France, a girl with a magical taste becomes a duc’s poison taster amid nobility and danger.
  • Book Jacket
    Summer's Never Over
    by Darby Bozeman
    A woman revisits a Southern summer camp where a counselor's death may not have been an accident.
  • Book Jacket
    The Reimagining of Thornwood House
    by Jaleigh Johnson
    A witch and her ward discover a magical walking house and find the true meaning of home.
  • Book Jacket
    Summer of Love
    by Kerri Maher
    Three women reshape their family's Napa Valley winery after the 1967 Summer of Love.
Book
Trivia
  • Book Trivia

    Can you name the title?

    Test your book knowledge with our daily trivia challenge!

Wordplay

Solve this clue:

The C is A R

and be entered to win..

Your guide toexceptional          books

BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.