Given the number of e-books being read on iPhones and iPads and other such Apple devices, Apple’s relationship with Chinese readers is no longer a matter of of purely academic interest to self-publishers. There’s a good piece in today’s Huffinton Post regarding Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook’s recent apology to Chinese consumers. Writers of e-books are in the hands of some very large slavering beasts these days when it comes to territory and availability.
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Royal Ballet
A new book by the injured ballet dancer Andrej Uspenski Dancers, published by Oberon Books, gives an unusually informal record of ballet dancers behind the scenes. For those of use who like dancing but are overawed by the professionals, it’s good to see their human side. There’s a good review by Jane Shilling in the Telegraph.
Fay Kanin
Fay Kanin
Fay Kanin the Hollywood writer, died 27 March 2013, was blacklisted by House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s. There’s an excellent obituary by Ronald Bergen in the Guardian.
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Self Publishing, the first Five Thousand Years
Self Publishing
A Short History, from the Ten Commandments to Kindle E-Books
Why do some people get to speak and others only to listen? Who controls the written word? On Friday 22 February at 2.00 pm, at the Castle Hotel Bishop’s Castle, Bob Fowke will be tracing the history of self-publishing (and publishing) from the Word of God to Kindle E-books, with a sideways swipe at censorship through the ages, the Inquisition, Louis XIV, intellectual snobbery and Rupert Murdoch. From King Enmebaragesi of Sumeria to Mark Twain via Daniel Defoe, no stone is left unturned – well, quite a lot of them since he’s only got an hour.
The Jewel of Barthimia, Athena’s Descendants
The Jewel of Barthimia, Athena’s Descendants
Some of us are born slow and some of us are born precocious and there can be no doubt which side of the scale Callum Epsley Clegg was born on. It has been a real pleasure to help him with his first novel The Jewel of Barthimia, a 70,000-word tale of young people and ancient Greek gods. Callum is thirteen years old.
Self-Publishing Liverpool
YouCaxton are publishers of quality books. We also provide a full range of services to authors wishing to self-publish including, editorial, design, marketing and distribution. We work closely with authors to achieve critical and literary success focusing on good writing and careful research.
We are planning to hold a self-publishing workshop in Liverpool later this year (cost £25). Please contact us for further details.
Sport and Literature
Sport and Literature
The fifth YouCaxton Self-Publishing Literary Lecture ‘Writing the Game: Sport in Fiction’ will take place in the YouCaxton shop on 26 February at 6.30 pm. Jeff Hill, Emeritus Professor of History at De Montfort University, takes a particular interest in 19th and 20th century history with an emphasis on social/cultural developments in leisure. (He is currently working on a book on British popular politics and popular culture c.1880-1930s.) His chief interest in fictional literature is in its value as a source to the historian and his approach is that of an historian rather a literary critic.
We are used, nowadays, to sport on television, Jeff Hill asks if it can inspire decent literature – or should it be booted into touch because it’s too frivolous and superficial? And why has sport figured more in American creative writing than in British? Jeff Hill raises these and similar questions with reference to the work of Philip Roth, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, David Storey, Joseph O’Neill and other contemporary novelists – seeing their work as both literature and as historical source material.
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