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Tarantino films as Penguin-style book covers.
Back from the dead and taking selfies: classic authors on Instagram.
Hot on the news of their Goodreads acquisition, Amazon announces they have purchased English.
Listen to Helen Trinca discuss her new biography of Madeleine St John on ABC Classic FM.
12 non-Amazon-owned alternatives to Goodreads.
Look around your current writing workshop. Look right and left. Most of those people will stop writing.
Suddenly, it seems like gay characters are everywhere in YA literature. Or, if not everywhere, certainly in far more places and in a greater variety than ever before. On the state of LGBT characters in young adult fiction. (Read more
The Wheeler Centre interviewed Helen Trinca, author of Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John.
Author Matt Haig on why authors should embrace Twitter. (Related: the 10 most prolific authors on Twitter.
Read about this amazing graffiti portrait of Raimond Gaita and the process of its creation.
The Californian Department of Education released a list of recommended reading that included some LGBT-themed books; what you’d expect to happen, happened.
Oscar Wilde’s advice to writers: don’t give up your day job.
Matt Haig, author of The Radleys, lists 30 things every writer should know.
25 turns, pivots and twists to complicate your story. (Warning: there be swears.
The longlist for the 2013 Miles Franklin Literary Award has just been announced, and we’re delighted that Romy Ash’s debut novel, Floundering, is in the running to win this $60,000 prize.
The Childhood of Jesus is April’s Monthly Book over at the Monthly and Ramona Koval has prepared notes. Read a great review by Peter Craven of J. M.
