Tag: booksellers
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7 Black-Owned Bookstores to Check Out During #BlackHistoryMonth
Looking for a way to support black authors AND black bookstores during this #BlackHistory month? Here are some black-owned bookstores from around the United States. Each one has an expansive and interesting catalogue with online ordering available. Enda’s Booktique (Duncanville, Texas) Enda’s Booktique is an independent bookstore located in Duncanville (Dallas), Texas, founded by Enda Jean […]
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Theft of Unpublished Manuscripts, a Rollercoaster Year for Publishing, and more…
Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts? (New York Times) Mr. Hannaham was just one of countless targets in a mysterious international phishing scam that has been tricking writers, editors, agents and anyone in their orbit into sharing unpublished book manuscripts. It isn’t clear who the thief or thieves are, or even how […]
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A Literary Contest that Excludes Men, the Success of Indie Booksellers, and more…
A Code-Obsessed Novelist Builds a Writing Bot. The Plot Thickens (Wired) A native of India, the 58-year-old Chandra supported himself as a graduate student studying creative writing in the United States by working as a programmer. He is as comfortable with code as he is with prose, and his startup, Granthika, is a geekily sublime merger […]
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