Tag: publishing

• Publishing House Seals Deal with Marvel, Understanding the ‘Slush Pile’…

  

  What really happens to manuscripts sent to publishers? (ABC Online) In recent years the cobweb-draped tower of manuscripts tottering in the cleaning cupboard of a publishing house has been replaced with an electronic file on somebody’s hard drive. The slush pile, however, is not on the way out. Increasingly, it’s an avenue for emerging writers who…

  Berneta L. Haynes

  October 20, 2016

  News and Editorials

  Bangladesh, Comics, Featured, Genre Fiction, Marvel, publishing

• ‘Woke’ Authors, Diversity in Children’s Books, and Changing IP Rules in Oz…

  Why ‘woke’ is no joke (Times Live) Black female authors are the next big thing in South African publishing, a development publisher says follows the “woke” trend. According to Jacana Media’s assistant publisher Sibongile Machika, both authors and readers are more “woke” – a colloquial term that refers to a state of social and political awareness used…

  Berneta L. Haynes

  September 15, 2016

  News and Editorials

  Asia, Australia, Black Women Authors, Children’s Books, diversity, Featured, India, Intellectual Property, publishing

• Black Superheroes, Lack of Diversity in Children’s Books, and Publishing…

  

  The Expanding Empire of a Literary Agent (Swara Jya Magazine)

  Berneta L. Haynes

  September 1, 2016

  News and Editorials

  blackcomics, childrensbooks, Featured, literaryagents, News, publishing