Wildbound's Weekly Breeze 5/28/20
BOOK INDUSTRY NEWS
How the Publishing Industry is Adapting to Covid-19
Listen to this conversation with NPR's Ailsa Chang and Jim Milliot of Publishers Weekly about author, publishers are faring and what's next.
Covid Creativity
If Invention is the Mother of Necessity, then perhaps Quarantine is the Father of Creativity. ABC News featured some of the most recent inventions.
Gone Virtual: Spotlight on the Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND...
In a massive pivot, the annual Bay Area Book Festival, which each spring for the past five years has filled the streets and theaters of Downtown Berkeley with hundreds of notable authors and over 25,000 readers, has launched Bay Area Book Festival #UNBOUND, a virtual series with top authors, thinkers, experts, and doers in the US and beyond, to inform, entertain, and transcend our fears about the future. Programs are for the most part, FREE, through the end of the year.
HOT BUY!
Get David Wogahn’s The Book Review Companion: An Author's Guide to Getting and Using Book Reviews for only 99 cents. The book will go up to $3.99 on June 1. Click here to buy now. Midwest Book Review says "Impressively informative, expertly organized and presented, The Book Review Companion is unreservedly recommended for author, publisher, and book publicists professional reference collections. Especially commended for community and academic library Writing/Publishing collections."
Book Trailer of the Week
This week's pick is Anonymous Is a Woman by Nina Ansary. Why it works? Because you'll cry with joy and rage.
Write on.
WILDBOUND PR