Reading Copy Book Blog

Janet Evanovich, currently on a major book tour, has ‘Author’s Wrist from signing so many books reports USA Today. Incidently, you can buy a signed Janet Evanovich book on the site for less than $3 – she must sign a lot of books.

Who knew?

A first edition of Emma by Jane Austen sells for £180,000 says The Guardian.

The Guardian has an exceptionally interesting feature on writers’ rooms. Lots of messy rooms, lots of books, a few typewriters. Craig Raine’s room is shocking – he really needs a cleaning lady. JG Ballard’s is a bit weird. AL Kennedy’s is super laid back.

Victoria Hislop is back with The Return, and The Times has a few words with her

For all our Australian friends the line-up for this years Byron Bay Writers Festival (July 25-27) has been announced… as always it looks like quite the event.

At last an article jam-packed with negativity – I love these kind of features, always make me smile. The Sunday Times asked a bunch of authors, critics, and literary types about the books they detest. Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times deputy literary editor London Fields by Martin Amis Almost everything that is wrong with Amis’s [...]

I listened to this feature about Nancy Drew this morning on NPR – they never once mentioned the factory-style process behind the Nancy Drew books.

One chapter from you (press send), one chapter from me (press send). A girl from our neck of the woods, Victoria in British Columbia, has written a fantasy novel with a friend located in New York by taking it in turns to write a chapter and then collaborating on email. The writers – who met [...]

Yesterday’s Observer writes about Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Then the fever subsided – and inspiration struck. Fittest variations will survive longest and will eventually evolve into new species, he realised. Thus the theory of natural selection appeared, fever-like, in the mind of one of our greatest naturalists. Wallace wrote up his ideas and [...]