HarperCollins is launching Heartdrum, an imprint publishing books by Native creators in 2021.
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2020 Children’s Book Week will be May 4 to 10, continuing its mission to engage booksellers, librarians, and educators with special events, programming resources, and more. Sign-ups for the spring 2020 celebration have already begun. Interested schools, libraries, and bookstores can register online. Registration closes at the end of February. Locations that are unable to participate next spring can stay tuned for further details regarding the fall celebration, which is scheduled for November 9 to 15.
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Equinox Books is now open for submissions.
Equinox Books is a traditional small press looking for compelling stories in genre fiction: fantasy, mystery, romance, sci-fi, suspense, thriller. We want it all. We’re especially looking for books to live in. You know, those books on your shelf with the cracked spine, the notes in the margin, the tabbed pages, well-loved and well-read. Accepting both agented and unagented manuscripts. www.authors.equinoxbooks.com
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Swamped for the holidays? Too much to do? Read how Jessica Faust of Bookends Literary Agency is taking a break—and not feeling guilty about it. http://bookendsliterary.com/2019/11/20/breaks-are-part-of-the-process/
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B&N cuts freelance writers from its teen and SFF blogs. On November 15, freelance writers for Barnes & Noble’s Teen and Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blogs tweeted the news that they had been let go.
