JRR Tolkien falls off children’s most popular books list (The Guardian)
Annual What Kids Are Reading report sees dystopian fantasy and larger-than-life comedies dominate, with John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars the most popular title in secondary schools and David Walliams’s Demon Dentist the favourite book of primary schoolchildren.
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Barnes & Noble Crawls Into Bed with Author Solutions (Ink, Bits & Pixels)
David Gaughran just posted a screenshot of the agreement between B&N and its writers using the service.
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10 Bookish YouTube Tutorials (Book Riot)
Feeling the itch to get your craft on, or just want to change up your routine? Get some inspiration from the many awesome people of YouTube who come up with wonderful how-tos that both feed your creative needs and play to your bookish interests.
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Children’s Books Authors Protest Against Assigning Genders to Books (GalleyCat)
Forman explained that they were protesting against the act of driving young boys away from titles that are considered to be “girl books.”
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Kindle Daily Deal: Electing to Murder (and others)
Speaking of Author Solutions, “Writer Beware,” has an article on it losing its market share.
http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2015/03/author-solutions-inc-losing-market.html
If you are a working writer, I definitely recommend you subscribe to “Writer Beware’s” feed to keep up with the various scams aimed at writers.