Emily Henry's Happy Place is the top pick on the ABA's Indie Next List for May.
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London Book Fair Will Move to March
After this year’s April event, the London Book Fair will be held in March going forward. LBF changed their dates for next year after the announcement that the Bologna Children’s Book Fair would occur less than a week before their original dates. LBF will now be held March 12-14, 2024, while BCBF is April 8-11, 2024. More significantly, the change marks a standing change in London’s dates. LBF director Gareth Rapley said, “This will be a longer-term move to this period going forward, and we now are planning for LBF to be held around the same time in March from here on. […]
Windham-Campbell Prizes
Eight writers were named winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes.
Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Yiyun Li’s The Book of Goose won the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction, selected by judges Christopher Bollen, R.O. Kwon, and Tiphanie Yanique.
Future Commissions To Be Sold in Donadio & Olson Bankruptcy Auction
A bankruptcy auction for the assets of former literary agency Donadio & Olson will be held on April 19. The agency filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy in December 2018 after being defrauded by their outside bookkeeper, Darrin Webb. Bankruptcy trustee Deborah Piazza will auction off three assets: commissions, judgements, and remnant assets. Since the shutdown of the agency, publishers have paid agency commissions to the trustee, while sending royalties directly to the authors. The trustee’s lawyer, Robert A. Wolf at Tarter Krinsky & Drogin, estimates that the estate has received about $300,000 in commissions, which is used to pay legal and […]