William Saroyan Writing Prize Accepting Nominations

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Two prizes of $5,000 each are given biennially for works of fiction and nonfiction. The awards, cosponsored by the Stanford University Libraries and the William Saroyan Foundation, are intended to “encourage new or emerging writers and honor the Saroyan legacy of originality, vitality, and stylistic innovation.”

Submit five copies of a novel, short story collection, or work of creative nonfiction published between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011, with a $50 entry fee. Visit the website for more information, including entry forms, contest rules, and complete guidelines. Go to: saroyanprize.stanford.edu

DEADLINE: Please note that entries must be received on or before January 31, 2012.

If you have additional questions, feel free to contact Stanford University Libraries, William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Green Library, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6004. Sonia Lee, Saroyan Prize Administrator: sonialee@stanford.edu, (650) 736-9538.

E-Book Growth Triples in Latest AAP Report

The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-books saw triple-digit percentage growth again in July 2011, compared to the same time last year, according to Moco News Net.

The AAP also reported some good news for print books. Adult hardcover sales were up 33.9 percent for July 2011 compared to July 2010. And sales of digital audiobooks are up 26.7 percent so far this year.

SEE ALSO: Over 20 Percent Of Random House U.S. Sales Are Digital. 

2012 New York Book Festival Call for Entries

NEW YORK/AUTHORLINK NEWS/October 11, 2011--The 2012 New York Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program honoring books that deserve greater recognition from the world's publishing capital.

The 2012 New York Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, fiction, children, young adult, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics/zines/graphic novels, poetry, wild card (anything goes!), unpublished stories, science fiction, horror, photography/art, romance and biography/autobiography works.

Entries can be in English, Spanish, French or Italian and must be published on or after January 1, 2006. grand prize for the 2012 New York Book Festival Author of the Year is $1,500 and a flight to New York for our awards ceremony in June, 2012 in Manhattan.
Additional information and registration forms are available online at www.newyorkbookfestival.com

2011 Book Award Finalists Announced

Book Award Finalists National Book Award Finalists Named New York, NY/October 12, 2011--The twenty Finalists for the 2011 National Book Awards were announced by past National Book Award Winners, Finalists, and Judges in front of a live audience at the new Literary Arts Center in Portland, Oregon as part of Oregon Public Broadcasting's morning radio program, Think Out Loud, and streamed live at www.opb.org/nationalbookawards.    The Winners in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature will be announced at the 62nd National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 16. Actor, writer, and musician John Lithgow will host the event. Winners receive $10,000 and a bronze statue; Finalists receive a bronze medal and $1,000. Poet John Ashbery will receive the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, to be presented by poet Ann Lauterbach. Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of the Miami Book Fair International, will receive the Foundation's Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community, to be presented by writer Walter Mosley. The invitation-only Awards Ceremony is the culminating event of National Book Awards Week. The celebration begins on November 14 with 5 Under 35, the Foundation's sixth annual invitation-only celebration of emerging fiction writers selected by National Book Award Winners and Finalists. On November 15, for the first time, the National Book Awards Teen Press Conference will be streamed live online, from Scholastic in Soho, hosted by acclaimed young adult author and Scholastic editor David Levithan. Streaming will allow students from across the country to play the role of reporters as they direct questions to the five Finalists for the National Book Award in Young People's Literature. That evening, all twenty Finalists will read from their nominated works at the National Book Award Finalists Reading at The New School. The Finalists Reading is open to the public; tickets are $10 and are available through The New School box office by calling 212-229-5488 or by emailing boxoffice@newschool.edu. For more information about the 2011 Finalists and upcoming National Book Awards Week events, visit www.nationalbook.org. Fiction  Andrew Krivak, The Sojourn Bellevue Literary Press Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife (Random House) Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House) Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books, an imprint of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington) Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (Bloomsbury USA) Nonfiction Deborah Baker, The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf Press) Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown and Company) Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (W. W. Norton & Company) Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA) Lauren Redniss, Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) Poetry  Nikky Finney, Head Off & Split  (TriQuarterly, an imprint of Northwestern University Press) Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)  Carl Phillips, Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)  Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 (W.W. Norton & Company) Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press) Young People's Literature Franny Billingsley, Chime (Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, Inc.) Debby Dahl Edwardson, My Name Is Not Easy (Marshall Cavendish)    Thanhha Lai, Inside Out and Back Again (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)    Albert Marrin, Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy (Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books)    Lauren Myracle, Shine (Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS)    Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now (Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Seeking Answers to the Mysterious: Are There Angels Among Us?

Authorlink Audio Interview With Javier Sierra

Are there human-like angels walking the earth today? New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra explores the question in his heart-pounding new thriller about modern evil, and about mankind's most ancient desire--to communicate directly with the Almighty. What motivates this passionate novelist? AUDIO interview. Read more about Javier.

Indy Publisher Book Awards Call for Entries

 
Calling all independent authors and publishers!

The 16th Independent Publisher Book Awards, conducted annually to honor the year's best independently published titles, are now accepting entries for books with 2011 or 2012 copyrights or released between November 1, 2010 and March 15, 2012. The annual contest is presented by Jenkins Group and their book marketing website, IndependentPublisher.com, headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan.

Entry fee is now just $75 to enter a National category and another $45 if you choose to enter the Regional or E-Book contests. All entrants are considered for the Outstanding Books of the Year Awards at no extra charge.

Early-bird entry fee deadline is October 15, 2011 - save $20 per National category entry.

Entry information and guidelines available online at: http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/IPAwards.php

McGraw-Hill to Announce Third Quarter Results

 
NEW YORK, Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) announced today that its third quarter 2011 results will be issued on Thursday, October 20, 2011 via news release before the start of NYSE trading. The news release will be available for downloading from http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and CEO, and Jack Callahan, Executive Vice President and CFO, will host a conference call/webcast at 8:30 AM Eastern time on October 20, 2011 to discuss the third quarter results. They will also update investors on McGraw-Hill's progress toward the Growth & Value Plan and the planned separation into two public companies. The presentation is open to all interested parties and may include forward-looking information.

Webcast Instructions: Live and Replay

The webcast will be available live and in replay through the Corporation's Investor Relations Web site at http://investor.mcgraw-hill.com/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=96562&eventID=4214014. (Please copy and paste URL into Web browser.) The archived replay will be available beginning two hours after the conclusion of the live call and will remain available for one year.

Telephone Access: Live and Replay

The call begins at 8:30 AM Eastern time. Please dial in by 8:20 AM. The passcode is "McGraw-Hill" and the conference leader is Harold McGraw III.

For callers in the U.S.: (888) 391-6568
For callers outside the U.S.: +1 (415) 228-4733 (long distance charges will apply)