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The Bookish Roundup: Week 12 2012

Each week we will be scouring the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we will put them into a nice list for you. That's it, really.

This Week...

Novelicious launches its new Literary Agent series, What An Agent Wants

 

Miranda Dickinson Video Blogs the RoNAs

HarperCollins UK reveals a brand new saucy imprint

 

A book that smells...of farts?

 

Sarah Duncan writes a five-part series on 'How To Edit'

 

Flavorwire creates a fantasy list of authors they'd love to see on reality shows

 

Curtis Brown's own Jonny Geller writes 'An Agent's Manifesto'

 

Marian Keyes joins Twitter (hurrah!)

 

Do let us know on our facebook or twitter of any interesting book news you think we should share in next week's bookish roundup!

The Bookish Roundup: Week 10 2012

Each week we will be scouring the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we will put them into a nice list for you. That's it, really.

This Week...

It was announced that Pottermore will be available to everyone come April

 

The RoNA 2012 winners were declared

 

Omnivoracious showed us their book trailers of the month

 

The 2012 Orange Prize longlist was revealed

 

Irish Independent asked if the Chick Lit train is running out of steam

 

Bookbuzzr talked about using Mind Maps when writing

Spoken Word Poet, Mark Grist, disussed Girls Who Read

 

Century and Arrow signed Katie Fforde for a further four books

The Bookish Roundup: Week 5 2012

Each week we scour the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we put them into an nice list for you.

That's it, really.

This Week...

There was a new Hunger Games Trailer

 

The Book Deal Blog wrote about crossing genres

 

Penguin released an app based on Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way

 

Chick Lit Central had a chat to Kristin Hannah

 

Jonathan Franzen got a bit weird about ereaders

 

Ryan Gosling Lit Agent joined Twitter

 

Katie Fforde got a gorgeous website makeover

 

Do let us know on our facebook or twitter of any interesting book news you think we should share in next week's bookish roundup!

The Bookish Roundup: Week 4 2012

Each week we scour the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we put them into an nice list for you.

That's it, really.

This Week...

Andrew Miller wins Costa Book of the Year

 

City of Fallen Angels is named as the most quoted book of 2011

 

Shiloh Walker confirms that each time a bad review is written, a pink fluffy unicorn dies

 

Flavorwire shows us the best literary themed graffiti ever

 

Jenny Colgan writes a Doctor Who book

Writer's Digest gives us 4 tips for creating believable villains

Piatkus announces their new digital romance list, Entice

 

Do let us know on our facebook or twitter of any interesting book news you think we should share in next week's bookish roundup!

The Bookish Roundup: Week 3 2012

Each week we will be scouring the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we will put them into a nice list for you. That's it, really.

This Week...

Jennifer Weiner wrote about gender balance in the New York Times' fiction coverage

You could get your face on the cover of Stephen King's next book

 

The One More Page blog did a list of 10 Chick Lit titles to look forward to in 2012

 

Waterstones dropped the apostrophe

The Book Deal blog discussed great book cover design

 

Apple unveiled their self publishing app

 

Simon & Schuster announced the release of Jackie Collins' backlist in e-book format

 

Writer's Digest gave us 8 tips for making the most of our writing time

 

If you know of any news or interesting web stuff we should post on next week's bookish round up let us know on our facebook page!

The Bookish Roundup: Week 1 2012

Each week we will be scouring the internets for the most interesting or helpful book and writing related stories of the week. Then every Friday we will put them into a nice list for you. That's it, really.

This Week...

Jojo Moyes's Next Book was chosen as a Richard and Judy read

The Costa Book Awards Category Winners were announced

Omnivoracious' 25 Writing Excercises to Hone Your Craft

Sheknows.com unveiled their new Book Lounge

 

Amazon Publishing announced their book deal with James Franco

 

Some dude has published a shower curtain

 

Copyblogger did a list of 10 Terrific Creative Writing Blogs

 

Chick Lit Reviews and News interviewed Ella Kingsley

 

Author Colette Caddle signed a two-book deal with Simon and Schuster

 

Book Dirt shows us 10 truly bizarre calenders for 2012

 

If you know of any news or interesting web stuff we should post on next week's bookish round up let us know on our facebook page!