2Leaf Press is full of surprises! Here is a sneak peak of some of our Fall books coming out in October and November 2018. It’s a fall of memoirs, personal narratives, and the publication of a literary classic. And this is just the beginning. Stay tuned.
Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA hosts New England contributors of WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? on Nov. 4th at 7 PM.
JONATHON STURGEON | FLAVORWIRE This is how the world’s best-selling novelist sells more books. Since March, we’ve heard about a forthcoming publishing venture from James Patterson, the best-selling novelist of the age. “To date,” writes the New York Times, “[Patterson] has published 156 books that have sold more than 325 million copies worldwide.” Or, rather, […]
Wired, the San Francisco, Calif.-based magazine and digital publication, has launched a book club as a part of its expanding culture coverage. Its first selection is N.K. Jemisin’s Hugo Award-nominated The Fifth Season
From unfriend to selfie, social media is clearly having an impact on language. As someone who writes about social media I’m aware of not only how fast these online platforms change, but also of how they influence the language in which I write.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE WHITE IN AMERICA? contributors in Portland Oregon (calling themselves the “Northwest Group,” see their Facebook page), consisting of Patrik McDade, Anne Mavor, Leah Mueller, Jan Priddy, Carol Weliky, and Tereza Topferova Bottmanare participating in Portland Community College’s first “Whiteness History Month” where people come together to talk about white privilege, […]
ALICE JONES | THE INDEPENDENT Books are back. If you are staring at a pile of freshly unwrapped sporting autobiographies and clean eating guides, this may not come as a surprise. Everyone buys books at Christmas; but in 2015, people have been buying them for the other 11 months of the year too, with the […]
2Leaf Press’s books are now available on Scribd, an ebook subscription service, joining the ranks of over 1,000 publishers, which include HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Harlequin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Workman, Lonely Planet, Perseus Book Group and Wiley. Readers can either purchase books outright, or sign up and pay a monthly fee to access […]
All across Argentina’s capital, lodged between the steakhouses, ice cream shops and pizzerias, is an abundance of something that is becoming scarce in many nations: bookstores. From hole-in-the-wall joints with used copies of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Miguel de Cervantes and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to elegant buildings with the latest children’s books in several […]
Author Vanessa Mártir explores the importance of diverse writers of color in the publishing industry and why their voice matters.
ALAN RINZLER | THE BOOK DEAL | DECEMBER 2014 THE TIRED OLD STEREOTYPE of a mystery writer as some hard-boiled noir guy with a cigarette in one hand and a tumbler full of whiskey in the other is obsolete. Over. Done. Make way for Sisters in Crime, a nationwide organization of women mystery writers who […]
The Library of America, a non-profit publisher has decided that Elmore Leonard deserves to sit on the shelf beside Herman Melville, Flannery O’Connor, Mark Twain and the rest.
he Writers’ Trust of Canada announced the finalists for two major prizes for excellence in Canadian fiction: the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Writers’ Trust/McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize.