INDUSTRY NEWS

Highlands Announces Sales Partnership with Sanni Bin

9 JULY 2024

London, UK (4 July, 2024) – Highlands is pleased to announce it is now representing Sanni Bin. Based in Ireland, Sanni Bin is an eco-friendly, fully sustainable, flat-pack solution that is poised to revolutionise feminine hygiene sanitary waste disposal. Highlands will serve as Sanni Bin’s sales agency to help take this exciting new brand to market across Europe. 

Freeman Brandon Millan to Produce Alexander Payne’s Documentary Directorial Debut

5 JULY 2024

On the heels of The Holdovers, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne has found his next project ,the story of Jeanine Basinger, "a supernova in the firmament of cinema" and it will mark the esteemed filmmaker’s documentary directorial debut. Brandon Millan is set to produce with New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson. (Their publishing shingle, Felix Farmer Press, will also release an updated version of Basinger’s classic 1994 book American Cinema under the new title I, The Audience.) They told The Hollywood Reporter, “We are so excited to help the greatest filmmaker of his generation tell the story of the greatest film historian of hers.”

Freeman Christy Burdock wins 2024 Judd Medical Third Prize Royal Birmingham Society of Artists

4 JULY 2024

Christy Burdock has just completed a residency researching hill farmers in a remote part of England by the borders, rural Northumberland, one of her pieces has just won third prize in the RBSA  2024 Portrait Prize Exhibition

Freeman Derwin Mak publishes new science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story book.

3 JULY 2024

From distant stars to a Cocoa Beach Hooters, Derwin Mak's short fiction takes readers through tales of mystery, wonder, and horror. Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan's very own android kami.

Foreword by Liana Kerzner, award-winning comedy writer and co-editor of Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen

Published by Brain Lag Books of Milton, Ontario, Canada

Ingram Content Group will be hosting a webinar

2 JULY 2024

On 10 July, Ingram Content Group will be hosting a webinar called "Path to eBook accessibility" featuring Liveryman Tyler M. Carey (Westchester Publishing Services), Cathy Felgar (Princeton University Press), Michael Johnson (Benetech), and Richard Orme (DAISY).

ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2024 Finalists Revealed

1 JULY 2024

ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, is delighted to confirm the finalists shortlisted for:

• The ALPSP Impact Award, which recognizes initiatives, projects, campaigns or collaborations demonstrating beneficial impact within scholarly publishing and communications.
• The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, which celebrates any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.

The Impact and Award and Innovation in Publishing Award 2024 are sponsored by PA Editorial. 

Liveryman Simon Trewin author Paul Lynch's novel to be translated into it's 35th language

1 JULY 2024

Literary Agent and Liveryman Simon Trewin’s author Paul Lynch, whose novel ‘Prophet Song' won the world’s most influential literary prize - The Booker Prize for Fiction - in November - has just signed contracts for the novel to be translated into its’ 35th language.

Midas Announces Liveryman George Walkley as Non-Executive Chair

28 JUNE 2024

Independent books, arts and culture communications agency, Midas, has today announced that George Walkley has accepted the position of Non-Executive Chair.

Survey - Calling all Libraries and Book Publishers

27 JUNE 2024

Calling all libraries and book publishers!

Would you like to help learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist book publishers make a successful transition to sustainable open access models? If so, we would very much appreciate your responses to:

Freeman Graham Thomas launches TheNeverPress Publishing House

26 JUNE 2024

TheNeverPress is an up-and-coming independent London-based publishing house specialising in magical-realist fiction, poetry and narrative audio. And they also produce a podcast about movies and racehorses. All of it curiously off-beat.   

Rebel Stationery launches stunning textiles for their new stationery range

26 JUNE 2024

Freemen Annie Couldrey, Bex Newell and George Thompson of Rebel Stationery are launching a stunning new collection of notebooks and diaries using textiles woven for them by women in Quechua in the Peruvian Andes. They are partnering with Awamaki, a charity who support the communities who make these textiles, to ensure funds go directly back to the weavers.

The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) celebrates its 75th anniversary and launches a reverse-mentoring initiative.

25 JUNE 2024

The Society of Young Publishers (SYP) is celebrating its 75th anniversary with summer parties across the UK and Ireland, a bumper issue of the society’s InPrint magazine, and a brand-new reverse-mentoring scheme entitled SYP Bridges.