It was a rather busy week in publishing news:
Rebecca Godfrey took home the second annual British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The award was presented last Friday afternoon for her book Under the Bridge: The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk (HarperCollins Canada). The $25,000 award was presented by the British Columbia Achievement Foundation at a Vancouver luncheon attended by writers, publishers, members of the literary community, and Premier Gordon Campbell.
More on Rebecca Godfrey and the BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
The Scotsman reported on Monday, 29 May, that the world’s first audio-only novel is being launched this week, aimed at iPod and MP3 users. Brian Luff’s Sex on Legs is a sci-fi thriller. The novel is published by Audible.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=796482006
Lost novel has found its way to bestseller lists. The Book Standard reports that Bad Twin sold 5,000 copies in its debut week putting it at 98 on the Nielsen BookScan chart.
http://www.readersread.com/cgi-bin/bookblog.pl?bblog=510061
Salon.com has a story on ex-nun Karen Armstrong. It’s Da Vinci Code time. As an ex-nun, Armstrong’s writings resonate with people who’ve fallen out with organized religion. Armstrong argues that sacred texts yield profound insights if we read them as myth and poetry.
http://feeds.salon.com/salon/index?m=285