Some of you may be familiar with the following lines: “To be or not to be — ay, there’s the point. To die, to sleep — is… Read more “Hamlet and the importance of a good edit”

One of the greatest literary weeks of the year is looming so, for anyone interested in books and writing, the place to be from the 1st to… Read more “Listowel Writers’ Week – Competition Deadlines”

The Irish book trade has bounded into action like a spring lamb, drunk on the glory of the winter sun, the simple joy of being alive, and… Read more “Irish book sales increase in January”

  Jennifer Pedroza, one of the four founders of The Writers’ Coffee Shop, has been awarded a judgement of $11.5 million, judged to be the proportion of… Read more “$11.5 Million Shades of Grey”

Gill & Macmillan, who had a romper stomper of a year in 2015 (albeit without any of the Neo Nazi Australian violence), emerged at year end as… Read more “Gill & Macmillan changes name for 2016”

Did we tell you we were in The Irish Times? On the slim off-chance that we didn’t, we will casually leave the article here, where you can… Read more “Carrowmore in The Irish Times”

Gretchen Young, of Grand Central Publishing, has acquired the rights to Caitlyn Jenner’s as-yet-untitled memoir. Jenner will collaborate on the project with Buzz Bissinger, according to Publisher’s… Read more “Caitlyn Jenner in book deal with Grand Central Publishing”

On Friday 4 December 2015, The Bookseller, the UK and Ireland’s primary source of news for all things publishing related, hosted the FutureBook Conference 2015. The conference… Read more “Carrowmore in The Bookseller – Futurebook 2015”

In the early days of Carrowmore, we spoke to a large number of new authors. The idea was to find out what they wanted to know more… Read more “The Book Pitch”

A debut novel by Bill Beverly entitled Dodgers has been acquired by No Exit Press in advance of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The novel, described in The… Read more “‘Dodgers’ sold to No Exit Press”