May 11, 2017

Due to the aois21 birthday extravaganza taking up much of Keith's time, there will not be an episode this week. Please enjoy the news list for this week.

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• A Museum of the Bible meant to appeal to all religions
• George R. R. Martin Doesn’t Need to Finish Writing the Game of Thrones Books
• Reading books is a major key to success. Here’s how you make it a habit
• An Alternative To Book Burning – What To Do If You Want Nothing To Do With Secret Empire
• Two New Digital Collections Available Online From Library of Congress, New Online Exhibition Also Available
• George Orwell’s Spanish civil war memoir is a classic, but is it bad history?
• Milo Socks Publisher With $10 Million Lawsuit Over Pedophilia Book Flap
• Send a raven! HBO hires writers to develop Game of Thrones spin-offs
• Libraries to Extend Loan Periods, Eliminate Standard Late Fees
• Andrew Davies to adapt A Suitable Boy for BBC1
• LITERARY TOURISM: PORTLAND, MAINE
• Thomas Pynchon at 80 – eight reasons to celebrate his birthday
• Bill Clinton And James Patterson Are Writing A Novel Together
• Here are the Nibbies: The British Books Awards 2017
• An Everyman Museum to Celebrate American Writers
• Milestones: Portico Archive Passes 400 Terabytes of Preserved Data
• Gabriel García Márquez: working magic with 'brick-faced' realism
• CULTURE VS. NURTURE: WHEN FAMILY HIERARCHY INFORMS FICTION
• New York’s librarians are working to keep kids reading, even when they can’t afford to pay their fines
• Do ad buyers have a moral obligation to save media?
• SoA concerns over Amazon Marketplace trading
• Internet Archive Preserves More than 200 Terabytes of US Government Data During “End of Term Web Archive” Project
• STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS ON WRITING HARD TIMES IN SMALL TOWNS
• An Old Story
• Fake news about Agatha Christie is nothing new, but it's not drying up
• Bookseller Suing California Over 'Autograph Law'
• A L Kennedy blasts publishers for attitude towards translated literature
• Have you experienced a gender gap working in publishing?
• People Don’t Trust Scientific Research When Companies Are Involved
• HILLARY CLINTON WILL BE AT BOOK EXPO AMERICA
• WHY I FOUNDED AN INTERDISCIPLINARY RETREAT FOR ARTISTS AND WRITERS
• Toronto's radical librarians critique Little Free Library
• PA calls for political parties to abolish tax on e-books
• ATTENDING A LITERARY AWARD CEREMONY HELD IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE
• Minnesota: Parents in New London-Spicer School District Want Sherman Alexie’s “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” Removed From Curriculum
• Kamal Al-Solaylee wins Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone)
• UNPOPULAR OPINION: I’D LIKE FEWER BOOKS FROM MY FAVORITE AUTHORS, PLEASE
• American Gods on television couldn’t be more timely
• 13 Little-Known Punctuation Marks to Try
• aois21 publishing is now aois21 media
• Four libraries in South Tyneside under threat
• The six best independent bookstores in South Africa
• Richard Dawkins: ‘Why not have a Dáil prayer to the fairies?’
• Lord of the Rings Backstory to Be Performed in Moscow Metro - in Elvish
• With poetry and a pen name
• Story of two star-crossed lovers
• Two Open Access Repositories Launched in Myanmar
• So you want to be a writer? Essential tips for aspiring novelists

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April 8, 2017

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Bob Dylan Will (Finally) Collect his Nobel Prize for Literature
• Ahmed Naji on his wait to hear if Egyptian court will clear him to write again
• History: Four New Digital Collections Available Online From the Library of Congress
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SET YOUR NOVEL  AT HARVARD?
• Did Vladimir Nabokov Write the Great Refugee Novel?
• Norway Gets a New Doomsday Vault That Stores Data
• Louise Dean launches 90-day writers' community
• Revealed: Self-styled 'grammar vigilante' corrects badly punctuated shop signs in dead of night
• Novels By Former Builder, Magistrate, And Bbc Journalist Longlisted For 10th Anniversary Desmond Elliott Prize
• The Illustrated Prague Haggadah That Survived 500 Years, Scanned, Digitized, and Now Online From National Library of Israel
• WHY LITERATURE AND POP CULTURE STILL CAN’T GET THE MIDWEST RIGHT
• The literary tomboy is dead – or is she?
• George Takei Is Writing a Graphic Novel About His Family’s Experience in a Japanese Internment Camp
• Bernie Sanders joins 30th Hay Festival line-up
• INDIA’S NATIONALIST ASSAULT ON INTELLECTUALS AND STUDENTS
• Academic Libraries: ITHAKA S+R Releases “US Library Survey 2016″ Report
• How James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time still lights the way towards equality
• I’m a writer, but my autistic child can barely speak
• Webby Awards 2017 nominees include Stranger Things, Jimmy Fallon, Game of Thrones
• Axel Alonso and David Gabriel Say Marvel “Changed Too Many Characters,” Publisher “Is Not About Politics”
• Angry Scheffler slams Brexit’s effect on arts
• Acquisitions: The Joffrey Ballet’s Archive Donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• 50 FICTIONAL DAYS IMMORTALIZED  IN LITERATURE
• 20 FANTASTIC EDIBLE BOOKS FROM THE WORLD’S BIGGEST EDIBLE BOOK FESTIVAL
• Amazon Books to descend on New York like a swarm of locusts
• How New York magazine is growing commerce revenue
• Kobo acquires e-book and print bundling service Shelfie
• HighWire and Hypothesis partner to bring annotation to publishers
• Do two unpublished books make you a failed author? No, you're a quitter
• THE LONGEST WINTER: OR WHY IT TOOK ME 15 YEARS TO FINISH MY NOVEL
• Hemingway in Love
• Scientists Create a Wheel of Old Book Smells
• Don’t say divorce, say special relationship: the thorny language of Brexit
• Ebooks usage 2016: a glance at the figures
• 29 Academic Publishers, Wikimedia Foundation, DataCite, and MANY Others Launch “Initiative for Open Citations”
• THE WEEK IN LITERARY FILM AND TV NEWS
• The Language of Poets: 10 Notable Forms
• America’s unhealthy obsession with productivity is driving its biggest new reading trend
• Japanese handbook on maternal and child health made into app for Palestinian refugees in Jordan
• How a New Law Is Making It Difficult for Russia’s Aggregators to Tell What's New(s)
• “Handle history with care – it might come back to bite you”: Stephen Coan on Tribing and Untribing the Archive
• Joan Nathan’s New Book Ties Biblical Cooking to the World of Today
• Punctuation that failed to make the mark

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February 18, 2017

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• Dominican Newspaper Understandably Uses Photo Of Alec Baldwin As Donald Trump On SNL Instead Of Actual Trump
• Wikipedia’s Daily Mail Ban Is a Welcome Rebuke to Terrible Journalism
• Trade hails Waterstones Children's Book of the Month impact
• Former lover of the poet known as Iran's Sylvia Plath breaks his silence
• Minnesota: Sound Recording Booth Opens Inside Rochester Public Library
• LITERARY TOURISM: CAIRO FOR BOOK LOVERS
• A RUNNING LIST OF GOOD BOOKS THAT ARE SELLING MORE COPIES BECAUSE OF TRUMP
• Big Green Bookshop tweets entire Harry Potter book to Piers Morgan
• Here Are Your 2017 Grammy Winners
• Hi-tech library project spawns book promoting 'new ways to work with readers'
• The seductive allure of romance novels
• WHAT REMAINS WHEN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE FADES AWAY
• #SHEPERSISTED BOOKS: 4 WOMEN IN HISTORY WHO NEVER GAVE UP
• China continues its crackdown on publishers of political gossip with two new arrests
• Multi-million pound heist sparks 'disbelief' in antiquarian book community
• Flying Blind: Truth, Journalism, and the Digital Age
• David Cay Johnston: 'Publishers assumed Trump would soon disappear'
• 10 GORGEOUS LIBRARIES WITH GARDENS
• Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust
• Amazon is thinking about dropping parcels out of the sky
• Obioma's The Fishermen to hit the stage
• MY JOB WRITING CUSTOM EROTIC LOVE LETTERS
• Open Access Publishing: AAAS and Gates Foundation Announce Partnership to Expand Access to Research
• IF FALLING IN LOVE WITH PEOPLE WERE LIKE FALLING IN LOVE WITH BOOKS
• Bookstores Stoke Trump Resistance With Action, Not Just Words
• Benedict Cumberbatch to produce and star in BBC adaptation of Ian McEwan novel The Child in Time
• Official secrets proposals are threat to publishers
• Russia's 'Big Brother' Law Facing Delays
• How The Economist turns social visitors into subscribers
• National Archives (NARA) Releases 2016 Version of “Guidance on Presidential Records” Document
• Bill To Make U.S. Copyright Office a Legislative Branch Agency Sent to House Judiciary Committee
• Bruce Springsteen helps S&S UK profits increase
• “Are We Alone in the Universe?” Winston Churchill’s Lost Extraterrestrial Essay Says No
• READER, I IMPEACHED HIM
• Imagine American Literature Without Immigrants
• Individuals, organizations honored for promoting reading
• The 2017 Stephen Spender prize – a callout for poetry translators
• Divergent author Veronica Roth returns with new novel Carve the Mark
• Can booksellers combat loneliness?
• A final note from Kafka, a trove of manuscripts, and a trial that left an Israeli heiress 'destitute'
• Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language?

Now for the New York Times Bestseller List, Sales for the week ending February 4th

Combined Print & Ebook Fiction

1. Echoes in Death by J.D. Robb
2. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Hardcover Fiction

1. Norse Mythology
2. Echoes in Death

Paperback Trade Fiction

1. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
2. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

Combined Print & Ebook Nonfiction

1. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
2. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy
2. Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Hidden Figures
2. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Young Adult Hardcover

1. Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth
2. Caraval by Stephanie Garber

And now for the home report

This past week, we announced that the aois21 podcast network will now be available on Tune In. Each podcast series has now be posted to the network and you can listen to every minute at your leisure. Visit tunein.com and search for the aois21 podcasts today.

The preorder of The Will of the Magi, the fantasy epic by Paul Dickinson Russell continues on Indiegogo. After the successful crowdfunding campaign, we have transitioned to be an InDemand project and you will be able to preorder the book right up until it is released this summer. Visit indiegogo.com today and search for The Will of the Magi.

On Tuesday, the next edition of the Creative Speaking video series was released.  This month we featured part 3 of James D. King’s author interview. The author of the HIVE sci-fi series will be discussing his influences. Find Creative Speaking on the aois21 YouTube channel and media.aois21.com.

On Wednesday, the next episode of the Sexed Vexed Perplexed with the Modern Whore podcast was released. Host Aylin Vega discussing situations that have gone weird, specifically voyeur pets. This podcast is available every other Wednesday on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, GooglePlay and media.aois21.com, and Thursdays on WDLSradio.net

On Thursday night, Aylin Vega’s Sexed Vexed Perplexed was on WDLS internet radio, at www.wdlsradio.net.

The next edition of Tales From the Old New Land has been delayed due to technical issues. The podcast will return shortly on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, and media.aois21.com.

In the week ahead, we will discuss an upcoming project for an aois21 Creative. Sign up for the weekly email on aois21.com or Facebook.com/aois21 to find out first.

On Tuesday, it is the 21st and the ePress21 webinar, “Are you ready to self publish?” will be held at 8 pm Eastern time.

Following the ePress21 webinar, it’s ask aois21 on the 21st, your monthly opportunity to ask questions of publisher Keith F. Shovlin. Find it at 8:30 pm eastern on YouTube and Periscope.

On Thursday night, find Sexed Vexed Perplexed on WDLS Internet Radio at www.WDLSradio.net. The next live episode will be on February 23rd.

Literally This Week is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com.

For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter.

You can now support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon.

If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.

January 15, 2017

1. Due to technical difficulties with the production of Tales From the Old New Land, there will not be an episode of Literally This Week this week.

Here is the top literary news of the week:

• *Ohio Public Libraries “Trying to Head Off More Funding Cuts”
• The Bookseller unites trade and book awards
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's race swapping shows the limitations of white writers tackling black perspectives
• BOOKSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY: NOTABLE CUSTOMERS, ILLUSTRATED
• Essential reading: nine experts on the books that inspired them
• A LITERARY TOUR OF LEWES, UK
• *Golden Globes 2017: Complete list of winners
• TV series adapted from hit fantasy novel to air at end of month
• German booksellers end 2016 on positive note
• UMass Medical School Library Fellow Receives Funding to Study Use of Graphic Novels to Improve Medical Literacy
• Stop Using the Phrase Creative Writing
• The Internet Archive launches a Trump-only trove of TV clips
• Khorsandi withdrew from Jhalak Prize for fear of 'alienating' audience
• hoopla digital Boosts Library to 600,000 Titles
• Nat Hentoff, Journalist and Social Commentator, Dies at 91
• HOW NOT BEING CATALOGED MADE MY BOOKSTORE BETTER
• A LITERARY FEUD IS AFOOT!
• Committee to Protect Journalists agrees, 2016 was a terrible, terrible year
• Apprenticeships offered to write for Zombies, Run! game
• WRITERS RESIST: AN ANTI-INAUGURATION ON MLK’S BIRTHDAY
• All types of adult fiction books decreased in sales last year — except for this one
• New Jersey’s Monmouth University Named the Official Archival Center for Bruce Springsteen’s Works and Memorabilia
• University of Delaware Library now member of Open Textbook Network
• I’M READING ALL OF SHAKESPEARE IN ONE YEAR. MAYBE.
• SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN ON REVEALING DARKNESS THROUGH FICTION
• UNIVERSITY AS AN INTELLECTUAL ASYLUM
• William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, dies at 89
• Turning the page, bookworms find solace
• Russian Police Have Blocked 1,200 Websites Since 2014
• 37 years after retelling Mahabharata , Bhyrappa now explores Ramayana
• Jane Austen at 200: still a friend and a stranger

For the New York Times Bestseller List, Sales for the week ending Jan 7th

Combined Print & Ebook Fiction

1. The Mistress by Danielle Steel

2. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Mistress

2. Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks

eBook Fiction

1. Below the Belt by Stuart Woods

2. The Mistress

Paperback Trade Fiction

1. A Dog’s Purpose

2. A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Paperback Mass Market Fiction

1. Sweet Tomorrows by Debbie Macomber

2. The Murder House by James Patterson and David Ellis

Combined Print & eBook Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance

2. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Hillbilly Elegy

2. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

Paperback Nonfiction

1. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

2. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Ebook Nonfiction

1. The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

2. Hillbilly Elegy

Young Adult eBook

1. Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

2. The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Young Adult Hardcover

1. Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken
2. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

Young Adult Paperback

1. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
2. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

And now for the home report

This past week, we announced that Will This Be on the Final? by Bianca Palmisano was the aois21 bestseller for December 2016. Additionally James D. King was the bestselling author for 2016 and his book HIVE: First Contact was the bestselling title for the year at aois21. Sign up for the weekly email at aois21.com and Facebook.com/aois21 to stay ahead of the news!

We continued the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for Paul Dickinson Russell’s fantasy epic The Will of the Magi which has reached its ultimate goal of $1,600. The campaign will help Paul cover the editing and design costs for his book and hopefully also cover production and advertising costs as well. Visit the Publish Me! page on media.aois21.com or igg.me/at/aois21. Here are contributors from this week that helped put us over the top:

On Thursday night the Sexed Vexed Perplexed podcast was replayed on WDLS Internet Radio. The Modern Whore, Aylin Vega, will be appearing weekly, Thursday nights at 10 ET, with a live episode coming up January 26th. Visit www.wdlsradio.net or news.aois21.com for more information

Due to illness and production delays, the Creative Speaking video series and Tales From the Old New Land podcast will be released shortly.

In the week ahead, we will be releasing the cover art for an upcoming aois21 title and launching the preorder campaign.

We will continue the Indiegogo campaign for Paul Dickinson Russell’s fantasy epic The Will of the Magi. We will making updates throughout the week and may release additional Footnote episodes of the Publish Me! podcast as big news happens, including the week in review on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the next episode of Passion on the Page will be released. aois21 Creative and poet Michael B. Judkins will be reading his final entry for the series. The poem “I Stand” is from his collection Interlude to Sentimental Me! Find the Passion on the Page podcast on Soundcloud, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, and media.aois21.com.

On Wednesday, the next episode of the Sexed Vexed Perplexed with the Modern Whore podcast will be released. Host Aylin Vega will be discussing whether it is a good idea to put out early on in a relationship. This podcast is available every other Wednesday on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, GooglePlay and media.aois21.com, and Thursdays on WDLSradio.net

Also this week, we will release the latest episode of the Creative Speaking video series. aois21 Creative Michael B. Judkins returns for part 4 of his author interview. Find that series on the aois21 Youtube channel and media.aois21.com

And the next edition of Tales From the Old New Land will be released. A.C. Charlap returns to read the tale Microaggresions and an interview with the father of disgruntled contributor Herbert Swamley. Find Tales from the Old New land on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play and media.aois21.com

This episode is sponsored by the Indiegogo campaign for The Will of the Magi by Paul Dickinson Russell. Running now through January 21st, we are raising money to edit, design, and print Russell’s fantasy epic. Visit indiegogo.com and show your support. 

It is also brought to you by Tales From the Old New Land, the newest podcast series from the aois21 podcast network. This series by A.C. Charlap includes storytelling, interviews, music and humor in a unique view of Jewish Culture in Baltimore. Find it monthly on Podomatic, iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, and media.aois21.com.

Literally This Week is available on iTunes, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Podomatic, and media.aois21.com.

For news during the week, follow @aois21 on Twitter.

You can now support this podcast either by buying an ad through Advertisecast, or on the aois21 page on Patreon.

If there’s a story we missed, tweet to us with the #literallythisweek and we’ll check it out.