Books are big business. In 2020, the American book industry made over $25 billion from the sale of print books, e-books, and audio books, and over 4 MILLION new books are published each year. Of that enormous number, less than a million are print books published via traditional channels, meaning by the storied “Big 5” […]
When Jonathan Meiburg received a fellowship to visit the Falkland Islands 25 years ago, he didn’t expect he would meet an animal that would change his life. But while there he encountered a species of handsome, incredibly social and oddly crow-like falcon that Charles Darwin had first come across in 1833. The birds were so […]
The New York Times best-selling author Meg Waite Clayton’s seventh novel, The Last Train to London, was an international bestseller, earning recognition from USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and the National Jewish Book Awards, and her screenplay for the novel was chosen for the Meryl Streep– and Nicole Kidman-sponsored The Writers Lab. So it’s no wonder […]