'Storytelling brand' OWN IT! is teaming up with Amazon Publishing to offer a £3,500 cash prize in a new writing contest which aims to boost diversity in commercial fiction.
Leading UK indie crime fiction publisher Joffe Books has bought crime backlist specialist Ostara Publishing.
The Watty Awards 2022 are opening for entries from July 22, 2022, and there's only a short timeframe to enter as the contest closes on August 19, 2022. That's a lot less than last year when entries were open for nearly three full months.
The KDP Select Global Fund for Kindle Unlimited for June 2022 settled down after a big increase in May to a more usual rise of $100,000 to reach $43.4 million.
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Amazon India has launched its annual Kindle Direct Publishing Pen to Publish Contest which is the fifth year of the competition for self-published writers.
Self-publishing author L J Ross is the runner-up on Amazon.co.uk's list of the best-selling book series on the site since it was launched in 1998.
The May 2022 Kindle Vella bonus rose to $900,000 from $875,000 in April, showing a marked slowdown in rate of increase from previous monthly rises of $50,000.
There was a big increase in the KDP Select Global Fund for Kindle Unlimited for May 2022 as it shot up by $1.8 million to $43.3 million from $41.5 million in April 2022.
Adam Kay, author of the multi-million best-selling medic memoir This Is Going To Hurt − Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, has joined the judging panel for the 2022 Kindle Storyteller UK Award.
Serial fiction self-publishing site Radish Fiction is moving into the audiobook market and is teaming up with audiobook distribution company Findaway Voices.