Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk
Literary agent @ShawLiterary. Formerly head book buyer @readingsbooks. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes. thebooksdesk.com Leipzig, Germany Joined October 2010-
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🎙️ US-based readers and booksellers 🎙️ We are delighted to announce that Peninsula books are finally available to order in the United States via @asterism_books 💫💫💫 asterismbooks.com/publisher/peni…
Such a hateful party. The world is at war, children are being blown apart with British bombs, we’re heading towards climate collapse and no one can afford housing. The NHS is in crisis. There are people experiencing homelessness at record levels. A waste of a political voice.
Such a hateful party. The world is at war, children are being blown apart with British bombs, we’re heading towards climate collapse and no one can afford housing. The NHS is in crisis. There are people experiencing homelessness at record levels. A waste of a political voice.
Happy May Day! PERIPATHETIC is officially out now @newsouthpub Available at most independent bookstores in so-called Australia. DM me if you'd like to review the book or conduct an interview about it!
This has made me think a lot about event economics - as I think those numbers may surprise people too. I don't have time to do a full breakdown, but on a very back-of-the-envelope level, an author coming from say London to Manchester for a bookshop event might look as follows:
Following on from this, what are the greatest tragedies/challenges for literary presses? 1. The loss of the Net Book Agreement 2. Big publishers trying to grab the rights of your books as soon as they look like they might be a success 3. The paucity of Arts funding in the UK
Following on from this, what are the greatest tragedies/challenges for literary presses? 1. The loss of the Net Book Agreement 2. Big publishers trying to grab the rights of your books as soon as they look like they might be a success 3. The paucity of Arts funding in the UK
Tusiata Avia (and PM's award winner): This is not a Satire ("This is how it starts, you think. Little by little, and then one day, BOOM, freedom of expression - which is the arts - gone." open.substack.com/pub/tusiata/p/…
Quite a statistic in the fine print here: "the median sell-through for literary fiction (in the first year of publication) is 241 copies (Publishers Association stats)."
Quite a statistic in the fine print here: "the median sell-through for literary fiction (in the first year of publication) is 241 copies (Publishers Association stats)."
What does a book cost? Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: galleybeggar.co.uk/what-does-a-bo…
For fans of Jen Craig, I've just stumbled on this. Quite surprised I hadn't come across it earlier. youtube.com/watch?v=Mb4OWA…
Excited to announce the longlist for the Peter Carey Short Story Award! Congrats to the 13 writers, and a massive thank you to our longlisting judges: Laurie Steed, Brooke Dunnell and @roffwrites! @EugenBacon to announce her winners on Saturday 1 June! moorabool.vic.gov.au/Services-and-s…
Happy pub day to Jeff & Sam!
One of the big big highlights of my bookselling career that one! It’s what we’re all in it for - to get REALLY excited by a book - & boy did M land it on debut. And to watch MBC’s career keep soaring ever since? Also an utter delight…
One of the big big highlights of my bookselling career that one! It’s what we’re all in it for - to get REALLY excited by a book - & boy did M land it on debut. And to watch MBC’s career keep soaring ever since? Also an utter delight…
Good!
Vale, Vincent O'Sullivan (1937-2024) newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/30/val…
This is absolutely horrifying. theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
It's a while since I shouted OH FUCK OFF this much at a book, finding it quite restorative
First interview about my second novel, ELEGY, SOUTHWEST (Feb ‘25) is up on the Creatrix Pod now: open.spotify.com/episode/0LIUl2…
It may have taken an extra week, but the inevitable happened. “To be, or not to be: that is the question” for the tortured poet Hamlet…
It may have taken an extra week, but the inevitable happened. “To be, or not to be: that is the question” for the tortured poet Hamlet…
“No one’s coming to mind? Not a single New Zealand author? Not immediately. Let me come back to you.” Ah NZ, where a coalition partner’s arts spokesperson can’t name a single Kiwi author. Via a suitably flummoxed @SteveBraunias… newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/29/act…
Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
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Caustic Cover Critic @Unwise_Trousers
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13K Followers 2K Following Lector / Escritor / Arquitecto. Reader / Writer / Architect. Major mottoes: "I would prefer not to,” “yes I said yes I will Yes,” “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”
Caustic Cover Critic @Unwise_Trousers
10K Followers 3K Following 90kg of relatively inert mass, obsessed with books; unpleasing to the eye. Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to run a carriage. My book: https://t.co/EjdIBOfDeL
Paul Dalgarno @PaulDalgarno
4K Followers 2K Following A Country of Eternal Light is out now (Fourth Estate) as is Prudish Nation (Upswell). Agent: @thebooksdesk | Insta: dalgarnowrites 🏴 🇦🇺
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Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook
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Greg Gerke / Socrates.. @Greg_Gerke
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Anthony @timesflow
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Andrei @TheUntranslated
8K Followers 713 Following Founder of The Untranslated, a blog about literature not yet available in English
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7K Followers 7K Following Essayist, Translator, Writing first English-language Biography of Robert Musil for Yale UP. Portals: https://www.thisissplice https://t.co/PN4TugILXW
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4K Followers 767 Following Founder/Editor of The Hobbyhorse, a little online mag of literary and film criticism.
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5K Followers 4K Following Reader, Teacher, Writer / Canadian in Arkansas / Mountains of Books / Writing a book about teaching Holocaust Literature
Hunter Dukes @hunterdukes
845 Followers 777 Following managing editor @publicdomainrev & @cabinetmagazine signature @objectsobjects past: lecturer of lit / jrf / phd firstnamelastname at gmail
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464 Followers 1K Following Former magazine Editor for @Au_BCA, policy advisor for @Vision2020Aus. Writer, journalist, accessibility consultent, record collector.
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🎙️ US-based readers and booksellers 🎙️ We are delighted to announce that Peninsula books are finally available to order in the United States via @asterism_books 💫💫💫 asterismbooks.com/publisher/peni…
Spotlighting the brilliant @PressPeninsula at @WaterstonesBYR - a vibrant bunch jostling together at our wee store in Glasgow.
Milestone: just hit 20,000 words. Low-fi progress chart: 1 square = 1000 words ❤️ Always in green 💚 Love that little dopamine hit of colouring in each square by hand. Writing a book is a bit like making a tapestry. Inching towards the finish line, enjoying myself along the way.
If you'd like some professional help with a manuscript and are ready to roll, I have one slot left open for a structural edit in May. (Cartoon courtesy of Tom Gauld.)
He can get the fuck out. And so can she.
🚨NEW: Keir Starmer says Rosie Duffield is right to say only women have a cervix [@Telegraph]
Launch of Vitagraph Publishing and edition 1 of Written Off happened last night... It was amazing. If you were one of the 180 people who attended the launch THANK YOU! #australianpublishing
There are books of Vincent’s all over my house - with the poetry books, the short stories, the plays and the New Zealand novels, even with the art books. This I treasure the most - a book I’d loved and which Vincent thanked me for the review I’d written. A fine gentleman.
@maraebrarian @thebooksdesk *sorry not 2023 (it was 2012 in Kingston, ON). A little distracted today at learning of Paul Auster's passing. I'm gutted at this news.
Heard the story today of a woman who lives in New England NSW. She had a rental below the market rate but had to leave suddenly because her abuser tracked her down. The cost of housing in the region now is such that her parents have decided to sell the family farm to help her.
a 30% rise in women killed by male intimate partners in one year is a huge jump. that’s not a culture shift, culture doesn’t change that fast. is there anything else that’s been rising at breakneck speed that could possibly explain this
In doing so, her parents are giving up their only real asset - something that would have paid, perhaps, for their care as they get older. The land will be lost and the money spent on a house. The daughter will now also have to shoulder the burden of their care when they need it.
This is occurring in a regional place not at all fashionable or touristic - nevertheless, housing is still scarce and unaffordable. Closer to where I am, conditions are even more severe - but when things are bad everywhere, severity is no longer a useful metric.
A boycott, open letters, petitions, resignations - @StuartKells from @latrobe writes that these are definitive evidence something has gone wrong with the State Library of Victoria. theconversation.com/the-state-libr…
@maraebrarian @thebooksdesk Yes, I met him twice. He singed most of them at a Toronto appearance in 2001. And again later in 2023 when he appeared with Paul Auster. Gracious and kind he recognized me when I came back with a second stack in 2001. My girlfriend at the time carried another on my behalf.
"It’s thrilling to turn the page after acres of Olympic-standard bellyaching and find the entire text of Kafka’s extraordinary short story The Judgement presented just as he wrote it, in one long overnight blizzard of creativity." Me on Kafka's diaries: thetimes.co.uk/article/diarie…
It’s MayDay and I’m writing about Kafka and learning more about his socialist sympathies. Not bad.
Such a hateful party. The world is at war, children are being blown apart with British bombs, we’re heading towards climate collapse and no one can afford housing. The NHS is in crisis. There are people experiencing homelessness at record levels. A waste of a political voice.
🚨 BREAKING: Labour will ban trans women from female hospital wards, confirms Keir Starmer. Starmer told ITV today he agrees with NHS reforms that would ban trans people from single-sex wards. When asked if trans women should be allowed on women's wards, he said: "I disagree".
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