Half a dozen professional writers’ organizations have joined with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in forming a joint task to press the Walt Disney Company to ensure it pays all royalties owed to authors. The task force, #DisneyMust Pay, contends that Disney is putting the onus on authors to prove they are owed money, rather than working with authors and author groups to proactively pay authors royalties that are due. Read more
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These writers have come together to raise money for Indian COVID relief.
As India’s horrific COVID surge intensifies, a group of authors from around the world (led by the narrative nonfiction writer Sonia Faleiro) have come together to support the essential work of Mission Oxygen India, an organization dedicated to helping hospitals across the country get immediate access to direly-needed oxygen concentrators. Read more
The star Japanese crime novelist almost too good to translate
Imagine yourself, over a 30-year career, being considered a modern master of both crime and literary fiction. You’ve sold millions of copies, won every major mystery award, seen several books adapted for the screen and earned the sobriquet “Queen of Mysteries.” But here’s the catch: Your work has never been translated outside your home country. Read more
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Agatha Christie’s Oxfordshire home is on sale for £2.75m
The mystery novel maven lived at Winterbrook House, on the banks of the River Thames in Oxfordshire, for upward of 40 years, from 1934 to her death in 1976, according to a news release from listing agent Savills. Read more
