Winners Of The 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes Announced
The winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced in an online ceremony on Friday night! The L.A. Times awards prizes in many categories, including Fiction, Biography, Current Interest, Graphic Novel, Young Adult, and more. Winners include Isabel Wilkerson, Ibi Zoboi and Dr. Yusef Salaam, S.A. Cosby, Stephen Graham Jones, and more!
Disney Launches An Adult Imprint
Disney Publishing has been really busy reorganizing, and part of that reorganization includes launching an adult imprint. The imprint plans to tap into Disney’s vast intellectual holdings to produce new content, but they also are looking to acquire authors they believe are bound to be bestsellers. They are also looking to reimagine classic Disney stories as adult novels in their Meant to Be line, which will launch with upcoming Cinderella retelling If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy, as well as expanding their children’s book offerings and launching an imprint headed up by Melissa de la Cruz.
Amazon Adds Obvious Kindle Feature To Make Book Covers Your Lockscreen
If you’re a Kindle user, you’ve probably been hoping and begging for this feature–you can now make the book cover of digital book you own and are currently reading on Kindle your lockscreen. You can turn this feature on in settings, but it only works if you own a Kindle without ads. But, fun fact: If you ever want to get rid of ads on your Kindle, you can remove them in your Amazon account settings on desktop (for a fee, of course).