Noisy Streets Launches Literary Advisory Arm

Quick 1-Minute Portrait Tricks | A clip from my Substack post, Writers Inspired by the Arts: Live with Sheri Handel and Kelcey Ervick . Watch it here: https://lnkd.in/exueJmmW

Harlequin, one of the world’s largest romance publishers owned by HarperCollins Publishers, has signed a deal with DashReels to adapt 40 stories into duanju series. The agreement highlights how major publishing catalogs are increasingly being adapted into vertical mobile fiction. Read the article : https://lnkd.in/ewn4rJYm

Is good taste enough to find Hollywood's next hit? Author Arianna R.’s new London-based literary IP scouting service, Bo-sco, is aimed at producers and delivers a monthly newsletter with seven titles sourced from “overlooked corners of the literary landscape. Read on: https://lnkd.in/eGvCFYdg

The Follett Street Date Program will enable public libraries to preorder select, high-demand adult titles in advance of their publisher release dates. “When a title debuts on a to-be watched list or gets major media momentum, libraries need to be ready to respond,” said CEO Britten Follett. https://lnkd.in/esdFT5-T

Thank you Publishers Weekly for covering this! We're thrilled to launch the Follett Street Date Program, enabling public libraries to preorder high-demand adult titles ahead of their publisher release dates! As CEO Britten Follett says: libraries need to be ready to respond when a title gets major momentum, reliably, affordably, and at scale. Read the full story below.

A new essay: The Mantis: An Archive for Recursive Interpretation When his TV deal ended in 2009, writer Luigi Rondanini didn’t give up on the project. He let go. Originally conceived as three parallel blogs — three characters living in Rome, each describing the same reality from radically subjective viewpoints — mutated into something else entirely: a distributed system for telling a psychological story. 155 entries. Three strands. One shattered reality. In his latest essay, available now on Medium, Luigi delves deeper into how constraints shape. How blogs are an act of self-museumizing. How story structure can become narrative. For fans of story architecture, weird-fiction form, and what the Internet allows us to do that books and TV can’t. Read “The Mantis: An Archive for Recursive Interpretation” https://lnkd.in/eg7HpcVY on Medium You can find The Mantis at themantis.rondanini.uk #LiteraryFiction #DistributedNarrative #ExperimentalWriting #FormMatters #InternetFiction #NarrativeArchitecture #DigitalStorytelling #WritingCraft #PublishingInnovation #AuthorLife #CreativeNonfiction #Literary #Storytelling #WritersCommunity #IndiePublishing

The Asian Literary Festival launches a groundbreaking children's initiative combining heritage narratives with cutting-edge digital platforms The Asian Literary Festival has unveiled an innovative children's segment that promises to transform how young audiences engage with literature in the digital age. Kipenzi, a revolutionary concept headed by Dr Nadeera Nilupamali, represents a bold fusion of traditional storytelling with modern technology, creating an entirely new paradigm for children's literary festivals. https://lnkd.in/g5xN8qPZ

In this article from RadioDoc Review, Weyland McKenzie-Witter explores the development of an audio praxis that combines oral history, sound design, storytelling, and archival material to engage with and critically examine history. Beyond The Broadcast: Nello and The People’s Method: https://lnkd.in/eh37SAWn And you can find out more about the project and listen to the three-part documentary Asking Darcus Howe here https://lnkd.in/eVdTg9gf

Audiovisual sources are a vital ingredient in shaping modern scholarship. In the past couple of years, 48% of academic librarians expected to increase spending on audiovisual primary sources. Discover why in our upcoming webinar, including a look inside our recently published title, Shakespeare in Silent Film: https://okt.to/D5Tale

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