David Maybury | Blog

Fresh faced from the New Media Conference (notes from that tomorrow I hope) I found a string of emails with interesting bits and pieces when I got back home:

Achockablog never misses Andrea Deakin’s Newsletter - the next issue is up for enjoyment. And stolen borrowed from the pages of Andrea’s newsletter: The NYT’s Children’s Books Special issue. And within it’s pages -the Best Illustrated Children’s Books 2008.

And Eoin Purcell appears on theBookseller.com with an interesting look at the state of play for Irish publishing.

Of the top 50 fiction titles only four were published by native Irish publishers, seven of the top 50 were from Irish-based arms of foreign publishing concerns and the rest were published by foreign publishers.

More events tonight - the launch of PJ Lynch’s new book - The Gift of the Magi - and if you haven’t seen it yet… go visit PJ’s online Retrospective Exhibition, with prints from his books for sale.