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Famed in China for his work’s sexual sensibilities — “almost my trademark” — author Feng Tang’s ‘Beijing, Beijing’ is available for the first time in English, in a translation by Michelle Deeter from AmazonCrossing. A celebrity at home among the boyfriends and girlfriends he writes about, Feng calmly tells us that his newest novel “will sell one million copies.”

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20,000 BookCon fans are expected to cap this year’s BookExpo America trade show (BEA) in New York. How do books unleash such passion? BookCon creator Lance Fensterman of ReedPOP at Berlin’s Publisher’s Forum tells his audience that when “Publishing Goes Pop,” creators and consumers come together.

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Following the Author HQ program at London Book Fair, the Alliance of Independent Authors held its IndieReCon in London to do reconnaissance on ALLi’s first three years of international operation and writerly progress.

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In the run-up to the London Book Fair, Monday’s Publishing for Digital Minds conference at Olympia London is the first of the year’s trade-show-opening publishing conferences.

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Bestselling self-publishing husband-wife collaborators Jasinda and Jack Wilder have a new seven-figure deal for three novels with Penguin Random House’s Berkley Books. Will their fellow indies cheer? — or see them as sellouts?

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As the publishing world is compressed to “digital distance,” that “small, small world” finds itself a focus in several event settings this spring — starting with the London Book Fair’s innovative Virtual Stream program for the coming “Publishing for Digital Minds” conference.

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One of the most compelling debuts in recent years, Josh Malerman’s ‘Bird Box’ is honored by an international online center for horror, This Is Horror.

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The opening conference of April’s big publishing trade show in London will feature a multilingual social-media backchannel, and London Book Fair’s “Digital Minds” conference is calling for professional volunteers.