https://www.scmp.com/rss/519703/feed Jo Lusby is the co-founder of Pixie B, an IP management and strategy agency specialising in publishing, film, and the creative sector in Asia, whose clients include Batman / DC Comics, Chinese sci-fi franchise Three Body Problem and Harry Potter digital publisher Pottermore, as well as BBC Studios, The Financial Times and Macmillan Publishers. Jo is the chair of the Creative and Consumer Committee for the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, and serves as an advisor to the Hong Kong... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Jo Lusby Jo Lusby In 2023, British children’s publisher Puffin updated the work of author Roald Dahl to exorcise perceptions of bias and prejudice. Their goal was to retrofit the work for new generations of global readers. Out went the casual name calling, fat-shaming, othering and general linguistic cruelty. Witches were no longer “old hags”, but rather, “old crows”. The terrifying Twits were still “beastly”, but no longer deemed “ugly”. The work of Dahl, long criticised for his antisemitic views, was considered... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3299394/authenticity-checks-and-balances-help-writers-stay-within-fine-lines?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3299394/authenticity-checks-and-balances-help-writers-stay-within-fine-lines?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 22 Feb 2025 03:00:12 +0000 Jo Lusby Jo Lusby When Shonee Mirchandani returned to Hong Kong from London two decades ago to help run the family bookshop business, Bookazine, the first thing she saw were the romance novels occupying the prime real estate beside store entrances. “The walls were floor to ceiling romance,” she recalls. “No bestsellers, non-fiction or prizewinners – it was all these old-fashioned steamy romance books.” Charged with reinvigorating the bookselling chain, Mirchandani and sister Arti lost no time in ordering a... https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3281326/why-steamy-romance-novels-are-making-comeback-beyond-booktok-it-ends-us-bridgerton?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3281326/why-steamy-romance-novels-are-making-comeback-beyond-booktok-it-ends-us-bridgerton?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:15:07 +0000