City of Night Birds (Ecco, November 26, 2024.) Editor: Deborah Ghim. Agent: Jody Kahn. Juhea Kim is the author of the novel Beasts of a Little Land, a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and shortlisted for the Yasyana Polyana Prize. A graduate of Princeton University, her writing has been published in Granta, Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, Zyzzyva, Guernica and elsewhere. Born in Korea and raised in Portland, Oregon, Kim now lives in London. How did you find your agent? I worked in publishing in the early 2010s as an editorial assistant. After I wrote a short story for […]
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Sales of This Year’s NBA Fiction Nominees Surpass Previous Winners
One thing is clear in advance of tonight’s National Book Awards ceremony: The list of fiction nominees is the most commercial crop of titles in contention for many years. Kaveh Akbar’s MARTYR! is among the top-selling debuts of the year, with sales of approximately 46,000 hardcovers so far as measured by Circana Bookscan. That puts it well head of the hardcover sales of the last three NBA fiction winners (BLACKOUTS; THE RABBIT HUTCH; and HELL OF A BOOK). Miranda July’s breakout ALL FOURS was one of the summer’s most talked about books, and has sold just over 99,000 hardcovers. And […]
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As always, our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer anthology–and Publishers Lunch–will include a comprehensive list of notable upcoming books. If you haven’t done so already, please send information about your top titles publishing February through August 2025–including title, author, imprint, pub date, and ISBN–to our news team by Friday, November 22. Fiction submissions can be sent to Erin Somers (Erin@publishersmarketplace.com) and nonfiction to Katy Hershberger (Katy@publishersmarketplace.com).