Welcome back to The Edit, our monthly column about the galleys everyone in publishing is reading. The Booker longlist dropped this week, and included Booker darlings (Douglas Stuart), plus a bunch of exciting small press releases. And for some great recommendations of books old and new, check out Book Gossip‘s roundup of what everyone at NYMag is reading. This month we spoke to Hallie Rich, editor in chief of Library Journal who gave us a fall reading list. She writes, “Although I refuse to utter the words ‘back to school’ before August 1, I am looking forward to my fall […]
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Imprints: Fort Point
Beacon Press will launch a fiction imprint, Fort Point, which “seeks original works that pair literary ambition with fresh perspectives and distinctive voices.” “Fort Point will champion fiction that invites readers into new ways of seeing and inspires new generations to imagine a more expansive world,” said director of Beacon Press director Gayatri Patnaik, who will acquire for the imprint, along with editorial director Amy Caldwell and editors Maya Fernandez and Haley Lynch.
Seven-Figure Book Deal Cancelled Over AI Suspicions Raises Questions About AI Guardrails
A debut thriller won by Minotaur in a seven-figure, two-book deal after a reported 14-way auction was withdrawn by its agents this week for suspected use of AI. The novel, whose title and author PL is withholding for the author’s privacy, sold for an alleged $2.5 million or thereabouts. But rumors surfaced quickly from people who had read the manuscript that the book contained many of the hallmarks of AI, including negative parallelism, off-kilter metaphors, and a flat prose style. On Wednesday, the author’s co-agents Marc Gerald and Ashley Coleman at Europa Content withdrew the book, after questioning the author […]
S&S CEO Greeley: “The challenge ahead of us and the opportunities ahead of us are really independent of who owns us”
Simon & Schuster ceo Greg Greeley spoke to David Steinberger on the Open Book podcast, discussing his first 100 days on the job and more. “At this stage of my career, I really wasn’t looking for a job. What I was looking for was a mission,” Greeley said. “Books…remain one of humanity’s most enduring and important technologies. We preserve ideas across generations. We inspire people. We help understand one another. Books challenge us. And the opportunity to help steward an institution that has served authors and readers for more than a century was really just too compelling to pass up. And frankly, for a […]