Literary agent Mary C. Evans, 74, died peacefully at her home in Hudson, NY on September 4. She started her publishing career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and then spent 17 years at the Virginia Barber Literary Agency before opening her own agency in 1994, Mary Evans Inc., which continues to serve current authors. She represented writers including Abraham Verghese, Erika Krouse, Michael Chabon, Charles D’Ambrosio, Sally Fallon, and many more Memorial contributions in her honor may be made to Bridge Hotel Farm — 184 Orchard Rd, Hudson, NY 12534. Funeral arrangements are private and under the care of Breanna […]
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Imprints: PRH UK’s Dusk
Penguin Random House has launched Dusk, a new adult imprint “focused on romance, fantasy and crossover fiction,” according to The Bookseller. Publisher Carmen McCullough and editorial director Amina Parchment-Youssef will lead the imprint, which will publish its first titles this fall. “Some of the most exciting energy in publishing today is coming from a generation of readers who don’t see themselves, or their reading tastes, in traditional categories,” McCullough told the magazine. “They move effortlessly between YA, new adult and adult fiction, between romance and fantasy, discovering books through friends, creators and online communities, and turning the stories they love into […]
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Nearly Half of Scholars Are Using AI for Academic Books, Survey Finds
Many scholars are using AI in their book and journal submissions, but they are not being fully transparent about it, according to a new survey by Oxford University Press. Looking specifically at books rather than scholarly journals, about 46 percent of authors who published a book in the last year used AI in crafting their manuscripts. Eight percent of authors fully disclosed their AI use while 39 percent did not fully disclose it. The most common uses of AI in books were “editing and writing assistance, finding relevant sources and literature, references and citation management, and translation.” A quarter of […]
Forthcoming: Kristin Hannah’s ‘The Fire’
Kristin Hannah’s THE FIRE will be published by St. Martin’s on May 4, her first new book in three years after The Women in 2024, USA Today reports. According to a description from the publisher, the novel follows a woman who, after a “deep betrayal,” embarks on a cross-country trip to reconnect with her estranged daughter.