Make sure to add your name to the hundreds who have signed up for the Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Presents (#LunchBuzz) Zoom panel featuring six editors in the format you know and love, coming up soon online on Wednesday, May 20 at 7 pm EDT. We’re excited to welcome one more featured guest, our celebrity host and author, Cameron Esposito. A standup comic, actor and writer, she has appeared on major network television, films, and is co-creator and co-star of Take My Wife, which aired on Starz. Queery, her podcast, features interviews with high profile members of the LGBTQ community. Her first […]
Archives for May 2020
New For Individual PM Members
As we noted Friday, readers who access PM and read our emails through a company site license have a new form to customize among all three of our three email newsletters — Publishers Lunch Deluxe; Lunch Deluxe Weekly; and Daily Deals. Individual Publishers Marketplace members have the same expanded capability of choosing all three of those newsletters, too. Just go to the Your Account page at PM, and in the Newsletters section, you will see three checkboxes for Your e-mail subscriptions: Feel free to update your selection as frequently as you like. (And please note, we now send Daily Deals through […]
Moreno-Garcia’s Mexican Gothic Tops June Library Reads
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the top pick for June’s Library Reads. Also on the list are Julie Clark’s The Last Flight and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, excerpted and available to sample in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer. The rest of the list: The Boyfriend Project, by Farrah Rochon Devolution, by Max Brooks The Empire of Gold, by S. A. Chakraborty The Girl From Widow Hills, by Megan Miranda The Guest List, by Lucy Foley The Lies That Bind, Emily Giffin Take a Hint, Dani Brown, by Talia Hibbert
The Complete Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter Titles
As we previewed Thursday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2020: Fall/Winter arrives this week packed with 30 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for the fall publishing season. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). Our samplers are highly anticipated by our network of passionate readers who use them to fill their pre-orders and TBR lists (and we […]
The Big Buzz Event
Remember to register now for the Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Presents (#LunchBuzz) Zoom panel featuring six editors in the format you know and love, presenting six curated potential breakout titles for the fall. We’ll see you online on Wednesday, May 20 at 7 pm EDT. The first 150 booksellers who register will get a package of four printed and two digital galleys for the featured titles (since some publishers are currently unable to print and ship galleys), without having to rush the tables at the end of the session. So spread the word among your bookseller friends. We’re also helping to raise […]
People, Etc.
At Macmillan Children’s, Mekisha Telfer has been promoted to senior associate editor at Roaring Brook Press; Luisa Beguiristain to assistant editor at Roaring Brook Press; Melissa Warten to associate editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s; Elizabeth Lee to assistant editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s; and Robyn Chapman to editor at First Second. CEO of Taylor & Francis Annie Callanan was elected president of the UK’s Publishers Association, taking over from Cambridge University Press ceo Peter Phillips. Hachette UK ceo David Shelley was elected vice-president and treasurer; Bonnier Books UK ceo Perminder Mann was named chair of the Consumer Publishers Council. Aylin LaMorey-Salzmann has […]