Richard Powers’ BEWILDERMENT leads this week’s fiction releases alongside booms by Wiley Cash and Rabih Alameddine, while nonfiction includes the latest from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward. Also out today are works by Ruth Ozeki, Jo Watson and Bernhard Schlink, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-21 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_September_/219861 15 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-21 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_September_/219862 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, […]
Archives for September 2021
Zando Announces Imprints With Lena Waithe, Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn and Lena Waithe will become publishers of their own imprints at Zando, the independent publisher led by ceo Molly Stern. Flynn and Waithe are the first “catalyst partners” announced in Zando’s plan to partner with influential figures and institutions to publish and promote books. Catalyst partners have a revenue share, dependent on the success of the books, and each imprint plans to publish four to six books over three years, beginning in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. Modeled from Stern’s experience with Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Hogarth, Zando editors select submissions that might be appropriate for a […]
Dohle Pledges that PRH and S&S Will Bid Separately
In a private Zoom session on Monday, Penguin Random House ceo Markus Dohle announced to literary agents in answer to a frequently posed question that the company will allow competitive bidding between PRH and Simon & Schuster imprints in the US after the acquisition has closed. “We will treat Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster imprints as external parties in auctions for bidding purposes, post closing,” Dohle said. “This means very concretely, the auction will continue, even if the only imprints left are a PRH imprint and an S&S imprint.” He did reserve the right, “for governance reasons,” that […]
Barnes & Noble Tells NY Post They’re Doing Great
The New York Post has a hot “exclusive” business story: It turns out book sales have boomed during the pandemic, and Barnes & Noble is “cashing in.” Of course the story doesn’t really say what it thinks it says. Here’s what we find notable: – Owner Elliott Advisors hopes to unload the chain within another two years. “A source familiar with the matter says Elliott is about halfway through its plan that would eventually spin the bookseller back onto the public markets — or sell it to another private buyer.” – Barnes & Noble’s store count has declined, from 627 […]
Imprints: Astra Publishing Forms Children’s Division
Astra announced the launch of its children’s division, Astra Books for Young Readers, which will house one new imprint–Astra Young Readers–and five existing imprints: Calkins Creek, Hippo Park (Jill Davis’s newly-named imprint), Kane Press, mineditionUS, and Wordsong. Astra coo Ben Schrank said: “Astra Publishing House now has six very special children’s book imprints that cover books for all ages and children’s interests, from board books for babies and toddlers and picture books to nonfiction and history, poetry, middle-grade, and young adult books and so we felt it was time to identify and celebrate them with a new children’s book division: […]
People 9/20
Casten Almqvist will take over as chairman of the board of Bonnier Books in October, succeeding Maria Curman, who will be leaving the board.