AFTER author Anna Todd has launched an imprint, Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books. The imprint is the first to launch under the Wattpad Webtoon Book Group and will publish Todd’s books going forward, starting with three titles in 2022, as well as “books by established and emerging writers of commercial fiction.” A release states that “Todd will be involved in every aspect of publication for books published by Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, from acquisition to launch and promotion” in partnership with consulting publisher Anne Messitte (she’s also consulting publisher at Zibby Books). Messitte will “guide publishing strategy for the […]
Archives for November 2021
New Books Publishing November 9
Louise Erdrich, Ken Follett and John Edgar Wideman lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles by Will Smith, Emily Ratajkowski and David Graeber and David Wengrow. Also out today is Marc Myers’s Rock Concert, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_November_/220337 23 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_November_/220338 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, now you can use […]
2022 Giller Prize Winner
Commemorating Now, Celebrating Later: A PM Generation
This endless Covid year has taken away or suppressed all kinds of things, large and small. Along the way we ourselves passed a couple of occasions of note: First was the 20th anniversary of the start of Publishers Lunch, right after the lockdown began, in April 2020. And now we have arrived at the 20th anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com. We’re not ready to party together yet — we’ll hope for that by next year, when we reach drinking age — but we didn’t want to let another milestone slip by without a short acknowledgment. It was, of course, simply unimaginable when […]
August AAP Stats Remained Strong
The AAP is catching up on their monthly StatShot reports, releasing statistics for August just a week after their July report. As in July, trade sales remained quite strong in August, once again with trade paperbacks leading the way. With retailers loading up early for the holidays, August sales were even stronger: Trade sales of $758 million were $112 million higher than a year ago, up 17.3 percent (and August 2020 was $46 million than August 2019). Adult sales of $521 million were up $69 million from 2020; children’s sales of $237 million were up $43 million. Adult trade paperbacks […]
People 11/8
Catherine Onder joins in the new role of vice president and publisher of children's books at Sourcebooks. She was most recently svp, publisher at HMH Books and Media.