In the Doubleday publicity department, Elena Hershey has been promoted to associate director; Tricia Cave has been promoted to publicity manager and Jillian Briglia has been promoted to associate publicist.
Archives for November 2021
Amazon’s Best Books of the Year
Amazon announced their Best Books of 2021, naming 20 top titles along with a full package of “bests” and a top 100 list. Five titles remain on the list from their Best So Far selection halfway through the year: Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead; Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro; The Plot, by Jean Hanff Korelitz; The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah; and Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir. You can sample the Korelitz now in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter anthology. Their full list: 1. The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles 2. Crying in H Mart, by Michelle […]
New Books Publishing November 16
Dave Eggers, David Baldacci and Charlie Jane Anders lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes The 1619 Project, a memoir by Dwayne Wade, and diaries from Patricia Highsmith. Also out today are books by Bisi Adjapon, Tea Cooper, Claire Oshetsky and Gayle Jessup White, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 18 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_November_/220403 18 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_November_/220404 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 […]
Ernest J. Gaines Award
December Library Reads
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale tops December's LibraryReads list.
Tomorrow’s Live Discuss Guest: Ghostwriters Agent Madeleine Morel
Join literary agent Madeleine Morel online at this Publishers Marketplace link tomorrow, Wednesday, November 17 at noon Eastern for your chance to ask her about the world of ghostwriting. The latest guest on our Discuss forum, Madeleine will answer your questions on how to break into the business, how having an agent works for a ghostwriter, and more. Just sign in and use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments (which you also can do in advance) and Madeleine will post back.