Jennifer Egan, Ocean Vuong, Douglas Stuart and Emily St. John Mandel lead this week’s big wave of notable fiction releases, while nonfiction includes new work from Susan Cain and Ben McGrath. Also out today is The Wise Women by Gina Sorrell, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer sampler. 38 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-5 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_April_/222521 9 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-5 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_April_/222522 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 April 2022
People 4/5
Cheryl Lew has been promoted to senior publicity manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Read With Jenna’s April Pick
The April Today Show Read With Jenna book club pick is Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow.
Distribution: Mad Cave Studios
Simon & Schuster will sell and distribute Mad Cave Studios starting August 1.
Finance: Bloomsbury to Increase Raises, Pearson Chooses Buyback Over Buyout
Following a successful year, and in response to the rising cost of living, Bloomsbury increased their annual salary increase for employees in all territories to 5 percent. They will also give staff a bonus of up to 6 percent, a program that reportedly began last year. A spokesperson told The Bookseller: “Our staff will share in this success and this year’s review has been conducted considering both the company’s success and the cost of living crisis. We also have an interim September pay review to ensure those staff who joined later in the financial year are included.” Separately, Pearson announced […]
Publishing Has More Open Positions, But Hiring Is a Challenge
Like many other businesses at this stage of the pandemic, book publishing is seeing a tentative return to physical offices accompanied by an unequivocal surge in recruiting and hiring. Statistics and informal reports suggest a variety of factors of work: Catching up from a big lag in hiring in 2020, hiring for new skills and capabilities in the remote work environment, expanding staff due to everything from extraordinary growth to DEI initiatives, and filling roles vacated due to staff resignations. We took a look at our own data from PM’s industry-leading job board and spoke to a number of companies […]