Through the first three quarters of 2022, NPD Bookscan reports that measured print book sales reached 543 million units, still the second-best result in years. That total is 27 million below the same point in 2021, but well above 2020 and earlier. The sales comp actually improved during the third quarter, when sales were just 1.9 percent or 3.4 million units below the same period in 2021. Adult fiction (AKA Colleen Hoover fiction) remained very strong, up 9 percent in the quarter, adding 11.3 million units compared to 2021. In addition to romance, graphic novels and fantasy also performed well. […]
Archives for October 2022
November Library Reads
Library Reads announced its picks for November. Two titles, Kevin Wilson's Now is Not the Time to Panic and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe can be sampled now in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall Winter anthology.
People 10/17
At Simon & Schuster, Melissa Croce has been promoted to senior marketing manager, adult library.
Call for Spring/Summer Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2023: Spring/Summer samplers will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview/overview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable spring/summer titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now […]
Authors Talk: T. Greenwood
T. Greenwood’s novels have sold more than a quarter-million copies. A four-time winner of the San Diego Book Award, she has received grants from the Sherwood Anderson Foundation, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Five of her novels have been Indie Next Picks and her twelfth novel, Rust & Stardust, was a LibraryReads selection. Her novels have been translated into five languages. She lives in San Diego, CA, where she teaches creative writing for The Writer’s Center and San Diego Writer’s Ink, studies photography, and continues to write. Visit her […]