The finalists for the 2022 National Book Awards were announced on Tuesday. The winners will be announced on November 16.
Archives for October 2022
Bookselling: B&N Reopening Skokie, IL Location
Barnes & Noble is reopening a location in the Westfield Old Orchard shopping center in Skokie, IL a year after it closed its store there for redevelopment of the building. Opening November 16, the new store will have a smaller footprint than the old store — still a substantial 20,000 square feet, but that compares to the former’s 45,000 square feet. And a portion of that space, on the first floor, will include a Paper Source stationery store (the line also owned by BN’s owner Elliott Management.) CEO James Daunt said in a statement, “Old Orchard was one of the […]
Acquisitions: Harper Focus Buys Cider Mill Press
HarperCollins Focus has acquired Cider Mill Press, a publisher of gift books specializing in “cookbooks, elegant wine and spirits projects, humor books, and children’s classics.” Cider Mill Press and children’s imprint Applesauce Press will become imprints under HarperCollins Focus. Cider Mill founder John Whalen Jr. will continue on with the company. John Whalen III joins HarperCollins Focus as vp, publisher of both Cider Mill Press and Applesauce Press. He was previously responsible for all operational oversight of the imprints. Laura Minchew, senior vp, group publisher for HarperCollins Focus Children’s and Gift books will oversee the Cider Mill publishing operations within […]
New Books Publishing October 4
Orhan Pamuk, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan, and book club favorite Celeste Ng lead this week’s fiction releases. Nonfiction includes work from David Quammen, Cori Bush, and Maggie Haberman; and Adam Silvera, Malinda Lo, and Alice Oseman publish new YA titles this month. Also out this week are new books by Ana Davila Cardinal, Lauren Denton, Elizabeth McCracken, and Thomas E. Ricks, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter sampler. 24 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_October_/224566 12 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_October_/224567 25 children’s titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-october https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_October/224565 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and […]
October Picks
Reese Witherspoon chose Celeste Ng's novel Our Missing Hearts as her October book club pick. Ng is the first author to be chosen twice by the book club.
People 10/3
Leah Wasielewski has been promoted to vp, associate publisher for Harper hardcover imprints, including Harper, Harper Business, Harper Wave, Broadside, and Harper Design.