This week’s fiction releases include novels by Cormac McCarthy and Patricia Cornwell, while nonfiction includes new work from Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jemele Hill, and Ross Gay. Also out this week are T. Greenwood’s Such a Pretty Girl, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter anthology, and Minerva Spencer’s The Boxing Baroness, available to sample in our Buzz Books 2022: Romance collection. 10 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-25 15 nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-25 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 […]
Archives for October 2022
Distribution: Five to Consortium
Five new publishers have signed on for sales and distribution through Consortium. Beginning immediately are the National Council of Teachers of English and Do Book Company, beginning November 1 is Pinter & Martin, and beginning January 3 are the Association of Talent Development and Skinner House Books.
B&N Book of the Year Finalists
Barnes & Noble booksellers nominated 11 titles for its 2022 Book of the Year, with the winner to be announced on November 14.
People 10/24
At the Morrow Group, Lisa McAuliffe has been promoted to senior marketing associate. Katie Tull has been promoted to associate marketing director.
Pen America Addresses Complexities of Diversity Initiatives, Offers Recommendations
Last week Pen America released Reading Between the Lines: Race, Equity, and Book Publishing, a report on racial and ethnic diversity in the industry—”acute and urgent, if not the sole, areas of under-representation”—compiled from publicly-available data, information from publishers, and interviews with more than 60 authors and publishing professionals. The report explains the complexities in the movement for greater diversity and addresses what makes publishing both the same as and different from other industries. It touches on the gold rush of publishers looking for books by Black authors in the wake of 2020’s protests, why comps aren’t sufficient to determine […]
Wylie Reports on Rushdie’s Wounds, Tells Tales About The Trial
Spanish newspaper El Pais interviewed Andrew Wylie at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where he reported the sad news that Salman Rushdie has “lost the sight of one eye” and “one hand is incapacitated because the nerves in his arm were cut.” Wylie underscored, “it was a brutal attack” and Rushdie “has about 15 more wounds in his chest and torso.” More broadly, the full interview is classic Wylie. He provides a colorful account of what he believes he said in court during the Penguin Random House antitrust trial: “The mistake the Department of Justice made was they were talking about […]