The Audie Awards announced winners across several categories, with Finding Me, written and narrated by Viola Davis, taking home Audiobook of the Year.
Archives for March 2023
Whiting Awards Winners
The 2023 Whiting Awards announced ten winners on Wednesday evening.
Visiting Sanderson In His Dragonsteel “Lair”
Brandon Sanderson’s TRESS OF THE EMERALD SEA, the first of the books he offered through his record-smashing $41 million Kickstarter campaign, publishes in its regular trade edition next Tuesday. As his employees pack March swag boxes for his over 38,000 of his backers (the Kickstarter had 185,000 backers overall), Esquire visits Sanderson in his “underground supervillain lair” in Utah. “To fulfill the Kickstarter, we had to double our staff,” Sanderson says, and his company Dragonsteel now employs 64 people. He tells the magazine, “The Kickstarter didn’t make us more money than just selling those books in New York would have,” […]
People 3/29
ReedPop president Lance Fensterman will leave the company after 17 years, for "a very interesting opportunity arose that I’ll share in due time.... I was pursued by a very different company for some months."
Publishing Triangle Torchbearer Award
The Publishing Triangle announced that the inaugural recipient of their new Torchbearer Award will be Drag Story Hour NYC.
Forthcoming: THE FIRM Sequel
On October 17, Doubleday will publish THE EXCHANGE: After The Firm, a sequel to John Grisham’s bestselling 1991 thriller The Firm. The book takes place 15 years after the first novel, and the publisher’s description reads, “When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family.” Grisham’s publisher Suzanne Herz, evp, publisher Vintage/Anchor Books, said in a release, “To have John Grisham’s 49th book return to the world of Mitch and […]