The National Book Awards announced its Fiction and Nonfiction longlists, with the finalists to be named on October 3.
Archives for September 2023
PYR Partners with Lion Forge Entertainment
Penguin Young Readers has partnered with Lion Forge Entertainment to develop TV and film projects based on their titles. The first titles include Brian McCann’s Wannabe Farms, Tyler Knott Gregson and Sarah Linden’s North Pole Ninjas, M.D. Payne’s Monster Juice series and Francesco Sedita and Prescott Seraydarian’s The Pathfinders Society series. “Lion Forge is the perfect partner to bring some of Penguin’s most exciting properties to screens worldwide,” PYR president Jen Loja said. “With their expertise in engaging diverse audiences with unique yet universal stories, we couldn’t be more excited to see how these projects develop.” Lion Forge Entertainment president […]
Saga Press Expands, Moves to S&S Flagship Imprint
Saga Press announced that it will expand, adding staff members and moving to the S&S flagship imprint from the Gallery group beginning in 2024. Editorial director Joe Monti will report to Tim O’Connell, vice president and editorial director of fiction at Simon & Schuster. Saga Press plans to double its number of titles by 2026. Other changes to the imprint: Nivia Evans will join Saga Press as a senior editor. Evans was previously at Orbit Books. Sareena Kamath has joined as editor. She was most recently at Zando. Christine Calella, senior publicist for Simon & Schuster, will join the Saga […]
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Excerpt Highlights October Romney Biography
A newsmaking excerpt from McKay Coppins’ forthcoming biography ROMNEY: A Reckoning aligned with the Senator’s announcement he will not seek re-election. And the serial in the Atlantic adds the book to the list of high-profile memoirs and biographies looking to lift nonfiction sales this fall. Romney told Coppins of his decision not to run “earlier this year.” He “began meeting with Romney in the spring of 2021. The senator hadn’t told anyone he was talking to a biographer, and we kept our interviews discreet.” The excerpt includes many quotable stories, including the revelation that Romney texted Senator Mitch McConnell on […]
This Is How Real Libraries Work Diligently to Preserve and Provide Out-of-Print eBooks, Legally
This article from a University of California digital librarian describing efforts from the New York Public Library is a wonderful counterpoint to the huffery and puffery from the Internet Archive. The NYPL is actually doing the hard work of complying with the law and working with creators and rightsholders, and innovating on everyone’s behalf along the way, while also managing to digitize and lend legally a corpus of works. Renata Ewing writes: “NYPL’s approach is to work collaboratively with authors and publishers to secure licenses to permit patrons to access in-copyright out-of-print works without impacting the commercial value of those […]