Beginning January 1, Diversion Publishing will move distribution worldwide from Two Rivers to Simon & Schuster. Amber Books, Waxwing Books, and Terminus Media are now sold and distributed in the US and Canada by Baker & Taylor Publisher Services.
Archives for August 2024
Announcing Buzz Books Romance
Today we launch our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection returning for its ninth year, just in time for Steamy Lit Con and Bookstore Romance Day. Buzz Books 2024: Romance is available now, in our biggest-yet compilation, with 21 exclusive pre-publication excerpts. As usual, the “trade edition” is available from Edelweiss and NetGalley with additional publicity and marketing info, along with click-throughs to request full individual galleys. The consumer edition is also ready for download at your ebookstore of choice (Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.) You can register here for the virtual Buzz Romance Editors Panel, on Wednesday, August 21 at 7 pm ET to hear four featured authors from […]
People 8/12
Iowa Book Ban Suit Sent Back to Lower Court
On Friday, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision that halted enacting a book banning law in Iowa. The decision, written by Judge Ralph R. Erickson, says that the lower court’s decision was “based on a flawed analysis of the law” and remanded it back to the district court “for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.” The suit, brought by Penguin Random House and joined by Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Sourcebooks, and several authors, challenged an Iowa law that would remove from schools any book that describes or depicts sex, regardless of […]
Obituary: Betty Prashker
Betty Prashker, 99, former editor in chief of the Crown Publishing Group, died on July 30 at her daughter’s home in the Berkshires. During her 50-year career, she was also associate publisher at Doubleday. Her authors included Jean Auel, Erik Larson, Kate Millett, Judith Krantz, and Dominick Dunne. Former Crown publisher Tina Constable said in a statement, “Without Betty, there would have been no Crown Publishing as we know it…. I am just one of many colleagues who benefitted greatly from her experience, and from her unwaveringly championing advancement and higher pay for women in publishing.” PRH writes in a remembrance, […]