Archives for January 2025
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Season Preview: Nonfiction, Part 2
Our Spring/Summer 2025 Season Preview concludes with notable upcoming books in Politics and Current Events; Social Issues; History and Crime; and Business, Science, and Technology. Titles marked with an * are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer collection, available to download now. The post-election discourse includes books by political figures and those examining our democracy by Chuck Schumer, Mallory McMorrow, Michael Lewis, Lisa Murkowski, Gavin Newsom, and Jeffrey Toobin. In addition, and James Renner delves into the dark side of the Boy Scouts of America, Jefferson Fisher aims to improve how we communicate, and Sophie Elmhirst tells the survival […]
Distribution: Longleaf Adds Three University Presses
The Center for Basque Studies Press at the University of Nevada, Reno is now distributed by Longleaf Services. Longleaf will also distribute The University of Tennessee Press beginning in February and The University Press of Florida beginning in Mrach.
Obituary: Nathalie Dupree
Southern cookbook author Nathalie Dupree, 85, died on Monday in Raleigh, NC. Dupree was the author of 15 cookbooks and hosted, including New Southern Cooking, and hosted more than 300 television episodes.
Unbound Cash Flow Issues Leave Authors, Freelancers Unpaid
UK crowdfunding publisher Unbound has missed payments to authors and other business associates after failing to raise enough money in 2024, the Bookseller reports in a long exclusive story. Payment dates for royalties and other payments have been moved repeatedly, several sources report the magazine. One author said that he has been waiting for payment for more than six months. Another reported that he has not been paid for a book that published in early 2024, and was told in July that “the company could not pay its authors because they had not received ‘promised funds’ that they had reportedly earned […]
Grand Jury Indicts Three People Behind $44 Million PageTurner Scam
A federal grand jury indicted three people behind a publishing scam called PageTurner that defrauded elderly authors out of $44 million. The people arrested were Gemma Traya Austin of Chula Vista, CA, and Michael Cris Traya Sordilla and Bryan Navales Tarosa, both of the Philippines, who ran a company called Innocentrix Philippines. The indictment alleges that between September 2017 and December 2024 representatives for the company placed unsolicited phone calls to elderly authors, represented PageTurner as a book publishing business, claimed Hollywood executives were interested in adapting the authors’ work, and fraudulently convinced victims to send them money for various […]