Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group will launch an as-yet-unnamed nonfiction and illustrated book imprint. VP, publishing director Connie Hsu will lead the new imprint, with executive editor Emily Feinberg and associate editor Nico Ore-Giron joining and reporting to her. Hsu will also manage Odd Dot and the Roaring Brook backlist, with Odd Dot publisher Nathalie Le Du reporting to her. “There’s nothing more exciting than starting with a blank canvas and building a vision together with our incredibly talented authors and artists, Hsu said in a release. “It’s all about striking that just-right feeling when text and art come together in […]
Archives for March 2026
Forthcoming: JD Vance’s ‘Communion’
On June 16, Harper will publish COMMUNION: Finding My Way Back to Faith by Vice President JD Vance, “an intimate account of why he strayed from the Christianity of his youth and what led him back to faith,” according to a release. Harper published Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy in 2016. The book will also cover “how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it informs his vision for the future.” Harper group president and publisher Jonathan Burnham acquired North American rights from WME. “COMMUNION will speak to so many searching for faith, connection, and meaning in their lives,” […]
Distribution: Island Press
Princeton University Press will now sell and distribute Island Press worldwide. Island Press became an imprint of PUP on January 1.
Barnes & Noble Book Club
International Booker Prize Finalists
New York Times Book Review Cuts Ties With Freelancer Who Used AI
The NYT Book Review has cut ties with novelist and freelance journalist Alex Preston, after discovering that Preston used AI in creating a recent review. The Wrap reports that a reader flagged Preston’s January 6 review of Watching Over Her by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, which bore similarities to a Guardian review of the same book. The newspaper launched an investigation of the situation and Preston admitted that he’d used AI and failed to catch the pieces that were pulled from the Guardian. Preston has written six other pieces for the paper since 2021 and he denied used AI on any of […]