Walter Mosley, Banana Yoshimoto, and Jhumpa Lahiri publish new fiction this week, while new nonfiction includes work by Werner Herzog, Roxane Gay, Julia Fox and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also out this week are new books by Isa Arsén, Charlene Carr, Justin Torres, Bryan Washington, and Kacen Callender, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2023 collections. 22 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-10 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-10 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months […]
Acquisitions: PRH UK Buys Hardie Grant UK
Penguin Random House UK has acquired Hardie Grant UK. Hardie Grant’s two imprints, Hardie Grant UK and Quadrille, will continue operating and report to Ebury managing director Joel Rickett. Managing director Stephen King will leave at the end of 2023 and finance director David Ersapah will depart in July 2024. The Bookseller reports that there are no other plans for layoffs. At Hardie Grant, there will be no changes to the company in other territories. In a release, PRH UK ceo Tom Weldon said, “We are excited about the impact of adding Hardie Grant UK to Penguin Random House and […]
Distribution: Wizards of the Coast; Hampton Creek Press
On December 31, Penguin Random House will cease distribution of Wizards of the Coast, which publishes Dungeons & Dragons titles. WotC books have been distributed by PRH since 2005. In a memo to retailers, PRH wrote, “Depending on the product, please ensure that the vendor of record for Wizards of the Coast LLC titles is changed to one of their new distributors listed here: [Distributors]” Hampton Creek Press will be distributed by Simon & Schuster worldwide, beginning November 1.
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2023 MacArthur Fellows
The MacArthur Foundation announced their annual “Genius” fellows, including writers Ada Limón (whose most recent book is The Hurting Kind), Manuel Muñoz (The Consequences), and Imani Perry (South to America). Also named is Diana Greene Foster, author of The Turnaway Study: Ten Years, a Thousand Women, and the Consequences of Having—or Being Denied—an Abortion.
Harper Will No Longer Publish Book About Jamal Khashoggi
Harper Collins will no longer publish SAY YOUR WORD, THEN LEAVE: The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and the Power of the Truth by Karen Attiah, the author shared on social media. Attiah was Khashoggi’s friend and editor at the Washington Post. “After nearly four years of writing the book, meeting every deadline, my (now former) publisher inexplicably stopped the editing process, forcing me to pull the book,” she wrote. The book, which was sold by Anthony Mattero at CAA to Dey Street in 2019, was slated for publication in February 2024 but no longer appears on retailer sites or the […]