New Books Publishing January 21
Rebecca Yarros and Han Kang publish new novels this week, while new nonfiction includes work from Kristen Martin, Markus Zusak, and Naomi Watts. Also out this week is My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance sampler. 13 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-21 11 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-21 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 on Bookshop. Check out January‘s 80 fiction releases, 38 works of nonfiction, […]
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.
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 […]
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Season Preview: Nonfiction, Part 1
This season’s nonfiction brings new, and newly translated, work from some of literature’s greatest thinkers and writers, including W.G. Sebald, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Yiyun Li, Maggie Smith, and J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos. The season also brings several examinations of and stories from the media trenches, with Steve Oney’s book on NPR, Michael Grynbaum’s on Condé Nast, Christine Wenc’s on The Onion, and memoirs from Graydon Carter and Barry Diller. Memoirs continue to hold a strong place on publisher lists, with upcoming titles from Melissa Febos, Amanda Knox, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Lidia Yuknavitch, and […]