Buzz Books Spring/Summer Season Preview: Fiction
It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned spring and summer titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most noteworthy literary, commercial, and breakout titles for adults in fiction and nonfiction, separated into key categories. You can sample some of the highlighted titles right now in Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer; they are noted with an asterisk. And please remember: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change. The coming publishing season is packed with big names and […]
MWA Special Awards
Gaiman Responds to Abuse Reports
On his website, Neil Gaiman responded to allegations that he sexually abused several women. As he has previously, he denies ever having non-consensual sexual activity with anyone, and noted that his relationships with the women who reported abuse seemed positive at the time. “As I read through this latest collection of accounts, there are moments I half-recognise and moments I don’t, descriptions of things that happened sitting beside things that emphatically did not happen…I went back to read the messages I exchanged with the women around and following the occasions that have subsequently been reported as being abusive. These messages […]
Obituary: Peter Bolza
Hungarian literary agent Peter Bolza, 63, died on January 11 of “a very rapid and serious illness,” according to his wife, Ágnes Füle. Founded in 1995, Kátai & Bolza is the largest literary agency in Hungary.
New Books Publishing January 14
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Nnedi Okorafor, Lisa Genova, and Scott Turow, while new nonfiction includes work from Pope Francis and Brooke Shields. Also publishing this week is Clever Little Thing by Helena Echlins, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-14 13 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-14 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 […]