Pamela Dorman is senior vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking. In her more than thirty years at Viking Penguin, Dorman has published multimillion-copy, #1 New York Times bestsellers by Kim Edwards, Helen Fielding, Gail Honeyman, Sue Monk Kidd, Jacquelyn Mitchard, and Jojo Moyes. She began her publishing career at St. Martin’s Press and is a summa cum laude graduate of Wesleyan University. Is there one problem you see in books that you wish writers knew before their manuscripts made it to your desk? There are many! A couple off the top of my head: Try reading some of your […]
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Forthcoming: Maria Shriver’s I AM MARIA, John Green’s EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS
On April 1, Maria Shriver‘s The Open Field imprint will publish her own book, I AM MARIA: My Poems and Reflections on Healing, Heartbreak, and Hope. According to a release, the book “combines Shriver’s hard-earned wisdom with her own deeply personal poetry and reminds readers there is strength, love, and hope on the other side of our hardest days.” Penguin Life, Viking, and Penguin Books president and publisher Brian Tart said, “Maria Shriver has written a book that will inspire readers everywhere to look beyond others’ expectations and labels to find their true selves. After years of searching, she accomplished […]
New Books Publishing October 22
This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Jeff VanderMeer, V. C. Andrews, and Susanna Clarke, while Alexei Navalny, André Aciman, and Jenny Slate publish nonfiction, along with Seth Godin in one of the first releases from Authors Equity. Also out this week are new books by Kari Leibowitz and Anna Montague, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, and Beth Reekles and Deanna Faison, featured in our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection. 17 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-22 19 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-22 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult […]
2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals
Today, President Biden will present the 2022 and 2023 National Humanities Medals to several writers: Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jon Meacham, Anthony Bourdain (posthumous), LeVar Burton, Roz Chast, and Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Frankfurt Reports Higher Attendance
As the Frankfurt Book Fair wound down, the fair announced that attendance was up by 9 percent for the three trade-focused days of the event, October 16-18. They estimate 114,000 total badge scans–many of whom were likely the same people returning to the Messe day after day–for an average of 38,000 attendees each day. The organization reported 105,000 badge scans for the same three days in 2023, (up from 93,000 in 2022). On the ground, many attendees felt that the fair was the busiest it had been since the pandemic. According to Fair administration, there were 4,300 exhibitors this year, […]