This week’s fiction releases include new books by Stephen King, Ruth Ware, Joyce Carol Oates, and Kevin Kwan, while Sebastian Junger and Daniel Handler publish new nonfiction works. Also out this week are I WANT YOU MORE by Swan Huntley and THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Stuart Turton, both of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology. 38 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-21 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-21 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM […]
Plutarch Award
Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo won the Plutarch Award for the best biography of 2023.
People 5/20
Some Publishers Begin to Add AI Language to Contracts
As publishers continue to experiment with generative AI for in-house processes, three of the big five publishers—Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group, and Macmillan—have begun including language surrounding AI in their contracts. These three publishers have boilerplate language available stating that the publisher will not license or use an author’s work to train AI without the author’s express permission—a win for agents and the Authors Guild, which updated their model contract with an AI clause last year. In many cases, the new language is not standard to the publishers’ contracts, but will be added if an author or agent asks […]
People 5/17
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Season Preview: Fiction
Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley and Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. It’s another exciting season of new books ahead. Readers will find their way to the books previewed here and others yet to be discovered. To help you sift through the many thousands of planned fall and winter titles, we’ve selected what we think are among the most […]