The Authors Guild Foundation announced a $10 million “capacity building” campaign—the largest ever for the organization. The foundation has already received more than $5.6 million from prominent authors including David and Michelle Baldacci, Suzanne Collins and Charles “Cap” Pryor, John and Renee Grisham, James Patterson, and Doug and Christine Preston, who pledged to donate $1 million each. The organization says that $3 million will go “to increase services, legal and support staff, and advocacy initiatives,” and $7 million will fund an endowment “to support the Guild in perpetuity.” Other major donors so far include Judy Blume, who has designated her […]
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Sonali Fry has been promoted to VP, publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers and executive director, Little Tiger.
Obituary: Tina Cameron
Simon & Schuster senior production manager Tina Cameron died on January 20. Cameron worked at HarperCollins and Abrams before joining S&S in 2017 as senior production manager for distribution clients. In a memo to staff, executive director, production Lisa Erwin said, “Tina will be remembered as a consummate professional: knowledgeable, eager to do a good job, and especially dedicated to our clients. Her can-do attitude was a great asset to the production department. She will be greatly missed here at Simon & Schuster by her colleagues and clients alike. Most of all, we will remember Tina as a good friend, […]
Hugo Awards Statistics Raise Questions About ‘Ineligible’ Works
This weekend, a comprehensive document of voting statistics for the 2023 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards was released—standard practice for the sci-fi awards that are given annually at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). But as those in the sci-fi community looked into the details, they seem anything but standard. In June, many readers were surprised to see that R.F. Kuang’s BABEL—which won the Nebula and Locus awards—was not among the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The newly-released document notes that BABEL, despite getting the third most nominating votes, was found ineligible for the award. It is unclear […]
New Books Publishing January 23
Robyn Carr and Kaveh Akbar publish new fiction this week, while nonfiction includes work by Keith Boykin and Benjamin Herold. Also out this week are new books by Venita Blackburn, Kemper Donovan, Antonia Hylton, Elizabeth Gonzalez James, and Opal Wei, all excerpted in our Buzz Books anthologies. 21 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-16 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-23 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, 40 works […]
Forthcoming: Yuval Noah Harari’s NEXUS
On September 10, Penguin Random House will publish NEXUS: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari worldwide. The Random House imprint will publish in the US and Penguin Random House will publish in Canada, the UK, Germany, Spain, Latin America, Brazil, and Portugal. The publisher describes NEXUS as looking “through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has made, and unmade, our world.” “NEXUS is the perfect book for the age in which we are living, and the precarious place in which we find ourselves right […]