Our newest free ebook Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer is packed with nearly 60 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for the upcoming publishing season. For the trade editions—with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys—you can download through NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer editions of Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple, and Google Play. Authors to be featured on our upcoming Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel on Wednesday, January 24 are noted with asterisks. (REGISTER HERE for the panel now). Meanwhile, here are all of the forthcoming books […]
Our Next Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel
We are open for registration for our next virtual Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel, Wednesday, January 24th at 7 PM Eastern. As always, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with Leigh Haber hosting. You can register here—and the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On January 16th, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next packed edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer, with substantial excerpts from all of the Editors Panel books, along with dozens of other not-yet-published breakout titles. […]
Ask an Expert: Vicky Bijur
Vicky Bijur started her eponymous literary agency in 1988 after working at Oxford University Press and for the Charlotte Sheedy Agency. She represents fiction and non-fiction and has served as president of the Association of Authors’ Representatives, now the Association of American Literary Agents (AALA). She has been on the AALA Royalties Committee since 1993 and is chair of the AALA Ethics Committee. What are some questions to ask a prospective agent? 1) Will you keep me reasonably informed throughout the process of selling my book? For example, can we discuss the list of publishers to whom you would submit […]
Authors Talk: Elizabeth Crook
The Madstone. (Little, Brown & Company, November 7, 2023. Editor: Ben George. Agent: Gail Hochman, Brandt & Hochman.) Elizabeth Crook has published five previous novels, including The Which Way Tree, The Night Journal, which received the Spur Award from Western Writers of America, and Monday, Monday, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 and winner of the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. She lives in Austin, TX with her family. How did you find your agent? In 1990 a friend introduced me to James (Jim) Landis, who was then editor-in-chief of William Morrow. Jim was […]
Call for Spring/Summer Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer samplers will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview/overview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable spring/summer titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now […]
Ask an Expert: Deb Futter, President and Publisher, Celadon
Deb Futter is the president and publisher of Celadon Books. Prior to this role, she was the publisher of Twelve and vice president and editor-in-chief at Grand Central Publishing; previously, she spent 25 years at Random House Inc. She has acquired and edited numerous bestselling and acclaimed books by authors including Abby Wambach, Barbara Ehrenreich, Carole King, Jane Hamilton, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Min Jin Lee, Noah Hawley, Pete Dexter, Scott Turow, and Steve Martin, among many others. What criteria do you think about when you consider a work of fiction by a debut author? I like a book to be […]