The best way to actually “buzz” about books at BEA is by sampling the work itself, and that’s the original reason we created our successful, now year-round Publishers Lunch Buzz Books program two years ago. While we can’t tell you for certain which of the latest group of titles are this year’s The Yellow Birds, The Light Between Oceans, The Orchardist, The Rosie Project, Burial Rites, or The Woman Who Lost Her Soul our track record is clear: Many of the titles excerpted exclusively in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter are going to populate lists of the best books of the […]
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Weekend Reading: Over 50 BEA Discoveries to Start Now
It’s been rewarding to see readers responding enthusiastically to our new free ebook samplers, now presenting substantial excerpts from over 30 general trade books in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter, plus for the first time a separate collection of over 20 excerpts in Buzz Books 2014: Young Adult. Twenty seven of the authors featured in the two collections will be appearing at BEA and BookCon later this month, and of course for people not attending the shows our Buzz Books are a great way of sampling many of the big discoveries from home. To download the trade editions for your weekend reading, go to this page for […]
Two Big Books of BEA Buzz
With BEA itself just two weeks away, the real convention business of discovering, sampling and sharing big new “discovery” books for the fall/winter publishing seasons begins today. Our new free ebook Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter presents substantial, pre-publication excerpts from over 30 forthcoming books — including a dozen authors who will be at the convention. We have highly-touted debuts (from Matthew Thomas, Jessie Burton, Katy Simpson Smith, Nayomi Munaweera, Audrey Magee, Judy Chicurel and more); headliners (Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming, Billy Idol, Peter Thiel); serious nonfiction (Morten Storm, Matt Richtel); established authors (Deborah Harkness, Lev Grossman, John Scalzi, Tana French, Michael Faber); […]
The Last Chance for Some BEA Buzz Samples
Before we announce our newest Buzz Books authors for BEA and beyond into the fall/winter publishing season, it’s worth noting that our Spring/Summer edition of Buzz Books has quietly featured a number of BEA authors and books. (Because Winter Institute was early this year, we published our Spring Buzz Books sampler in mid-January, but it featured samples of titles for release all the way through the first week of August.) Over a dozen of the titles sampled are still to come. You’ll find featured at BEA a signing by debut novelist Malcolm Brooks (Painted Horses) and a Book Con appearance […]
May Book Picks
Amazon‘s best books of the month for May features Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide as the “spotlight” title and Joel Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair as their featured debut. Two of our Spring/Summer Buzz Books make the list as well — which means you can start reading them right now ahead of publication, along with over 20 other potential breakout titles due over the next few months: Natchez Burning, Greg Iles Young God, Katherine Faw Morris The rest of the Amazon list for May features: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris The Painter, Peter Heller The […]
ABA Names New Indies Introduce Titles
The American Booksellers Association announced their summer/fall 2014 list of Indies Introduce Debut Authors, picked “as the brightest debuts of the coming season.” You can start reading the highlighted novels by Malcolm Brooks and Courtney Collins right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014 Spring/Summer. (We published our packed sampler a little early this year, because the ABA’s Winter Institute was earlier than usual — but the bulk of the featured 40 excerpts come to market between late April and early July. So we still feature exclusive, and substantial, pre-publication looks at about 25 potential breakouts coming to market […]