Buzz21

Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. Did you download your copy yet? The “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. As usual, we begin our free ebook with a broad overview of the upcoming publishing season, featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. We’ll be presenting extracts from that season preview in the coming days. There are plenty of notable names with new books out this fall, including new work […]

As we previewed Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter arrives this week packed with 51 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 consumers editions are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle,   Nook, Apple Books,  Google Play, and Kobo. Authors to be featured on our upcoming Buzz Books Editors Panel on Wednesday, May 19 are noted with an asterisk. (Register for the panel now). Here […]

Today we launch our big Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter digital sampler, now in its twelfth year. With in-person events still shut down, and digital promotion continuing to take on a central role, we present excerpts from 51 of the most buzzed-about books scheduled for publication this fall and winter in an exclusive, free ebook. It’s all the fun and discovery of a convention floor, in an easy work-from-home package. Most Publishers Lunch readers will want the trade editions of Buzz Books, which include marketing/publicity and rights information and contacts for all of the titles, plus easy click-throughs to read or request full digital galleys on […]

Remember to hold the date for our much anticipated virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 PM Eastern, co-presented by the American Booksellers Association. You can register here — and the first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. In May, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next packed edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter, with substantial excerpts from all of the featured titles along with dozens of other breakout new titles on the way.   The panel will feature these […]

We had a terrific session on with Wednesday, with seven authors worthy of your attention for their forthcoming books in conversations with their editors — along with some needed comic relief from authors Patty Marx and Roz Chast. If you missed any of it, you can watch the recording at http://publun.ch/BBEditorsPanel. Just paste in the passcode: cEzg!m7+ Thanks very much again to the ABA for joining us as co-presenter and helping to fill the virtual room with eager booksellers, along with everyone who helped spread the word, including NetGalley, Publishing Perspectives, Shelf Awareness, Bookselling this Week, and others — and […]

Don’t miss our Buzz Books Editors Panel tonight at 7 PM EST. Make sure you register now if you have not done so already, which makes you eligible for any additional galley releases from publishers. Or we’ll be showing it live through our Facebook page as well. Thanks to our co-presenter the American Booksellers Association, plus kind enthusiasm from the community, we are expecting a packed virtual room. Moderator Jake Cumsky-Whitlock at Solid State Books in Washington, DC, will join co-hosts and authors Roz Chast and Patricia Marx, as well as seven great editors previewing some of the season’s most exciting […]