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Viewers of Tuesday night’s Buzz Books Romance panel got an early peek at five swoon-worthy forthcoming books via lively discussions between their authors and editors. It was a diverse group of titles covering dark, contemporary, sports, military, and fantasy romance—and if you couldn’t attend live, you can now watch the conversations on YouTube. For Jane Costello, author of tennis romance FORTY LOVE, it was important to write a romance novel with representation of older women: “I got to my late 40s and I just couldn’t find exactly the book I wanted to read… where the main protagonist was my age… […]

There’s still time to register to attend our Buzz Books Romance online panel event, happening tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 12) at 7pm Eastern. You’ll hear from the following authors discussing their forthcoming #BuzzBooksOfficial books with their editors: Jane Costello – FORTY LOVE (Zibby Books, edited by Coralie Hunter), a “laugh-out-loud romantic comedy for the menopausing audience,” in which a single mom joins a tennis club to help with her anxiety—but will her sexy encounters with an old school crush put her on course to a devastating double fault? K.M. Moronova – LEAVE ME BEHIND (Bloom Books, edited by Christa Desir), in which the […]

We are excited to launch a brand new Buzz Books website! Please visit buzz.publishersmarketplace.com to keep up with our live events, download our samplers of the season’s buzziest forthcoming titles, and subscribe to our new BuzzBooksOfficial newsletter (coming soon). This is also pub day for our latest free eBook sampler, Buzz Books: Romance 2025 — just in time for the wonderful Bookstore Romance Day on August 9. This all-romance issue features prepublication excerpts from 18 books that showcase the full range of the genre: from contemporary and romantasy, rom-com and dark romance, YA, sports romance, paranormal, western, and more. Now, […]

Our first-ever Buzz Books Editors & Authors Nonfiction Panel captured fascinating discussions of four forthcoming books worthy of your attention, and now you can watch them all on YouTube. Dr. Gerta Keller Ph.D was “met with open mockery” and “shouted down” at an academic conference when she first presented evidence that dinosaurs were made extinct by volcanic eruptions rather than an asteroid, setting off the “impact war” in which her work has prevailed. Christine Kuehn tells the truly unbelievable story of discovering only as an adult her family’s dark secret: High-ranking Nazi Party members, her grandfather had interviewed to be head […]

It’s your last chance to register for our inaugural Buzz Books Editors & Authors Nonfiction panel, happening tonight at 7pm, and featuring four authors of the biggest nonfiction titles for fall/winter 2025 in live conversation with their editors. We hope to see you there! Char Adams and her editor Emi Ikkanda discuss BLACK-OWNED: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIFE OF THE BLACK BOOKSTORE, a compelling and rigorously reported history of Black political movements, told through the lens of Black-owned bookstores. Christine Kuehn and her editor Ryan Doherty discuss FAMILY OF SPIES: A WORLD WAR II STORY OF NAZI ESPIONAGE, BETRAYAL, AND THE SECRET HISTORY BEHIND PEARL HARBOR, the story of one family’s shocking involvement […]