We continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from Netgalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. And don’t forget to register for our much anticipated virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening next Wednesday, May 19 at 7 PM Eastern, co-presented by the American Booksellers Association. Buzz Books Fall/Winter includes work from Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, and Kimberly McCreight. The upcoming season will see some of the biggest names in fiction publish new books, including Liane Moriarty, Ken Follett, Nicholas […]
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Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Literary & Debut Fiction
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 […]
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Karen Ma has joined the Indigo sales team at Penguin Random House Canada as sales manager. Previously, she was in sales at Harper Canada. Jessica Reid has been promoted to online & digital sales representative, focusing on Amazon sales. Hatty Stiles has been named associate rights director at Amazon Publishing. Awards The Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature, named winners. Fiebre Tropical, by Juliana Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, while 99 Erics, by Julia Serano (Switch Hitter Press) won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. A full list […]
The Complete Buzz Books Fall/Winter Titles
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 […]
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Rivka Holler has been promoted to marketing coordinator for Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s. Senior agent Elizabeth Bennett becomes partner at the Transatlantic Agency. Catherine Cho has launched the new agency Paper Literary. She was at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. Forthcoming Colin Kaepernick‘s publishing company announced their first title — but it’s still not his memoir. (That was due last year, after a deal with Harper One in 2016 and another reported deal with One World in late 2017 also did not result in a published memoir.) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons is an […]
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At Delacorte, Kelsey Horton has been promoted to senior editor and Alison Romig has been promoted to assistant editor. Merry Sun has been promoted to editor at Portfolio. Jordan Moblo has joined Netflix in the new role of director of literary, and is expected to hire a team under him. He was co-head of the creative acquisitions department at Disney. Renée Jarvis and Kima Jones both join Triangle House Literary as agents. Jarvis was at MacKenzie Wolf Literary; Jones is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts. Grace Ross has joined Acast as content development manager, acquiring new and existing podcast partners. […]