The Telegraph has a nice list of debut novels in the UK market scheduled for publication in the first half of the year. These titles have been announced for US publication this year as well: The Privileges, Jonathan Dee Rupture, Simon Lelic Serious Men, Manu Joseph Ruby’s Spoon, Anna Lawrence Pietroni These three have no announced US sale or publisher yet that we could find: This Bleeding City, Alex Preston Children of the Sun, Max Schaefer Still Point, by Amy Sackville These two are coming in the US, but later: Cross Country Murder Song, Philip Wilding (Vintage has rights)Tiger Hills, […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Kitty Kelley Oprah Bio Set for April 13
Crown will release Kitty Kelley’s 544-page OPRAH: A Biography in a promised “first printing in excess of a half-million copies.” The North American laydown will include a simultaneous ebook edition, along with an audio release. Crown says Kelley had 850 interviews with sources for the book, “many of whom have never before spoken for publication about Winfrey.”
Twilight Graphic Novel Set for March
Hachette Book Group’s Yen Press has announced a March 16 pub date and a 350,000-copy first printing for their first installment of the graphic novel version of Stephenie Meyer’s TWILIGHT. “As is typical in graphic novel publishing, due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into two volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming.” Illustrations are by Korean artist Young Kim.
10 Great Forthcoming Books for 2010
The Boston Herald assembles this list from “publishing experts,” with lots of quotes fom Amazon senior books editor Brad Parsons and a few from Jon Strymish, buyer/manager at New England Mobile Book Fair: 1. War, by Sebastian Junger2. Union Atlantic, by Adam Haslett3. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes4. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith7. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson9. Walking to Gatlinburg: A […]
Bookselling: Marcus Books In Trouble; Touting New Releases
Oakland’s Marcus Books, “the nation’s oldest African American bookstore” is “in deep financial trouble” and faces foreclosure. The Oakland-area NBC station reports that manager (and daughter of the founders) Blanche Richardson blames “a Ponzi scheme and a subprime loan” for the store’s troubles. They “need to raise tens of thousands of dollars to keep the store afloat,” and have started a legal defense fund.NBC site In USA Today, booksellers Elaine Petrocelli of Book Passage, Audrey Bullar of Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Patricia Bostelman at Barnes & Noble, Daphne Durham at Amazon, and Larry Norton at Borders tip these new and forthcoming releases: […]
Founder Buys Back Stone Bridge; Quirk Announces 'Android Karenina'; Jacky Sach to Retire, and More
Founder of Stone Bridge Press Peter Goodman has reacquired 100 percent of the company’s shares from its Japanese owner, IBC Publishing of Tokyo. Goodman sold Stone Bridge to Japanese book distributor Yohan in 2005 and passed to its one-time subsidiary IBC in 2007 right before Yohan declared bankruptcy. Goodman, who has been an executive at Stone Bridge since its founding in 1989, will continue to lead the company as publisher and editor-in-chief from their current offices near North Berkeley, CA. He notes, “The Japanese owners at IBC have always been generous in spirit, and they did the best they could […]