This week’s fiction includes new work from Harlan Coben and Peter Robinson, as well as Emma Stonex’s debut, The Lamplighters, which was excerpted in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books. In nonfiction, we welcome Chip Gaines’s second punny title, No Pain, No Gaines: The Good Stuff Doesn’t Come Easy; Julia Sweig re-evaluates a beloved first lady, with Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight; and more. 6 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_March_/219162 8 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_March_/219163 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing March 9
This week, Walter Isaacson’s timely history of the CRISPR gene editing is among the nonfiction releases, alongside a bevy of new fiction, including Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were, Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, and Thomas Grattan’s debut Recent East. Amanda Dennis’s Her Here, an existential detective story, was excerpted in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books, downloadable here. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_March_/219096 6 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_March_/219097 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make […]
Forthcoming: New EL James Book In June
As part of the recently-announced initiative in which E L James will move her backlist to Sourcebooks and serve as “keystone author” in a new imprint providing a “joint publishing model” a new publication has been announced. FREED, the conclusion to James’s Fifty Shades Trilogy as Told by Christian series will publish on June 1, from the Sourcebooks imprint Bloom Books. (They will publish in North America and the open market.) James says in the release, “I am thrilled to announce the publication date for Freed. This story has been a labour of love, one that my readers have been […]
New Books Publishing March 2
This week brings new fiction from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sister Souljah, and Danielle Steel, as well as four titles that were featured in our Buzz Books: Gregory Brown’s The Lowering Days, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, and Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country (YA). Meanwhile, Isabel Allende and Anne Lamott anchor the week’s nonfiction list. 26 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-2 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_March_/219038 7 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-2 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_March_/219040 29 new children’s and YA titles this month https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-march https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_March/219037 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the […]
People, Etc.
At Grand Central, Wes Miller has been promoted to executive editor, and Seema Mahanian to senior editor, Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka each become assistant editor, and Kirsiah McNamara becomes assistant editor and digital & paperback coordinator. Albert Tang becomes vice president, creative director. Andy Dodds has been promoted to publicity director and Kamrun Nesa to senior publicist. Joseph Benincase becomes assistant director, marketing and Morgan Swift associate marketing manager. At Forever, Estelle Hallick has been promoted to associate director, marketing & publicity, and Sam Brody to assistant editor. Robert Messenger will join Simon & Schuster as senior editor, starting March 1, where he will “acquire […]
People, Etc.
Yezanira Venecia has joined Soho Press as assistant editor acquiring for the Soho Crime imprint. She was previously at Skyhorse Publishing. Shannon Fabricant has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press; Britny Brooks to associate editor; and Marissa Raybuck and Rachel Peckman to designer. Kara Thornton has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal. Adriann Ranta Zurhellen has joined Folio Literary Management as literary agent. She was most recently at YRG Partners and Foundry. At Sourcebooks, Katia Herrara has been promoted to senior manager of ecommerce and Morgan Vogt to online marketing […]