Anthony LaSasso has joined Steerforth Press as publicity director. He was most recently at Sterling Publishing. Jennifer Udden has left New Leaf Literary & Media to do freelance editing. Lydia Zoells has been promoted to assistant editor at MCD/Farrar, Straus. Evelyn M. Duffy, longtime researcher for Bob Woodward, is launching a her own Washington D.C.-based editing and coaching firm for nonfiction writers in 2021. Duffy has edited and coached other journalists on their books, and worked on the drafting, reporting, editing, production and marketing for Woodward’s six books since 2007. Forthcoming Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are co-writing a book […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing December 1
A wealth of new books arrive today, including 18 fiction and 19 nonfiction titles. In fiction, highlights include a new Jane Smiley and Indie Next pick The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister, as well as one of our 2020 Romance Buzz Book selections, Denise William’s How to Fail at Flirting. Nonfiction releases include Ijeoma Oluo’s Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, a new “Badass” title from Jen Sincero, life advice from Tina Turner, and a book of David Katz’ photographs of Barack Obama. 18 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-december-1 19 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-december-1 New children’s and YA […]
People, Etc.
Kelsey Nolan has joined Ze Books and Unnamed Press as a publicity and marketing manager. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times as the events programming manager. Cindy Kim has been promoted to associate editor for Little Simon. Andree Abecassis, 81, died November 4 at home in Berkeley, CA, following a brief struggle with cancer. For many years she worked at Ann Elmo Agency, founded by two of her aunts, and recently she had started working with Heyday Books. Best of 2020 The New York Public Library released their Best Books package, which includes top 10s for adults, poetry, […]
New Books Publishing November 24
This week, a slimmer selection of new books includes some big names in fiction, including Ernest Cline, Philippa Gregory, and Nora Roberts. In nonfiction, highlights include Bruce McCall’s memoir and Harold Bloom’s take on Western literature’s most essential novels. 8 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-24 9 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-november-24 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 sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as […]
New Books Publishing November 17
Yes, Barack Obama’s memoir publishes today, but it is joined by a wealth of high-profile new releases. There are also memoirs and personal essays from Rachel Bloom, Cazzie David, Ree Drummond, Michael J. Fox, Dolly Parton — and new fiction from David Baldacci, Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, Brandon Sanderson and Danielle Steel, plus Rupi Kaur’s third collection of poetry, and still more. The week will include the National Book Awards on Wednesday night and the Booker Prize selection on Thursday. With the NYT about to publishing their lists of 100 Notable Books and the top 10 books of […]
Briefs: New Books From Franzen and Bridges, Chronicle Expands In Games and Toys
Forthcoming FSG will publish a new novel by Jonathan Franzen, titled CROSSROADS, the first in his trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, in October 2021. The publisher writes that the novel is “the beginning of a story that encompasses all the ‘mythologies’—the political, religious, and intellectual crosscurrents—that have animated and troubled American life in recent decades.” FSG president Jonathan Galassi said, “Franzen has been universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, an inheritor of Steinbeck and Faulkner. He has been telling us the inner history of contemporary America in novel after novel, from The Twenty-Seventh City to The Corrections to Freedom, culminating now […]