Lisa Scottoline and Garrard Conley publish new novels this week, while nonfiction includes works by Hanif Abdurraqib and Fareed Zakaria. Also out this week are IF THE TIDE TURNS by Rachel Rueckert, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer anthology, and THE EMPEROR AND THE ENDLESS PALACE by Justinian Huang, available to sample in our Buzz Books 2023: Romance collection. 14 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-26 10 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-26 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our […]
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Obituaries: de Brunhoff, Vinge
French author-illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, 98, died on March 22 from complications of a stroke. De Brunhoff wrote and illustrated the Babar picture books after the death of his father, Jean, who created the character. Science fiction author Vernor Vinge, 79, died on March 20 from Parkinson’s Disease. Vinge won Hugo Awards for his novels A FIRE UPON THE DEEP, A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, and RAINBOWS END.
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At IPG, Kristen Noon has been promoted from to director, credit & collections.
Redesigned Search, Better Matches
Today we are live with the last major piece of the Publishers Marketplace redesign we began rolling out 10 months ago: A new look for our sitewide search engine, and therefore the search results from all of our different databases. The development team has worked hard on improving the results for mobile devices in particular. (We have updated the guidance/tips on how to use site search as well.) Separately, we have pushed an update to our AI-powered Agent Matcher, too. Filters let you adjust matches to agents that we know are open (or closed) to queries; and agents by experience […]