Penguin Workshop will launch Tinker, a new publishing program, starting with six titles in spring 2027. Publisher Daniel Moreton and editorial director Nick Magliato will lead the line, with art direction by Lynn Portnoff. Tinker will publish “commercial design-forward board and picture books ‘built for play’ for readers ages 0-10,” featuring everything from “accordion die-cuts to pop-up alphabet books—to books that transform into steering wheels, where the book itself becomes the toy.”
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Forthcoming: ‘Blockers’ by Michael Lewis; A Memoir From Joe Biden
Norton and Pushkin Industries will publish BLOCKERS: Rebels in the Deep State by Michael Lewis on October 6. Norton will publish the hardcover and Pushkin will produce and release an audiobook edition, available exclusively at blockers.fm for the first three weeks of publication. Norton writes in the announcement, “In BLOCKERS, Lewis views the “meteor strike” of the second Trump administration through the eyes of the public servants targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As he says, ;Every now and then the world hands you the material for a wild story. The collision between the Trump Administration and the civil service is one of […]
US Book Show Sessions on AI, Growth
At the US Book Show ceo panel, Publishers Weekly editorial director Jonathan Segura asked executives how they are wrestling with the problem of detecting AI-generated content in manuscripts. HBG ceo Shelley didn’t reference the cancelled SHY GIRL or have a specific answer, saying that the company doesn’t have a systemic way of checking for AI authorship. He said that AI-detection programs are largely imperfect and that authors have concerns about having their work fed into such tool. He also doesn’t want to encourage a “culture of suspicion or disbelief of authors,” but said that the company has a contractual policy […]
Tonight: Join Us for the Buzz Books Nonfiction Panel Featuring Anna Lembke, MD, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Eric Idle, Radha Agrawal, and Tarajia Morrell
After a superb fiction panel last week, we are continuing the celebration of our Fall/Winter Buzz Books sampler with our Nonfiction Authors & Editors Panel tonight Thursday, June 4, at 7pm Eastern. Join us! Hosted by Mary Ann Naples, the panel includes conversations with Eric Idle, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Radha Agrawal, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Tarajia Morrell, and Anna Lembke, MD. Sign up here. We’ll be giving away copies of all the galleys discussed. Download your free Fall/Winter ’26 sampler here to read all the excerpts.
Distribution: Lakeside Book Company, Longleaf Services
Lakeside Book Company will sell and distribute Red Racer Books in the US and Canada starting July 1 and Calla Press Publishing starting September 1. They will also print, sell, and distribute in the US and Canada Voices of Tomorrow Press starting this month and WarGate Books starting September 1. Longleaf Services will sell and distribute: Washington State University Press; The Pennsylvania State University Press; and Hong Kong University Press in the US starting in 2027.