Penguin Press will publish Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson‘s ORIGINAL SIN: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again on May 20. According to the publisher the book is a “reckoning with one of the most fateful decisions in American political history” and takes readers, “from White House staffers at the highest to lowest levels, to leaders of Congress and the Cabinet, from governors to donors and Hollywood players.”
Distribution: Vanderbilt University Press
The Chicago Distribution Center will distribute Vanderbilt University Press starting July 1.
Authors Guild Urges NEA Grantees and Applicants To Hold Tight; EOs Likely Unenforceable
Donald Trump’s January 20 and 21 executive orders to government agencies to terminate grants promoting DEI or “gender ideology” have sent NEA grant recipients and applicants—both organizations and individual authors—into confusion over the past few weeks. Making the landscape vaguer still is a preliminary injunction blocking those executive orders, in a case brought by higher education organizations and the city of Baltimore. Authors Guild president Mary Rasenberger advises that the NEA’s new rules and mandated “assurance of compliance” that new grant applicants are required to sign are likely unenforceable due to vagueness and unconstitutionality. In particular, new regulations have appeared […]
Last Call for Buzz Books Submissions
We’re still accepting nominations for our next Buzz Books collection, highlighting hotly anticipated titles in Fall 2025 and Winter 2026. Send us your buzziest titles by Thursday, February 27, along with imprint, pub date, and genre (fiction, debut, nonfiction). The Fall/Winter edition will publish on May 14.
New Books Publishing February 25
This week’s fiction releases include books by Curtis Sittenfeld, CJ Box, and Samantha Shannon, while new nonfiction includes work from Chelsea Handler and Michael Wolff. Also publishing this week are titles by Ada Calhoun; Ingrid Ochoa; Ally Malinenko, Linda Epstein, and Liz Parker; and James Renner, all excerpted in our Buzz Books collections. 35 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-25 12 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-25 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. […]
HBG Pauses Warehouse Operations After Hack
Hachette Book Group was the victim of a cyber hack during the weekend of February 14, resulting in a closure of their warehouse. In a statement, a company spokesperson said, “Hachette Book Group became aware of unauthorized activity on our computing systems over Valentine’s Day weekend and out of an abundance of caution we took our systems offline. We closed our warehouse for one day on Tuesday, February 18, and normal shipping has now resumed.” According to an email from the company to booksellers, orders sent on February 17 were not received and tracking information was unavailable. The company’s retailer portal, […]