Dylan Thomas Prize
The Dylan Thomas Prize announced finalists, with the winner to be named on May 16.
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At PRH, Valerie Van Delft, senior vice president of logistics, will retire this August.
Forthcoming: FRAMED by John Grisham
On October 8, Doubleday will publish John Grisham‘s FRAMED: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions, written with Centurion Ministries founder Jim McCloskey. It is the author’s first nonfiction book since 2006. “Since I published THE INNOCENT MAN in 2006, I have wanted to write more true stories about wrongful convictions,” Grisham said in a release. “From a pure storytelling perspective, they are incredible because the drama has so many layers: Suffering, corruption, waste, faith, perseverance, and, hopefully, redemption – it’s all there in every case. From a moral perspective, it is imperative for a society to face and correct injustice. […]
Distribution: Library Tales Publishing
Simon & Schuster will handle sales and distribution worldwide for Library Tales Publishing.
Call for Fall/Winter Season Preview Listings
Our forthcoming Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter sampler will include, as usual, extensive seasonal preview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs; our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable fall/winter titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, along with drop-ins and rescheduled releases — now is […]