Starting August 1, Apex Book Company, SHP, Sam and Mi, and Measure Publishing will be distributed worldwide by Independent Publishers Group. IPG will distribute One Peace Books starting January 1. Penzler Publishers will be sold and distributed in the US and Canada by Simon & Schuster, starting February 1, moving from Norton.
New Books Publishing July 15
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Lisa Scottoline, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Stacey Abrams, while new nonfiction includes work from Michael M. Grynbaum and Tim Weiner. 32 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-15 16 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-15 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out July‘s 151 fiction releases, 46 works of nonfiction, and 34 children’s titles; August‘s 50 fiction releases, 26 works of nonfiction, and 16 children‘s titles; and September‘s 91 fiction releases, 81 works of nonfiction, […]
Hodder & Stoughton Closes Coronet
UK publisher Hodder & Stoughton will close its Coronet imprint and lay off four editorial staff members, The Bookseller reports. Coronet authors will be moved to other imprints. Publisher Hannah Black, editorial directors Veronique Norton and Anna Mrowiec, and editor Tom Atkins, will leave the company on July 18. “I want to thank the Coronet team members for their energy, creativity, and commitment and we wish them all every success in their next chapters,” managing director Jennifer Wilson said.
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Kate McKean is a literary agent at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency in Brooklyn, NY, whose clients include Alix E. Harrow, Daniel M. Lavery, and Mattie Lubchansky. She was an adjunct professor at New York University for over a decade and earned her MA in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi. Her work has appeared in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, Catapult, and elsewhere. She writes the popular Substack newsletter, Agents & Books, at AgentsandBooks.com. When is an author ready to query their work? I think authors are ready to query when, first, they’ve addressed, edited, fixed all […]