The Next of the Best of the Best Books of 2024
With about 50 “votes” counted, we are closing in on our final aggregations of the very best of the “best books of the year,” now with full lists in all of our tracked categories. The fiction picks remain dominant, in keeping with the year’s sales and mood, and Percival Everett’s JAMES towers above all others. The rest of the adult lists are pretty firm at this point, with a little room at the bottom, particularly among nonfiction. Next week we’ll share the PM staff’s own picks and at the end of the week we will publish the final lists, with editor, […]
Sourcebooks Audio to Launch In 2025
In January a new Sourcebooks Audio line will release its first titles, initially producing audio versions of mysteries from Poisoned Pen Press and romance novels from Sourcebooks Casablanca, as well as nonfiction from the Callisto imprint. Catherine Bucaria is vp, publisher of Sourcebooks Audio, having previously served as director of audio strategy & acquisitions at Penguin Random House, and Almeda Beynon is director of audio production, after working as executive producer of audio at Harper Collins. The Sourcebook Audio lines will operate as imprints within Penguin Random House Audio. (PRH owns 75 percent of Sourcebooks, though the publisher operates independently.) […]
Shelley On His Beginnings, Mission, And Creating a Safe Space to Fail
The newest episode of Open Road’s Open Book podcast features Hachette US and UK ceo David Shelley, who discusses his beginnings in publishing and rapid rise as an editorial assistant at Allison & Busby and his goals for Hachette. His mission for Hachette in both countries is based on four pillars: understanding consumers, ownership mentality, growth mindset, and changing the story (the company’s DEI initiatives). The pillars, he said, “infuse everything” and come up in employees’ meetings and performance reviews. “I’m very passionate about the idea that within our organization, within Hachette, what good looks like, you have to really […]
Center For Fiction First Novel Prize
Harper UK and 4th Estate Launch Monument Books
In the UK, HarperCollins and 4th Estate have partnered with author Reni Eddo-Lodge to launch a new imprint called Monument Books in February 2025. Eddo-Lodge, who is the author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, will serve as editor-at-large alongside publishing director Kishani Widyaratna and the 4th Estate team. The imprint will put out three titles a year across nonfiction and select fiction and classics. “We seek to champion distinctive writers from across the world and to help them spark ideas, make change and shape the cultural conversation,” write the publishers in the mission statement. “Our books […]