Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Book 2023: Spring/Summer sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. If you haven’t downloaded your copy yet, the “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley or Edelweiss. or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. The coming season is packed with big names and promising debuts. Spring brings short stories from Kelly Link; Emma Cline’s sophomore novel; the next installment in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem saga; two new works of fiction from Margaret Atwood; and more. Our sampler includes new work from Jamel Brinkley and Patrick deWitt, and an excerpt […]
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February Library Reads
The top pick for February Library Reads is The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz.
Audio: Google Play Books Partners With Bookwire on AI-Narrated Audiobooks
Google Play Books has partnered with digital book company Bookwire on AI-created audiobooks in English, Spanish, German, French and Brazilian Portuguese books. Bookwire’s audiobook service WAY (We Audiobook You) allows Google Play Books customers to “create auto-narrated audiobooks within the framework of the WAY service and, as usual, takes over the complete production and quality assurance of these audiobooks.” They write in a release that the service is not intended to replace human narrators, “but as an addition to Bookwire’s audiobook production offering.” Solveij Krause, team lead business development audio at Bookwire, said, “We are happy that in cooperation with […]
Brown and Lucas Address Black Women In Publishing Panel
Digital Book World convened in New York starting on Monday. In a panel called Black Women in Publishing, Hachette Nashville publicity director Laini Brown and Pantheon svp and publisher Lisa Lucas both said they would recommend publishing as a career to anyone who wanted to break into it. Brown said that it’s an industry where you can learn a lot about a lot of different topics, and Lucas said that people should know that there are many types of jobs in publishing outside of editorial, and that publishing is “a great living.” “As much as we complain about money and […]
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Rebecca Carter has launched her own agency, Rebecca Carter Literary, after 10 years at Janklow & Nesbit UK.