In the March trilogy, Congressman John Lewis, a renowned figure in the history of the civil rights movement and American social justice, and congressional staffer Andrew Aydin, Lewis’s digital director and policy adviser, wrote a graphic memoir about the struggle for racial justice. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Award-winning actress and director Sally Field has kept personal journals for decades and always intended to keep her writing private. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Political books have been a particularly hot category in 2018, starting with the publication of Michael Wolff’s 'Fire and Fury' at the beginning of January and continuing with James Comey’s 'A Higher Loyalty.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emcee Jacqueline Woodson set the tone right away for Friday morning’s children’s book and authors breakfast at BookExpo, explaining, “Through our narratives, we’re trying to change this crazy world.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Goodreads is credited by Penguin Press for helping to rapidly build the popularity of bestseller 'Little Fires Everywhere' and generating 30,089 'Want to Read' signals by release date. The post At BookExpo, Penguin and Goodreads Chart the Blaze of Celeste Ng’s ‘Little Fires Everywhere’ appeared... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“My goal is no longer a perfect body or hair. My goal is to live to be an old woman,” says Iranian-American novelist Porochista Khakpour. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
With a catalogue that includes'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and 'Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,' Quirk Books fits solidly in the nerd/pop culture niche. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s no wonder that Kate Morton, who travels with aplomb to vastly different time zones between her current London residence and her homeland of Australia, is fascinated by different aspects of time. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“Feeling cool, calm, and collected about this,” tweets Abbi Jacobson, about her upcoming book. However, the title, 'I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff' (Grand Central, Oct.) hints at the opposite. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Despite fears of a physical store "retail apocalypse," NPD BookScan's Kristen McLean outlined a future for indie booksellers driven by experimentation and selling books in more places. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
This summer Hoopla, the digital arm of Midwest Tape, which provides digital media lending services for more than 1,600 U.S. and Canadian public libraries, is marking its fifth year since startup. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its first major redesign since the series was launched in 1993, DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guides are being revamped for the digital age. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The market is 'robust and solid,' the BookExpo audience hears from three of the biggest books CEOs in the world. It's just the consumers who keep changing. The post BookExpo’s Roundtable With CEOs Cites Stability, Growth, Promise for Books Ahead appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
No book industry gathering would be complete without food—or books about food—for both adults and kids who want to learn how to cook or get new techniques for doing it faster, with healthy ingredients and bigger flavors. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The audiobook boom is most prominent in North America, and it is spreading across the world, as discussed in a panel on Wednesday at the New York Rights Fair entitled “The Audiobook Heard ‘Round the World.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just weeks before the Harvey Weinstein scandal hit and the #MeToo movement went viral, actress, writer, and film director Amber Tamblyn wrote an ardent 'New York Times' editorial about how she was done with not being believed about her own harassment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Texas native Ngozi Ukazu first wrote about hockey in a screenplay-writing seminar during her senior year at Yale. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Deborah Harkness, history professor at the University of Southern California, was riveted by the alternate world of the Twilight series, a free-spirited departure from the 16th-century Elizabethan era that was her specialty. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
We spoke with a number of booksellers about their impressions of the show, and the titles they were most looking forward to grabbing at publishers’ booths. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
With 'The Boneless Mercies' (FSG, Oct.), a reimagining of the Beowulf legend in which four mercenary girls set out to defeat a marauding monster, Tucholke is making her first foray into fantasy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]