Thanks to a fateful dinner, NBC’s "Today" show cohost Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, a clinical psychologist who leads parent education classes, will make their picture book debut in September with"Princesses Wear Pants" (Abrams), illus. by Eva Byrne. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the early 1960s, a family of Cuban refugees escaped to suburban New York, where they found a home in the middle-class Long Island neighborhood where author Nelson DeMille grew up. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daniel Handler, the novelist who wrote 13 A Series of Unfortunate Events books under the pen name of Lemony Snicket, found inspiration for his new novel by eavesdropping on teenagers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Celeste Ng’s second novel starts with an actual blaze, but it is an emotional inferno that ultimately consumes the characters in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Penguin, Sept.). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling adult author Jennifer Weiner made her children’s book debut last year with "The Littlest Bigfoot," the first book in a middle grade trilogy of the same name. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The South Dakota Historical Society Press is hoping that lightning will strike twice at BookExpo: this year, the small press is promoting "Pioneer Girl Perpectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder," edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, 150 years after Wilder’s birth on February 7, 1867. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Children’s Book & Author Breakfast speakers emphasized that books don’t just provide escape: reading can save lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lawrence O’Donnell, host of "The Last Word" on MSNBC, has some advice for booksellers who have been in stress over the 2016 election results: chill out. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
That freestanding wall of sticky notes in the North Concourse of the Javits lobby is your opportunity to post a message and meet Matthew “Levee” Chavez, the artist responsible for that headline-making wall of anonymous 3-inch×3-inch sticky notes in the New York City subway system the day after... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Among the many partnerships being announced this week during BookExpo in New York City, many include international elements. The post BookExpo Distribution Notes: Canongate, PGW, Spink, Casemate, OCLC appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In front of a packed main stage crowd, Hillary Rodham Clinton chatted for an hour with Cheryl Strayed about politics, what books mean to her, and her upcoming works. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
A slimmed-down show still provided something for every part of the industry, from a mad rush for adult galleys to a visit from Hillary Clinton. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
PubMatch has reached an agreement with the Beijing International Book Fair to promote Chinese content worldwide. PubMatch is the global rights trading platform owned by Combined Book Exhibit and PWxyz, the parent company of Publishers Weekly. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Who would think that a publishing company founded during San Francisco’s “Summer of Love” would be thriving 50 years later, and still based on the West Coast, adhering to its motto: “see things differently”? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first morning of Book Expo in New York (Wednesday, 31st May) presented consumer-centric data points from Nielsen, NPD, OverDrive, BookBub, and the Audio Publishers Association. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In an event billed as “A Fortunate Stage Talk,” actor Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother" fame, who currently stars as Count Olaf in the TV adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," will reunite with Chris Harris (no relation), who was the executive producer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Emmy Award–winning actor and writer, acclaimed director, bestselling author, university professor, and today host of the APA’s 17th annual Author Tea, Alan Alda took a few minutes to talk to PW about his latest book, "If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?" Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chair of the 17th annual APA’s Author Tea, hosted by BookExpo, is actor and author Alan Alda (see sidebar below), who is joined by authors James Patterson, Marissa Meyer, and Daniel José Older. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ed Asner, the Emmy Award–winning actor and activist, aka Lou Grant, reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Attending BookExpo with her new book, "Something Like Happy" (Graydon House, Sept.), is a dream come true for Eva Woods. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]