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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
Marieke Nijkamp credits books with shaping her worldview, how she relates to herself, and even saving her life. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
For 33 years, Galaxy Press has been promoting the work of science fiction and fantasy writers and illustrators through the annual L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nominations for Publishers Weekly’s third annual Star Watch program will be accepted until June 15. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
In 2006, Sourcebooks took an auspicious leap into the children’s arena with "Poetry Speaks to Children," edited by Elise Paschen, illus. by Wendy Rasmussen. 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 ]
Smaller and quieter, this year's BookExpo hums with anticipation about a new marketing analytics tool meant to boost success on Amazon.com. The post BookExpo’s Trade Floor: Spacious, Smaller, and Talking About OptiQly appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With three novels coming out this fall, you might never guess that Jason Reynolds didn’t like to read books in elementary school, or even high school. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
At today’s Children’s Book & Author Breakfast, two bookstores—the Bookworm of Edwards in Edwards, Colo., and Children’s Book World in Los Angeles—will receive the 2017 WNBA Pannell Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Before slow cookers became the “must have” for every well-appointed kitchen, Phyllis Good was preaching the gospel of crockpots to millions of worshippers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Questions of fairness, fact-checking, and reviewing diverse books were the subject of Book Reviews: The Diversity of Race, Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation, a panel held Friday morning at BookExpo. 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 ]
In their first book together, "Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life," twin sisters and former first daughters Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush write about their lives, including their White House years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Organizers of the New York Rights Fair held a party last night to introduce the event to the American publishing community. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The furthest thing from Ben Blum’s mind in August 2006 was that his 19-year-old cousin Alex Blum, whom Ben was very close to and admired for his loyalty, his intelligence, and respectful nature, would become an armed bank robber in Tacoma, Wash. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
“There’s a renaissance for spoken-word content and our media diet is expanding, but as the landscape becomes more saturated, audiobooks face greater and greater discoverability challenges,” said Tom Webster, v-p, strategy and marketing, at Edison Research. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Comedian Whitney Cummings hosted novelists Stephen King and his son Owen, Claire Messud, Jesmyn Ward, astronaut Scott Kelly, and former White House photographer Pete Souza at the BookExpo Adult Author's Breakfast. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A combination of bookstore attrition and its own startup efforts will make Amazon Books the fifth largest general bookstore chain in the U.S. based on the number of outlets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]