Zando, launched by former Crown publisher Molly Stern six months ago, announced its first acquisition, a reference guide written by a prominent psychiatrist affiliated with the National Association on Mental Illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
In a deal rumored to be in the seven figure-range, Knopf editor Jenny Jackson sold her debut novel to Pam Dorman, who has an eponymous imprint at Penguin Random House. 'Pineapple Street' follows three sisters who are members of a wealthy family, and is slated to be released in early 2023. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
First Book, the nonprofit social enterprise devoted to education equity, has created a suite of resources that provides teachers and families with trusted, accessible information about the Covid-19 vaccine. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-03-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
"Of Women and Salt," tracking generations of Latinas, comes out of Gabriela Garcia's family story, life experience and advocacy for migrants. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-23 19:20:30 UTC ]
Writer Jeannine Mjoseth was looking for adventure when she turned to professional wrestling. She got plenty of that. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Unless you’re a disgraced politician, trying to get a book published can be difficult, nerve-wracking, soul-denting work. If you’re anything like me, though, it really helps to hear that rejection is the rule in the publishing industry, rather than the exception. When my novel was out on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-10 17:04:17 UTC ]
Picador has landed a story collection and debut novel from Niamh Mulvey, writer of publishing newsletter “In the Read” and a former Quercus commissioning editor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-04 22:15:18 UTC ]
While we don’t know what the state of the our pandemic society will be come September, we can at least be sure that we’ll all be getting a little Joy Williams, as a treat. Specifically, a new novel—her fifth, and her first since 2000’s The Quick and the Dead, which was a runner-up for the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-03 21:01:23 UTC ]
Megan Nolan's "Acts of Desperation," about a woman in thrall to an older man, stands out from similar tales with an uncannily self-aware narrator. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-03-03 15:00:19 UTC ]
In “The Committed,” a follow-up to “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism’s ghosts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-26 10:00:03 UTC ]
Black & White will publish the first book from "Great British Bake Off" 2020 winner Peter Sawkins. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-25 00:03:12 UTC ]
Resourceful publicists are having to be inventive to launch debuts as the lockdown rumbles on and shops remain closed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 09:01:07 UTC ]
Wildfire has pre-empted former Home Secretary and memoirist Alan Johnson’s debut novel, The Late Train to Gipsy Hill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 23:51:47 UTC ]
HarperNorth has snared its first fiction acquisition, a gritty gangland thriller by Karen Woods. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 01:06:27 UTC ]
“Fake Accounts,” Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, considers how social media has reconfigured our behavior, relationships and how we think of ourselves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-01 10:00:02 UTC ]
Simon and Schuster UK is to publish debut author Soon Wiley's "wonderfully layered" novel When We Fell Apart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 17:40:14 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing the debut novel of comedian, actress and writer Isy Suttie, Jane is Trying, in July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 11:15:14 UTC ]
Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house of horror’Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a lawyer was using up all the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-25 06:00:07 UTC ]
Virago is publishing the first novel in two decades from Gayl Jones, Palmares, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil on Portuguese plantations and in the last fugitive slave settlement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 23:38:33 UTC ]
Sarah Ferguson says historical tale Her Heart for a Compass is inspired by experiences in her own lifeThe Duchess of York has landed a book deal with the romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon, revealing that she “drew on many parallels from my life” for the historical tale.Sarah... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-13 10:13:08 UTC ]