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Kandace Coston Editor, Lee & Low Books Coston graduated from Barnard College in 2012 with a degree in music and sought career advice from the alumni center. The recommendation was [...]

Diversity remains a hot topic in publishing, and efforts to increase the representation of nonwhite people in the industry are on the rise. In addition to calls for more diverse [...]

In a time when publishers are under financial stress, it seems foolhardy to launch a new imprint devoted solely to literary fiction. But we did it and it's working. Dundurn [...]

It's been seven years since Gillian Flynn introduced readers to Nick and Amy Dunne and the dark deceptions beneath the facade of their seemingly perfect marriage. Gone Girl has since [...]

Speculative fiction has always dealt in humanity's hopes and fears. It holds up a mirror to the present, visualizes a theoretical future world--or imagines an alternate one--and tells the story [...]

TURKISH DELIGHTS As a creative writing teacher, I read so many short stories,' says Ayse Papatya Bucak, a professor at Florida Atlantic University. 'Nothing seems original to me unless it's [...]

Nearly 30 million people in the U.S., according to Nielsen's count, watched Meghan Markle and Prince Harry exchange vows last May, and a year later, it seemed that at least [...]

It's practically in an artist's job description: see the world differently. As forthcoming art and photography titles show, these altered perspectives can convey a variety of meanings and take many [...]

'I think we're in a golden age of books for middle grade readers,' says Charles Kochman, editorial director at Abrams and editor of Jeff Kinney's popular Diary of a Wimpy [...]

A true crime story is never just about the crime. It's about the context, the aftermath, and what the crime says about society at large. Michelle Howry, executive editor at [...]

The oft-quoted numbers remain as compelling as ever: 370 million people under the age of 18, an additional 17.5 million babies born annually, and at least 600 active publishers in [...]

Regina McDonnell Hayes arrived in New York City in 1966 after a two-year stint as an au pair in Paris, unsure of what to do next. She signed with a [...]

In its third year, the BookLife Prize--an annual writing contest sponsored by Publishers Weekly and BookLife--received more than 900 submissions . Of those, 30 books advanced to the semifinals. From [...]

The 2019 Sharjah International Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates, which began October 29 and runs through November 9, hosted more than 2,000 exhibitors from 81 countries. Among approximately [...]

Naval Institute Press has a dedicated readership for its detailed volumes of precisely told military history and biographies, and those readers share more than taste in books. They are also [...]

Aurora Rising Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (Knopf Books for Young Readers) My favorite reads from last year were the bestselling Illuminae series, which Kaufman and Kristoff cowrote. When I [...]

Millennials indulging expensive breakfast habits while straining under ruinous debt: it's become such a favored trope among financial writers that the Wall Street Journal, in late 2017, felt compelled to [...]

The article offers information on the panel of editors for the U.S. Book show organized by the publishers weekly scheduled on May 26, 2021. It mentions topic of the discussion such as what makes their books special including Mitzi Angel and Retha Powers.

The article focuses on soliciting commentary from editors at big New York trade houses, independent presses, university presses, and self-help, religion, and lifestyle publishers. Topics include examines that the responses suggest how social justice publishing is changing and give context for works acquired years ago that are arriving in the market at a pivotal moment.

The article announces the names of employees who will depart from Penguin Random House amid its long-rumored layoffs including editor Ann Close, Nadine Britt, Penguin Young Readers' senior vice president and executive director of production, and retirement of Gerard Mancini, v-p and executive director of managing and production editorial.

Senior managing editor and acquisitions editor Penguin Random House Canada Ross started his career in books in retail, specifically as a bookseller in Toronto. While working at the store, he [...]

Editor Catapult Though Majumdar has been making a name for herself as an editor of literary fiction over the past few years, she is, more recently, basking in a different [...]

I can still remember staying up way too late turning the pages of Sue Miller's debut novel, The Good Mother (Harper & Row), promising myself, 'Only one more chapter ...' [...]

There's a reason the American Southwest is such fertile ground for fiction, says Gabino Iglesias, a novelist (2018's Coyote Songs) and the editor of the forthcoming anthology Both Sides: Stories [...]

The 20th century has seen some terrifying autocrats (not that the 21st is any slouch). With How to Feed a Dictator, coming from Penguin Books in April, Polish author and [...]

What began as a reading series based in Manhattan has evolved into an indie press that aims to publish enjoyable and risk-taking literary fiction and nonfiction. BookLife recently spoke with [...]

New travel narratives follow the authors around the globe and on interior journeys Guidebooks have mastered the where and when of what's happening around the world, says Tomaso Biancardi, an [...]

The article features editors and adult and children's authors at the American Booksellers Association's Winter Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico whose books are out or due by summer 2019. These include Whitney Scharer of "The Age of Light," Elizabeth McCracken of "Bowlaway," and Bryan Washington of "Lot: Stories."

The article offers tips on how to make books grammatically flawless. Topics include software firm Grammarly integrates books into Google Docs and Microsoft Word, find an editor for copyediting and line editing, use beta readers as it helps to find errors, and convert the file to an e-book format and send it to e-reader.

Martha Waters didn't set out to write a historically accurate Regency heroine. With no slight intended to the female wits of the early 19th century, she was aiming for something [...]

* Wingate Re-ups at Ballantine Ballantine has acquired Lisa Wingate's new novel The Book of Lost Friends. The North American rights deal was handled by Elisabeth Weed at the Book [...]

On September 8, Random House publisher Susan Kamil died at age 69, suddenly and of lung cancer, and the news shook the publishing world. Over the course of more than [...]

I like to get out of my comfort zone, and Chris Ware's graphic novel, Rusty Brown, coming from Pantheon September 24, took me right to the edge. My colleague Calvin [...]

I met Petina Gappah at a Scribner lunch in New York City during the March prepub tour for her historical novel Out of Darkness, Shining Light, due out in September. [...]

We were inseparable, John and I, once the parties started. And while the torrential rain and the insane New York traffic did their best to slow us down, we got [...]

Jerusalem is addictive. Reasonably small and obsessively intimate, it's a place to encounter other lives and points of view. Trading intellectual property of all kinds, writers, publishers, literary editors, agents, [...]

Though perennially popular events such as the adult and children's author breakfasts, editors' buzz panels, and publicists speed dating are back, there is a host of new panels and programming [...]

'Mistakes are reminders that books are made by humans and not gods,' a publisher once told me when I was a relatively new editor, bemoaning a typo that had managed [...]

Ican't help but notice that everyone connected with Mary Beth Keane's new novel--the author herself, her agent, her editor, and her publisher--has Irish ancestry. It's purely coincidence, I'm told, because [...]

The article offers suggestions on how to choose an editor. It mentions that an editor should be responsive and accessible, whether by phone, email, Zoom, or in person. It also mentions that editors should provide a free sample edit of a few pages of the book so one can get a feel for how they work, what they do with book's writing.

The article discusses the authors and editors who are operating as a team, but sometimes playing on opposite sides when one side does not really understand the other's perspective. Also discussed are the ten tips for authors and editors which include to avoid rewriting after first-pass pages; to be realistic with the dates and to be smart in using the social media.

The article presents the views of various editors, agents, booksellers and librarians on the middle grade books category. Middle school librarian and library services director Jennifer Hubert Swan thinks middle grade as books that feature a 10-, 12-, or 13-year-old protagonist. Chronicle Books editor Taylor Norman says middle grade just refers to an age range. Publisher Namrata Tripathi considers middle grade as an industry term that the general public does not know or really need to learn.

Editorial director Quirk Books Kupihea joined Quirk Books two years ago with a directive to build on the press's reputation for high-concept commercial hits like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. [...]

Brian Koppelman, cocreator of Showtime's Billions, sold a nonfiction book titled The Moment to Mary Ann Naples at Hachette. The book is an extension of Koppelman's podcast of the same [...]

For Tom Doherty Associates' new horror imprint, Nightfire, Kelly O'Connor Lonesome won North American rights, at auction, to Anne Heltzel's Just Like a Mother in a two-book deal. Heltzel, a [...]

What Is an Editor?--a volume of curated correspondence to and from Random House's first great editor, Saxe Commins--as held an honored place on my shelf for 18 years. It came [...]

Moving with the times, says Bai Bing, editor-in-chief of Jieli Publishing House, is critical in the Chinese children's book industry. 'In sales, marketing, and distribution activities, for instance, one must [...]

The release of The Snow Comes Around at the Shanghai International Children's Book Fair in November was one of the highlights for Beijing Dandelion Children's Book House, which celebrated its [...]

PW senior editor Calvin Reid interviews comics superstar Gene Luen Yang on his latest book, Dragon Hoops. [...]

Teresa Mlawer, one of the most recognized and respected people in the Hispanic publishing industry in the U.S., died March 21 due to cancer. She was 75. Mlawer was an [...]