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The 1997 edition of this annual directory contains more than 800 listings in the children's book market; more than 150 of these listings are new with this edition, and nearly all the listings have been updated. The directory provides the standard addresses, contacts and query tips, but it also offers the publishers' electronic mail addresses and World Wide Web sites. Following a foreword from the editor, sections in the book are: How to Use This Book to Sell Your Work; Guide to Submitting Your Work; Tips on Contracts & Negotiations; Know Your Rights; Business Basics; Get Plugged In! Opportunities in the Children's Multimedia Market; Showing Your Portfolio in Person: An Artist's Trip to New York City; First Books; Virginia Hamilton's Work: Blending the Known, the Remembered & the Imagined; Keys to Symbols & Abbreviations; Book Publishers; Magazines; Multimedia; Audiovisual & Audiotape; Greeting Cards, Puzzles and Games; Play Publishers & Producers; Young Writer's & Illustrator's Markets; Clubs & Organizations; Conferences & Workshops; Contests & Awards; Helpful Resources; Glossary; Age-Level Index; Subject Index; Photography Index; and General Index. (NKA)

'T is the season to strive for perfection. Yes, it is December and we are getting ready for Veganuary, updating our personal philosophies and gathering the tools we need to [...]

As the end of another publishing year approaches, and I mark 24 years of writing these previews, I've been reflecting on the perennial pleasure and privilege of an almost daily [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Triumph of Elly [...]

This season's noteworthy titles explore the continued rise of Christian nationalism, as well as more evergreen topics, including the nuances of karma, the history of the Bible, and the benefits [...]

It's difficult enough for me, trying to make space for all the books I admire this month. So spare a thought for valiant book publicists at this already loaded time [...]

ABRAMS It's Hard to Be a Baby by Cheryl B. Klein, illus. by Juana Medina (Oct. 8, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-4197-6733-3), celebrates the challenges, changes, and cheers that come with being [...]

THE REVIEWS TEAM at SLJ is just starting to put together committees for this year's Best Books list, our annual much-anticipated selection of the titles that spoke to us, sang [...]

September's paperbacks arrive with a new-term feeling. Non-fiction dominates in the month's submissions, meaning plenty of new topics to be enthralled by. Subjects range from Bollywood cinema (Sunny Singh's A [...]

Northern writers, illustrators, publishers and books concerned with the North of England present a strong offering for the book trade in the coming year. Once again, geography proves a challenge, [...]

This season's crop includes new books from bestseller list mainstays, inquiries into the limits of AI, and explorations of animal communication. TOP 10 AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can [...]

America's rightward drift, reproductive healthcare in a post-Roe world, and players behind the January 6 Capitol attack feature in this fall's noteworthy titles. TOP 10 Blessings and Disasters: A Story [...]

Fall's offerings reimagine parenting styles, navigate the challenges of the American healthcare system, and advise on forging connections at a time of increasing isolation. TOP 10 Blind Spots: When Medicine [...]

Fall's notable books focus on Black activism, Indigenous resistance, the Iranian hostage crisis, professors who became spies, and race and the Supreme Court. TOP 10 Black in Blues: How a [...]

This season, celebrities venture into the kitchen, baked goods get their due, and the rich and varied flavors of the South shine. TOP 10 Bayou: Feasting Through the Seasons of [...]

This season's notable titles document pop culture innovations, take the measure of towering architects including I.M. Pei, and bring a fresh eye to canonical figures like Albrecht Durer. TOP 10 [...]

Fiction Anna Bright Is Hiding Something Susie Orman Schnall. Sparkpress. $17.95 paper (344p), ISBN 978-1-68463-252-7; $9.49 e-book, ISBN 978-1-68463-253-4 Amazon Multibillion-dollar tech CEO Anna Bright has kept her fraud a [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER The Poison Dart: A Debbie Bradley Mystery Geri L. Dreiling 314p, e-book, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-7350303-2-6 Dreiling plunges readers into the heartland fentanyl epidemic in the gripping second installment of [...]

FICTION When the Tamarind Tree Blooms Elaine Russell | Belles Histoires 398p, e-book, $4.99, ISBN 978-1-7324994-9-2 Russell (author of Across the Mekong River) gracefully captures the fraught atmosphere of 1931 [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 66 selfpublished titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS [??] EDITOR'S PICK Black Justice: The Awakening David Washington | Washington Comix 108p, trade paper, $21.99, ISBN 979-8-218-18350-9 This rousing superhero debut and origin story boasts [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER [??] EDITOR PICK. Fatal Harvest: A Hunter and Tate Mystery Brenda Chapman | Ivy Bay Press 332p, e-book, $6.99, ISBN 978-0-9784284-9-5 Chapman's gripping, emotionally resonant third Hunter and Tate [...]

FICTION Marriage and Hanging Genevieve Morrissey 290p, e-book, $3.99, ISBN 978-1-7351096-9-5 Inspired by a notorious real 19th century case, Morrissey (author of the Antlands science-fiction series) delivers an engrossing murder [...]

MEMOIR EDITION'S PICK Unbroken Optimist Kofi Douhadji | FlyingWings 175p, e-book,$14.99, ISBN 978-1-7376243-2-5 This heartening memoir tells us what diligence and optimism can achieve in the face of seemingly insurmountable [...]

HERE IN THE NORTHEAST, IT FEELS LIKE IT started raining in January and never stopped--which is another way of saying summer can't come soon enough. While we wait for the [...]

MEMOIR EDITION'S PICK And Always One More Time: A Memoir Margaret Mande 11 | Atmosphere Press 146p, e-book, $16.99, ISBN 979-8-89132-149-6 Mandell stuns with a riveting debut memoir chronicling her [...]

There has been some press coverage of the rise in religious involvement among younger generations. Lamorna Ash's Don't Forget We're Here Forever (Bloomsbury) is an ideal introduction to this growing [...]

As with a lot of publishing across the arts and lifestyle sectors, we are seeing a lean towards publishing at a lower price point and, in many cases, this is [...]

FICTION EDITION'S PICK Lack of Moral Fibre Helena P. Schrader | Cross Seas Press 72kp,e-book, $1.99, IASIN B09HJ97DT2 In her Bridge to Tomorrow series, novelist and World War II historian [...]

In this edition of our monthly thematic roundup of BookLife titles, we feature romance and relationship-focused books. Want to see your book featured? Check out the Indie Spotlight calendar at [...]

42 Terrible Humans: The World's Most Corrupt Super-Villains And The Fight To Bring Them Down Patrick Alley An insight into the world's worst warlords, grifters and kleptocrats who can be [...]

MYSTERY/THRILLER [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Delusion T.O. Paine | Dark Swallow Books 426p, e-book, $3.99,ASIN 80CNY7MPC9 Paine (The Abduction) spins a first-rate thriller that serves as an incisive metaphor for [...]

THE SUMMER OF 2023 WAS THE SUMMER OF POWERFUL WOMEN, from mega-concerts by monumental stars like Taylor Swift and Beyonce to the blockbuster film Barbie inspiring conversations about gender and [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS EDITOR'S PICK Naked: The Confessions of [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. POETRY [??] EDITOR'S PICK Skies of Blur Elijah [...]

This season's slate of notable debut fiction draws on Native American and Igbo lore; Chinese numerology; class divisions in London, Rio de Janeiro, and Berkeley, Calif.; familial strife; and reparations. [...]

Nature runs through this month's preview. Jane Burn, the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year, explores nature, folklore, autism, art and imagination in the Apothecary of Flight (Nine Arches), [...]

SLICE OF LIFE Caitlin Rozakis's fantasy debut, Dreadful, 'opens on a bewildered amnesiac waking up 'with no eyebrows and no idea how he'd gotten into such a position,'' according to [...]

The Life Impossible By Matt Haig POPULAR FICTION Viking | September 3 Matt Haig touched a lot of hearts with his fabulist novel The Midnight Library, which provided a muchneeded [...]

Almost a third of longlistees for this year's Booker Prize are Irish novelists. The reason? A strong literary tradition and an investment in literary culture, according to James Shapiro, a [...]

FICTION [??] EDITOR'S PICK The Pallbearers of Thanksgiving Milo Savich | Unwritten History, Inc. 92p, trade paper, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-7374709-3-9 'Dey're actin' like dey can get away wid anything,' a [...]

Several books centre on taking refuge in the natural world, using nature to recharge and regain a sense of spirituality. Firstly, Katherine May's Enchantment records a personal journey in search [...]

Northern books, voices and publishers are still a powerhouse for the trade. Once the geography is established, with Skelmersdale and Whitley Bay taking precedence over submissions more properly seen as [...]

POETRY [??] EDITOR'S PICK May We Learn from the Earth: Nature Poems and Reflections on the Environment Robert J. Tiess 280p, trade paper, $14.99, ISBN 979 8-986-17954-4 Tiess's second collection [...]

Booksellers, publishers, librarians, and agents are encouraged to look at the 66 self-published titles below. Each appears with a list of retailers that are selling the book and a description [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. A lightning bolt ([??]) indicates an Editor's Pick, a book of outstanding quality. MEMOIR EDITOR'S PICK The Work: A Jigsaw Memoir [...]

Eyes down for the autumn publishing season and, as always at this time of year, a bumper selection follows. It includes the customary crop of celebrity memoirs, led by my [...]

BookLife Reviews are paid reviews of independently published books. Each review contains the honest opinion of a professional Publishers Weekly reviewer. A lightning bolt [??] indicates an Editor's Pick, a [...]

To help them reach their full potential in a world full of constant change and uncertainty, all children--regardless of gender or identity-should feel equal, accepted, and safe. Youth of all [...]