2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (326+ words) What made you want to write for kids after devoting much of your career to adult comedy? How else did your relationship with your daughter inspire this book? I made this book for her. My daughter is the sort of…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (212+ words) After more than a decade in business and client development with Nielsen, NPD Group and Circana, David Walter struck out on his own this year with BookInsights.ai, a consultancy aimed at helping publishers turn data into decisions. Walter talked…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (183+ words) There is no high-concept hook to Taipei Story, nothing like the premises that underpinned her previous work. The book follows Lily, a Chinese American enrolled in an intensive language program in Taiwan, hoping to achieve fluency and, with it, a…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (165+ words) The Small Press Expo returns to the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center in Maryland to celebrate alternative comics Sept. 12–13. Highlights of this year’s programming include a spotlight panel with Derf Backderf, who will discuss his new graphic novel The…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (233+ words) Publishers Weekly Perri Klass to Receive National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award The National Book Foundation has named Perri Klass, the longtime national medical director of the children’s literacy nonprofit Reach Out and Read, as the recipient of the…...

5+ day, 32+ min ago   (180+ words) Publishers Weekly Audible says it has "quadrupled" the number of titles it has translated into English from European languages so far this year, with translations from the continent up 300% year-over-year. (The company did not provide a comparative figure from last…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (42+ words) Publishers Weekly Eleven Days: The Fascinating True Account of Agatha Christie’s Mysterious Disappearance Laura Thompson. St. Martin’s, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-1-250-46126-1 More By and About this Authorchevron_right...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (743+ words) Though the end of summer is a sleepy time in the publishing world, August saw two authors rally their communities to celebrate a pair of debuts, and Film at Lincoln Center kicked off a bookish film series with the help…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (236+ words) Books-A-Million had a strong finish to the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, and the momentum has carried into this year, CEO Terry Finley told PW in a recent interview. The company is also on pace to open 15 new outlets, including a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (221+ words) What inspired you to make this your first middle grade nonfiction book? When I was a middle grade reader, I loved adventure stories, animal stories, and stories in which something magical happened to ordinary kids. And even though this is…...