Behind the Audiobook Scenes with Celebrity Readers
How Johnny Depp ended up narrating the audiobook of Keith Richards' memoir, and other stories of A-listers landing in the recording studio. more...
Comics
05/15/2012 @ 12:30PM
The spirit of indie comics has not only influenced some of the Cartoon Network's biggest recent hits—it's led to a wave of indie cartoonists moving into the animation field on shows including Adventure Time and Regular Show.
Comics
05/15/2012 @ 10:00AM
5/16 Jeffrey Brown Darth Vader & Son Signing in San Francisco, CA; 5/18-5/20 University of Chicago's "Comics: Philosophy & Practice" with Bechdel, Clowes et al in Chicago; 5/22, 5/23 Francoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman Discuss "Blown Covers" Live in New York
Deals
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright & Co., has acquired two new works by novelist Allan Gurganus, author of the acclaimed and bestselling 1989 novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
Page to Screen
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
PW reported yesterday that self-published author Hugh Howey sold film rights to his sci-fi series Wool to 20th Century Fox. Immediately following the news, the omnibus (all the series' books in one), a perennial top 100 seller for Kindle, jumped from #85 to #23.
Awards & Prizes
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
At a ceremony Monday night, Karen Russell won the New York Public Library's 2012 Young Lions Fiction Award for Swamplandia! (Knopf).
Comics
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Dark Horse, plans to release both a regular hardcover edition and a deluxe limited hardcover edition of Carla Speed McNeil’s much acclaimed novella, Finder: Talisman.
Awards & Prizes
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the finalists for the 24th Annual Benjamin Franklin Awards, honoring excellence in publishing. The three finalists in each of the 54 categories were chosen from close to 1,300 entries, and one winner per category will be announced at the Benjamin Franklin Awards ceremony on Monday evening, June 4th at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York city on the eve of BookExpo America 2012.
Deals
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Razorbill Nabs MacHale Trilogy, Lisa Scottoline signs a new deal, Tor Teen lands a new fantasy series, and more.
Page to Screen
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Self-publishing success Hugh Howey has sold film rights to his science fiction series Wool to 20th Century Fox.
Deals
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Hachette Book Group, which last August acquired rights to The Shack author W. Paul Young’s new novel, announced that its FaithWords imprint will release Cross Roads November 13 in hardcover. Audio, e-book, and foreign editions are also planned.
The Roundup for Book News
Publishing news from across the Web
The Guardian: Modern authors are stylistically influenced by their contemporaries rather than writers from the 18th and 19th centuries, according to word-frequency study of classic literature.
The Guardian selects "War and Peace" and "Wolf Hall" among others.
The Guardian: Few books now appear without enthusiastic recommendations from other authors, but does anyone really believe them?
The author of 'Are You My Mother?' talks with Slate about family history exploration.
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Chomp | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
