Happy New Year! January is traditionally a time to launch début authors, but this year it seems publishers are spreading their big débuts over the first four months of the year, and so it was the...
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There are slim pickings in paperbacks this month, as publishers scale down to focus on Christmas hardbacks. But there is gold here, despite the sparsity: I’m ever so excited about my book of the...
The gift season for retailers will, I hope, be picking up pace in the coming weeks as a deluge of gift books and big-hitters arrive. For me, however, looking ahead to December, this is the quietest...
There is no doubt about the two trends kicking off 2019 even before it has officially begun. New Year, New You is all about kicking the booze and eating vegan. While the success of Bosh and other...
December, the last remaining “quiet month” of publishing—although hopefully not for bookselling. May your tills ring with all the last-minute present-buying. Some publishers are taking advantage of...
This November, we’re light on literary offerings and heavy on crime on the fiction front, while gifty paperbacks are emerging in force—lovely till-point, stocking- fillery offerings such as Boxtree’s...
