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BookExpo 2019: What’s All the Hoopla About?
Libraries have long extended their reach beyond the limits of their physical space.
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BookExpo 2019: Even Sweeter Dreams
Marc Gian, the author of 'The Inner World of Night Dreams: Use Your Dreams to Expand Your Awareness in Waking Life to Become the Best Version of Yourself' (CICO Books, Sept.) has spent more than 20 years working in the field of health and assisting others in well-being.
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BookExpo 2019: Star Watch Celebrates Five Years
This year marks the fifth anniversary of PW Star Watch, a partnership between 'Publishers Weekly' and Frankfurter Buchmesse.
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BookExpo 2019: Polis Debuts Diverse Imprint, Agora Books
Last December, Polis Books founder and publisher Jason Pinter announced that the press would add a new imprint devoted to crime writers with diverse voices, Agora Books.
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BookExpo 2019: Holly M. McGhee Adds Dimension to Listening
Listening with all one’s senses—and one’s heart—may be the key to appreciating what it means to connect and engage with the world around us.
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BookExpo 2019: Indie Bookstores Grow in Number, Profits
American Booksellers Association CEO Oren Teicher addressed members at the organization's town hall and annual meeting at BookExpo, noting the ABA added 99 members last year and members increased profitability.
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BookExpo 2019: Bookstores Central to Publishing, Industry Powerhouses Say
Publishing industry leaders made a strong declaration about the centrality of bricks-and-mortar retail to the publishing industry during a Thursday session at BookExpo 2019.
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NYRF 2019: Film Scouts Talk Trends
Leading film scouts and agents spoke on New York Rights Fair panel, explaining how they make a piece of content come alive for a producer or studio executive.
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Live From BookExpo 2019, 'But That's Another Story'
Podcaster/moderator Will Schwalbe recorded his panel with authors Stephen Chbosky, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and Aarti Shahani and turned the live on-site BookExpo event into the next episode of his podcast.
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BookExpo 2019: Literary Fiction Gets the Buzz
Indie booksellers raved about both fall/winter fiction and nonfiction offerings at BookExpo, but literary fiction with plots inspired by today's news headlines is what they were most excited about.
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BookExpo 2019: Adult Breakfast Authors Say Crime Pays in Literary World
Thursday morning's Adult Book & Author Breakfast featured Rachel Maddow, Malcolm Gladwell, Karin Slaughter, Marjorie Liu, and Ta-Nehisi Coates introducing their newest books, with presentations emphasizing the true crimes that inspired each to write.
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NYRF 2019: Reese Is the Word
The New York Rights Fair opened with a conversation about the evolution of actor Reese Witherspoon's production company, Hello Sunshine, and her wildly popular Instagram book club, an engine for bestsellers.
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BookExpo 2019: Slow Start to a Buzzy Show
Hundreds lined up to crash the doors as BookExpo opened on Wednesday, as booksellers, publishers and authors convened for another three-day stint of networking and deal-making.
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BookExpo 2019: What’s the Buzz on the YA Front?
For this preview of today’s YA Editors’ Buzz Panel, moderated by Sara Grochowski of McLean and Eakin Booksellers in Petoskey, Mich., we asked each participant what it was about the book that first caught her attention and clued her in that it was special.
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BookExpo 2019: Raina Telgemeier's 'Guts' and Graphics
Raina Telgemeier spills her guts—quite literally—in her latest graphic novel, appropriately entitled 'Guts' (Scholastic Graphix, Sept.), the third in a series inspired by Telgemeier’s memorable childhood experiences.
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BookExpo 2019: Julie Murphy Makes Her Middle Grade Debut
Murphy says that she was inspired to write for a younger age group because of the reception she received for 'Dumplin' ', which is about what it’s like to exist in a fatter body.
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BookExpo 2019: Mac Barnett’s Creative Hat Trick
Mac Barnett reflects on a trio of new projects, which, he says, “represent three different approaches to writing—and three different strains of my personality.”
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BookExpo 2019: Sarah J. Maas's Whole New World
“It was all about the story. The story I couldn’t stop thinking about, the one I was the most excited to write,” says Sarah J. Maas, best known for her two YA series Throne of Glass and Court of Thorns and Roses, of her decision to create her first epic fantasy series for adults.
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BookExpo 2019: A Season of Firsts for Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell says that she is happiest and most productive when writing in different genres for varied audiences.
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BookExpo 2019: Joshilyn Jackson Asks if Redemption Is Possible
As a self-described “devout but very progressive Christian woman,” Joshilyn Jackson is interested in the act of redemption. “How far can you go into the black before you see the lights to call you home?” She pursues that theme in her latest novel, 'Never Have I Ever' (Morrow, July).