Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Whatever
Stick out your tongue and say “ahh!” for author Caitlin Starling’s newest gothic novel, The Graceview Patient. Follow along in her Big Idea as she recounts all of her real-life experiences in the wild world of hospitals...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from The Rap Sheet
A brief break from my usual crime-fiction coverage … While Republicans struggle to portray this coming Saturday’s nationwide “ No Kings Day ” protests as “hate-America rallies,” that couldn’t be further from the truth. Instead, these...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
When I was a kid, at bedtime my dad would tell my brother and me to go “up the wooden hill to see the blanket show.” Ever since then I have had a strong affection for blankets: I have a large blanket collection, and this is now my...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
1. What inspired you to write this book? The property Infinite Paradise is the focus of has been in my family for nearly seventy years. As so much of our natural world has been or is being destroyed, I wanted in some...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Whatever
It’s a simple one: if you queried about a Big Idea slot for November and haven’t heard back yet, don’t panic, those will be addressed next week. I’m traveling again and punting a number of things until I’m...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
In song, verse, and commentary, Frankfurter Buchmesse’s Guest of Honor Philippines opens the 2025 trade show. By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson ‘The Power of Words To Build What Is Just’...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
On the eve of the 77th trade show's opening, Frankfurter Buchmesse stages its annual opening press conference. The post Frankfurt’s News Conference: ‘What Literature Can Do’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
'Accompanying authors to success is perhaps the most rewarding activity in our profession,' says GeMS Stephano Mauri. The post Stefano Mauri on Italy’s GeMS at 20: ‘Pause Is Not in Our Vocabulary’ appeared first on Publishing...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The special fiction recognized as Taiwanese fantasy comes to Frankfurt, with a leading literary rights agent as one of its best representatives: It's 'very down-to-Earth,' Gray Tan says, 'but with strong supernatural elements that can...Wednesday, October 15, 2025 from The Rap Sheet
• Back in July, San Francisco Bay-area author Mark Coggins published a short story in Eclectica magazine titled “ Mockingbird ,” which revitalized Dashiell Hammett’s best-recognized shamus, Sam Spade , and sent him chasing once more...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Book News & Features
This week's new titles include memoir, comics journalism and speculative fiction, horror and humor. Susan Orlean tells her own story in Joyride, and Pulitzer-winner Adam Johnson has a new novel.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
On November 15, 2022, Emiliano Almada woke up as usual at 4:30 AM in his home in Fighiera, a modest town twenty-five miles south of Rosario on the banks of the Paraná River in Argentina. By 6 AM he and his brother were in his canoe, out...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Children's Book Council
Let's celebrate desserts with these tasty books!Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Whatever
Eras in the past had a focus on manners — a word that in itself was a code for something more controlling. For her novel The Doxies Penalty, author Madeleine E. Robins revisits a past era to look what maneuvers behind the manners,...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Whatever
With the admission that I somehow missed it last year, probably because I have a head full of mostly cheese these days. That said, Whatever’s been on WordPress now for 17 years, both the blogging software and the hosting of the...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
Librarian Constanza Mekis speaks at the Frankfurt Kids Conference on Wednesday, specializing in an integrated reading experience. By Eric Dupuy | @duperico ‘Promoting the Bond With Reading Through Joy’ he Chilean...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
How do you sell more copies of your book? I am sure you have a lot of answers, including: * Going viral online and mastering social media * Being published by Penguin Random House * Getting a...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from The IndieView
Because of my son’s experiences, I’ve gotten to see the rot that lives beneath politeness, and I wanted to write a story where someone pulls up the floorboards and names it. Todd Brown – 14 October 2025 The Back Flap …...
In an epilogue to his new book Assassins and Templars, Steve Tibble says (or, perhaps, protests) that his […]Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The decline of traditional newspaper reviews of new music offers an opportunity to expand our ideas of what music criticism could be.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
A critic’s power lies in the testing of deeply held beliefs about the nature of art and art’s place in the world against the experience of specific artworks.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
The National Book Award finalist’s spellbinding YA novel-in-verse about the afterlife is already earning accolades.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Chef and Blood, Bones & Butter memoirist Gabrielle Hamilton turns her focus to her family of origin in her vivid, memorable Next of Kin .Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Julian Brave NoiseCat’s unique memoir-history hybrid, We Survived the Night , pays tribute to his Salish ancestors’ rich, complex and profound stories of resilience.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Readers will fall silent as they pore over The Five Wolves , a wonderland of visual stimulation and philosophical rumination.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
It would be easy to get lost in the beautiful artwork of Nunu and the Sea and forget the rest of the story, but it’s worth it to follow along: We can all use these empathetic teachings about finding a way through big feelings, moving...Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
A fantasy take on Anne of Green Gables, Kindred Dragons moves forward from its deep emotional center with powerful velocity and excitement.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Depicting the parallel stories of two young protagonists fighting to save their families’ livelihoods, The Nine Moons of Han Yu and Luli is a vibrant masterpiece, not to be missed.Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Never has a primer about farm animal sounds gone off the rails in such a delightfully engaging way as it does in Zip Zap Wickety Wack .Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The IPA's new Defenders Award will honor those who defend freedoms of expression, publishing, and reading. The post Frankfurt: IPA’s Gvantsa Jobava on the Defenders Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Monday, October 13, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
Just days before Frankfurter Buchmesse opens, the German Book Prize goes to 'The Dutch Women' author Dorothee Elmiger. The post Frankfurt: Elmiger Wins the €25,000 German Book Prize appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Monday, October 13, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
A consultant's white paper suggests that AI narration and translation tools could publishers reach two million audiobooks by 2030. The post Frankfurt White Paper: AI Tools’ Potential Benefits, Challenges appeared first on...Monday, October 13, 2025 from Whatever
The motto for the Olympics translates to “Faster, Higher, Stronger” — but in Gold Dust, author Catherine Asaro takes athletic competition to heights even the greatest of Olympians might not have ever dreamed of....Monday, October 13, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
Themed 'Between You and a Book,' the 2025 Sharjah International Book Fair welcomes Greece as guest of honor. The post Pre-Frankfurt: Sharjah Announces 2,350 from 118 Countries appeared first on Publishing Perspectives .Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
The author says she hopes that each book she writes will be “more powerful and more true to itself.” With A Guardian and a Thief , she’s cranked up the power of her already forceful debut, A Burning , to a thunderous boom.Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Inspired by the oral traditions of the Polynesian Tongan empire, Adam Johnson’s The Wayfinder is an epic rich in narrative and emotional depth.Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
In her devastatingly powerful second novel, A Guardian and a Thief , Megha Majumdar tells a gripping story of two desperate people trying to save their families from climate crisis.Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Minor Black Figures is a thoughtful literary romance tackling the challenges of creating art and finding love in highly politicized 21st-century America.Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
Intemperance isn’t just an intellectually stimulating story; it’s a saucy, sexy and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny tale of a middle-aged woman’s desire and the steps she’ll take to sate it.Monday, October 13, 2025 from BookPage.com - The Book Case Blog
In the charming Shibu’s Tail, Kamwei Fong and Tess Thomas have conjured up an adorable, emotionally intelligent cat who will entertain and embolden readers (and cats!) of all ages to happily be themselves.Monday, October 13, 2025 from Publishing Perspectives
The 2026 Taipei International Book Exhibition has opened its registration to exhibitors for its Feburary edition, featuring Guest of Honor Thailand. (Sponsored) The post Taipei International Book Exhibition Welcomes Guest of Honor...Sunday, October 12, 2025 from Whatever
Hello from Boise, Idaho! It’s not a particularly exciting view but it also isn’t as non-exciting as the parking lot view from yesterday’s hotel. I find myself in Idaho for a wedding, which is taking place tomorrow, so I...Sunday, October 12, 2025 from BookMarketingBuzzBlog
Books are products and authors are companies. Every product and company has a brand. What is yours? A brand is the thing we think of when we hear a company or product name. If I say Nike, you think of “Just do it.”...Sunday, October 12, 2025 from Whatever
Look, the rest of the hotel room I was in was perfectly nice, but this one chair had absolutely the most unseemly aura. I did not sit in it. I did not place anything in it. Indeed, I tried not to look at it. Madness would undoubtedly...
Expat memoirs, even (or perhaps especially) of the East Asian variety, are a venerable genre. One suspects that […]Sunday, October 12, 2025 from The New York Review of Books
The second Trump administration has undone the division between political and economic migrants. Did it make sense to separate them to begin with?