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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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 .
'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...
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...
• 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...
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.
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 …...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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 .
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 .
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...
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....
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 .
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.
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.
Minor Black Figures is a thoughtful literary romance tackling the challenges of creating art and finding love in highly politicized 21st-century America.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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.”...
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...