‘I do feel that the world in which I grew up and have lived all my life is ending. And that's true in all the countries that I've cared about in my life and written about: India, England and here.
Why is literary Twitter piling on Jeanine Cummins' American Dirt, once one of the most highly anticipated books of the year? After an intense bidding war among nine houses that ended in a reported seven-figure deal, the novel landed on both the New York Times' and LitHub's 2020-in-reading lists. Read more
Nora Jemisin is still getting used to Bed-Stuy. It's a dreary winter Tuesday, and she's settled into a seat at one of her favored local haunts, the Brown Butter Café, where she's welcomed more as a local than as the resident celebrity author. Read more
"Anyone can be a critic." It's a common lament these days now that the book review landscape is changing. English professors and book reviewers in newspapers aren't the only tastemakers in literary criticism anymore: Goodreads community members, anonymous or top reviewers on Amazon, and dedicated bloggers can, and do, produce discourse about books. But are they really critics? Read more
Described as its most comprehensive look at the UK publishing market's workforce, the third consecutive annual study from the Publishers Association may have a surprise for some who are concerned that women in the business don't have enough representation in leadership positions. Read more
Netflix's adaptation of Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher series is a sensation, and has prompted Sapkowski's American publisher, Orbit Books, to print 500,000 new copies of the books in the series. In a recent interview, PW asked the author to discuss the new show, what projects he has on his plate, and more.
For the first time since 2011, when Borders shut down, or 2007, when Amazon launched the Kindle, or maybe 1455, when Johannes Gutenberg went bankrupt immediately upon printing his game-changing best seller The Bible, the news about book publishing has seemed less than dire. Read more
As a freelance editor, I work with all kinds of different writers-from those racing to make the tight publishing timelines set by their publishers to those who are just starting off on their journey.
Sometimes I'm the very first person a writer has ever shown their manuscript to.
Sometimes I'm the first person they've ever shown their writing to at all. Read more