The season’s most promising fiction debuts are distinguished by their authors’ singular creations, including an eerily cute cat, a phantasmagoric city, and an immaculately dressed grim reaper. WHEN PEOPLE THINK about French Polynesia,...
Our editors highlight the season’s most exciting trends and buzziest titles for adult, middle grade, YA, and manga readers.
Erewhon takes Brittney Arena’s romantasy duology, Forever wins Gina Banks’s debut romance about an astronaut and a content creator stuck in space, and more. Viengsamai Fetters at Kensington’s Erewhon imprint took North American rights, at...
Among the headlines, publishers and authors team on a class action copyright lawsuit against Google, and PEN America’s president resigns. Comics veteran Stephen Wacker has been named editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, succeeding C.B....
“The idea behind hand-lettering the whole book is that I really wanted to make all the elements of lettering more a part of the artwork, in a way that comics all over the world used to do, before we could make fonts based on our own...
A host of booksellers in small towns and rural areas are opening romance-focused stores that double as community spaces. wHEN THE RIPPED BODICE in Culver City, Calif., opened its doors in 2016, it was the nation’s first and only romance...
We talk with authors Garth Nix and Dana Mashoian Walrath, and with the new associate publisher of Graphix. How do you find writing for adults versus writing for teens? You know, the distinctions are fairly arbitrary. In fact, quite a number of...
In her latest comics series, Kelly Sue DeConnick mixes monstrous magic into a timely family dramedy. RIGHT BEFORE this call, I got my parent coffee,” Kelly Sue DeConnick says via Zoom from her home in Portland, Ore. The comics author has two...
