The PW/Edelweiss Announcements Database
Data on more than 11,000 books in over 50 categories, all publishing in Spring 2013.Focus on LGBT, 2013
The LGBT Pride Month is celebrated each June in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots. It seems especially fitting that some of the season’s recent and forthcoming titles uncover and explore the LGBT experience from a historical angle. more...cookbooks and more. Sign up here!
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Adult Announcements
Exploring LGBT History: LGBT 2013
The LGBT Pride Month is celebrated each June in remembrance of the 1969 Stonewall riots, and from a vantage point midway through this year’s observance it seems especially fitting that some of the season’s recent and forthcoming titles uncover and explore the LGBT experience from a historical angle.
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Galley Talk
Galley Talk: 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' by Tom Kizzia
Longtime Alaskan journalist Tom Kizzia is the only person who could have written Pilgrim’s Wilderness (Crown, July), an in-depth, heart-wrenching book.
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Adult Announcements
TeleBrands: Selling Books ‘As Seen on TV’
From the man behind the Slice-O-Matic food slicer, the Ped Egg “no-mess” way to remove callouses, and Pocket Hose, “the amazing expandable garden hose,” comes a new product: physical books.
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Galley Talk
Galley Talk: 'The Wednesday Daughter' by Meg Waite Clayton
In Meg Waite Clayton’s The Wednesday Daughters (Ballantine, July), Anna Page, Hope, and Julie are lifelong friends who are the daughters of lifelong friends.
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Galley Talk
Galley Talk: 'The World’s Strongest Librarian,' by Josh Hanagarne
In his brave and funny memoir, The World’s Strongest Librarian (Gotham, June), Josh Hanagarne uses the Dewey decimal system to guide us through the ups and downs of battling Tourette’s.
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Galley Talk
Galley Talk: 'The Boys in the Boat' by Daniel James Brown
I’m not built to be a world-class rower, but I was certainly capable of thoroughly enjoying Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat (Viking, June), a splendid account of the 1936 Olympic quest of this rowing crew from the University of Washington.
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Adult Announcements
Welcome the Millennials: Business Management and Leadership
Something different is afoot in the workplace these days, due in no small part to the rise of the Millennials, aka Generation Y—loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000.
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Galley Talk
Galley Talk: Joanna Hershon's 'A Dual Inheritance'
Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance (Ballantine, May 7) gets my vote for best book of the year, hands down.
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Adult Announcements
Presumed Guilty: True Crime
Imagine this: a decade after an unsolved double murder, your estranged spouse claims that you confessed to the crimes, and you end up behind bars for nearly 40 years.
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Adult Announcements
Cinema Redux: Summer Movie Tie-ins 2013
A major voice in the world of movies was silenced last week when beloved film critic Roger Ebert succumbed to cancer after a long and public battle.
