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Indies Group at AWP Meet
Thirty years ago, if you were in a creative writing program, in all likelihood you were a Stegner Fellow at Stanford or you were sitting in Iowa City feeling grateful to Frank Conroy.
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Batting Cleanup, #7…
The Mick, civil rights pioneers and a horse named Barbaro.
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Random House Introduces the Audio Widget
Audio clips from more than 2,200 titles published by the Random House Audio Group can now be cut and pasted by users for sampling on any Web site.
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Teri Kelly to Step Down at Houghton Mifflin
After 25 years with Houghton Mifflin--the last five as senior v-p of the trade and reference division--Teri Kelly is planning to leave the company once her replacement is found.
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Basic Launches New Imprint
Basic Ideas is the newest imprint from the Perseus Books Group.
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Distribution Deals: Hachette 2, NBN 1
Hachette Book Group has kept a former sister company in its distribution circle, while adding a client from its new corporate parent.
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No Fantasy: Home for the Midlist Author
Jason Williams isn't the first person to face a crossroads in life and choose publishing—James Laughlin, for example, could've settled on being a playboy instead of founding New Directions.
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March of the Small Presses
Bookended by Black History Month and National Poetry Month, March has never meant much for the book business.
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Trump Biographers Play Their Cards
As the finale of The Apprentice approaches, Donald Trump is taking a break from the business focus of his two major bestsellers in the last two years, and instead is offering a compendium called 'Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received.'
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The Next Young Thing(s)
Today's Turk editors came of age in a time of vast cultural and industry change. They'll preside over a lot more of it.
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Preiss Is Back with More Graphic Novels
After more than 30 years in the graphic novel business, Byron Preiss has seen it go from big to little and back again.
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Doubleday Graphic Novels Shut Down
After months of issuing conflicting responses about the future of Doubleday Graphic Novels, Doubleday has finally acknowledged that it is folding the DGN line of book-format comics barely six months after it released its first two books. Deborah Cowell, the editor who originated and directed the DGN line, left Doubleday shortly after the release of those two books--Lance Tooks's Narcissa and Jason Little's Shutterbug Follies--in October 2002.
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Alternative Comics Offers Just That
With a name like Alternative Comics, you expect something a little off the beaten path. The home to such independent comics stars as Sam Henderson, James Koschalka, Nick Bertozzi and Scott Annable, Alternative offers a range of quirky and thought-provoking material.
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Preiss Launches ibooks Graphic Novels
ibooks, a new-media and print book publisher, announced plans to launch a graphic novel publishing program early next year. The house, which publishes in a variety of categories in print and digital formats, plans to publish a graphic novel each month beginning in April 2003. Byron Preiss, publisher of ibooks, has been involved in publishing book format comics since the 1970s.
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'New Yorker' Publishes 'Under 40' Fiction List
Where's literary fiction heading on the eve of the new millennium?
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Houses With No Doors
The publishing industry's ability to serve the growing market of minority readers may be adversely affected by its failure to attract more African American, Asian and Hispanic employees into the profession.
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PW Close-Up: John and Anni Furniss's 'The Blind Woodsman'
In their new book, The Blind Woodsman: One Man's Journey to Find His Purpose on the Other Side of Darkness, husband-and-wife John and Anni Furniss share their incredible, and inspiring, life story. A tale of love and redemption, the couple explain how their relationship inspired them to create community dedicated to lifting up those struggling with mental health challenges.
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PW Close-up: Headshell
Reading a graphic novel and listening to a favorite album may appear to be decidedly different experiences. But a new collaboration between Vault Comics and iconic recording artists proves that the two art forms aren’t mutually exclusive. Headshell graphic novels offer original stories inspired by the music and allow artists “a chance to tell the stories they were never able to deliver through music alone.”
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An American First
Lori Marie Carlson-Hijuelos, wife of the late author Oscar Hijuelos, celebrates the upcoming reissues of Hijuelos’s fiction from Grand Central Publishing. (Sponsored)
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Turn the Page: PW Talks with Claire Wachtel
The editor-at-large at Union Square & Co. reflects on a storied career and looks to the future. (Sponsored)
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