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Spring 2013 Announcements: Sports: Plumbing the Past in Pastime
Though sports is among the most contemporary of things, being both widely participatory and widely anticipatory—looking forward to the Big Game?—when it comes to publishing, it is very much about the past, the long view.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Social Sciences: Guns & Butter
Fresh off an invigorating, if exhausting, election season, this spring’s crop of social science titles reflects the complex cultural challenges underpinning the political battles facing the Obama administration in his second term.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Science: Once a Vice, Now a Virtue
A couple of established voices in science return this April to lead PW’s list of notables.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Politics: Power Struggles
Whether readers want a game-changing biography of Karl Marx or the first biography of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, this spring’s titles offer portraits of political responsibility at home and abroad.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Poetry: Looking Forward to Looking Back
Poetry fans have much to look forward to this spring, while many poets look hard and longingly at the past or extend old stories into the present.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Performing Arts: Celebrating Stars
No, not the astronomical variety, but the performers who have contributed their numerous talents in the Business known as Show. On stages around the world and on screens large and small, these multitalented folk exemplify the show biz anthem, “That’s Entertainment.”
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Music: The Many Sounds of Music
“Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember,” Burt Bacharach, composer and music producer, once said.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Memoir: This One Time, at Band Camp…
We are still telling stories about ourselves, our pasts, our presents, the terrible moments and the joyful ones, and how looking back and digging deep leads us to understanding.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: Literary Collections: The Story Behind the Story
What do we want from our favorite writers? This spring’s books suggest that we want to peek into both their minds and their mailboxes. The following titles lead readers through past lives, current struggles, and affirm the importance of the translator’s art.
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Spring 2013 Announcements: History: In-Depth & Out Loud
2013 doesn’t mark a big anniversary for any major conflict—we don’t like our wars to begin or end on the unlucky number—but plenty of blood has been spilled throughout history, and so has a lot of ink.
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Hot Money Books—Cooling Down?: Personal Finance 2012
The recovery of the U.S. economy is definitely underway.
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African-American Interest Books 2012-13: All Our Coverage
PW's announcements of African-American interest titles for 2012-2012.
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Notable African-American Titles: African-American Interest Books 2012-13
A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta and more
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The State of African-American Publishing
PW asked 11 editors and agents involved in publishing books by and about people of African descent what they’re publishing, how they find authors and manuscripts, how they market their lists, and what difficulties they face in a book market that is changing for every category.
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African-American Interest Adult Titles, 2012-2013
The following is a selective list of African-American interest books for adult readers; compiled from publisher responses to our October PW Call for Information, these titles are publishing between September 2012 and March 2013.
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Getting the Skinny: Diet and Fitness 2012
If there’s one thing that never seems to go out of style, it’s resolutions involving diet and fitness during—and especially after—the holidays.
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Guns and Diplomacy: Mysteries & Thrillers Fall 2012
As Buckminster Fuller once said, “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
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Anything Goes: Focus on Romance: Fall 2012
Romance fiction used to be simple: boy meets girl, conflict is overcome, they live happily ever after. Anything else was taboo.
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Fall 2013 Announcements Registration
Instructions and registration for PW's Spring 2013 Announcements.
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New Trends & Time-Tested Traditions: Self-Help 2012
“Isn’t the very term ‘self-help’ a little old-fashioned? Doesn’t self-help really refer to any book right now that serves the very natural drive of all human beings to find happiness and to be the best that they can be?”
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