On the Front Lines: LGBT Publishing 2011

In examining today's LGBT publishing scene from a variety of perspectives, we've asked four industry players—publisher, editor, agent, and advocate—to give us their outlook on this ever-evolving landscape. In the wake of a noted LGBT bookstore's recent closing, we've surveyed retailers whose LGBT stores are going strong; and we take a look at the LGBT publishing scene's 25-year-old awards program.

Throne of Gains

On April 17, HBO will premiere the first of 10 episodes of Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, and everyone who publishes epic fantasy is looking for a ride on the series' cinematic coattails.

Science Fiction Reports For Active Duty

The military and genre fiction have a close and complex relationship. Science fiction "is the #1 choice for young men," says Connie Lefever, whose Coronado, Calif., Bay Books store is popular among service members at nearby bases, and young men don't change their reading habits when they join the military. The same is true of military women, Lefever notes, who share their civilian counterparts' fondness for urban fantasy and paranormal romance.

Large as Life: Large Print Publishing in 2011

The words "large-print publishing" may never conjure visions of high-profile auctions with houses battling over million-dollar deals that set the heart pounding and the eyes gleaming, but most publishers in the category say that's just fine. In fact, the relative stability of the large-print format has traditionally been a major selling point in a tumultuous industry.

A Classic Leads the Field

Where do our great sports books come from and what are they about? Vivid recreations of great contests? Lives of great figures? Dissections of famous acts, singular feats, or dramatic blunders? That might be the formula for our great military books, political biographies, and works of social science, but the most enduring sports books tap into another level where sport is connected to something else—about human spirit, national character, and belief.

The Parent Trap

The Wall Street Journal's provocative January 8 headline alone—"Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior"—would have been enough to spark intense discussion. But coupled with a no-nonsense-tolerated excerpt from Amy Chua's parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin Press, Jan.), that sharply contrasts so-called "Eastern" and "Western" styles of parenting, what resulted was nothing less than a firestorm.

Why I Write: Rick Steves

We all have pastimes. I don't knit or follow sports. I don't do crossword puzzles. I can't play cribbage. But I do write. I journal (just for myself) when I'm going through tough personal times.

Three Questions for Paul Theroux

In The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), prolific travel writer Paul Theroux collects insights from other writers, sources he deems "real and reliable travelers—not the sort who boast about their sunny experience in Happyland." We spoke with Theroux about his new book.

Digitizing the World

Travel guides: the canaries in the digital coal mine. While no category of print books is immune to the changes wrought by growth in e-books and apps, books on travel—with their need for constant updating—lend themselves especially well to digital media.

Ten Travel Treats

The travel category does not lack for quirkiness. Here are our picks for the 10 most intriguing forthcoming travel books.

The State of (Fair) Play

A cryptic, taunting criminal tells his targets exactly the number they are thinking of, even though they selected the digits randomly. A murderer walks away from a bloody corpse, leaving tracks in the snow that just end, leaving no evidence of how the killer escaped from the scene.

The Civil War at 150

The Civil War is a perennial staple for publishers of war and military titles and, with the 150th anniversary of the start of that war occurring in April, publishers are gearing up to offer even more books on the topic.

Spring Audio in Bloom

The first wave of spring audio releases is out of the gate, with much more to follow in time for the road trips and vacation listening of the season. We’ve pulled together some highlights of the newest offerings and crafted a list that provides a taste of the variety of titles available.

'PW' Spring Announcements Go Live

The aggregation of more than 6,000 spring book listings submitted by publishers to PW via Above the Treeline’s Edelweiss tool is now live. The PW January 24 print issue contains selected highlights of the season, but the full season is now viewable and browsable online at http://announcements.publishersweekly.com/.

Hello, Spring: Spring 2011 Adult Announcements

With much of the country in the grip of cold and wintry weather, we nonetheless present to readers our annual overview of the spring season, a harbinger of good books, and warmer days, to come.

New Politics: Political Books for 2011

Democrats received a mighty "shellacking"—in President Obama's words—in the 2010 midterm election. The Republican Party gained 680 seats in state legislative races and retook control of the House, gaining a net 63 seats from Democrats. Pelosi's out as Speaker, Boehner's in, and 138 members of Congress rode to victory with Tea Party support.

Going for Broke

The names Gordon Murray and Dan Goldie probably wouldn't have rung a bell for many people outside the world of Wall Street until a few weeks ago—November 27, to be exact. That Saturday the New York Times's Your Money column by Ron Lieber told the story of a recent book on investment under the headline "A Dying Banker's Last Instructions."

AFRICAN-AMERICAN INTEREST ADULT TITLES 2010

The following is a list of African-American interest adult books, fiction and nonfiction, publishing between September 2010 and March 2011.

Notable African American Titles

African-American Publishing in the Digital Era

Many publishers are still trying to understand what impact the rapid growth of digital technology will have on the industry and their businesses. Publishers of titles aimed at the African-American market are no different.