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  • Book Deals: Week of May 5, 2025

    Emily Bestler heads to New Zealand in a new mystery series, Dell is off to the races with a romance series set in the world of Formula One racing, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Book Deals: Week of April 28, 2025

    Summit picks up a classic murder mystery, David Leavitt takes his latest to Bloomsbury, Norton readies a contemporary Icelandic saga, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Book Deals: Week of April 21, 2025

    FSG pulls in a hot history of the artificial intelligence industry, two major names in music sell two new books, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Book Deals: Week of April 14, 2025

    Ballantine bets big on a novel about a runaway heiress in Prohibition-era Detroit, Louise Penny takes Chief Inspector Gamache back to Minotaur for two more, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Book Deals: Week of April 7, 2025

    Avid Reader secures a subversive and high-octane debut, Viking picks up a history of an authoritarian-leaning corporate titan, two global superstars sign with Penguin Random House, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Crown to Publish True Crime Book Cowritten by Dwayne Johnson

    The currently untitled book, by actor and professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and journalist Nick Bilton, will chronicle “the extraordinary story of the rise and fall of Hawaii’s most notorious crime syndicate.”

  • One World Nets Three-Book Deal with Steph Curry

    Chris Jackson, publisher and editor-in-chief at the Penguin Random House imprint, has picked up three books by Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry. The first, Shot Ready, hits shelves on September 9.

  • Random House to Publish New Salman Rushdie Collection in November

    The Booker Prize–winning author will publish a collection of stories and novellas, The Eleventh Hour, with Random House on November 4.

  • ‘Brave’ D.C. Episcopal Bishop Inks Two Deals with PRH

    Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Washington, D.C., who urged President Donald Trump to show “mercy” in his second term, has inked deals with two Penguin Random House imprints for books for young people.

  • Book Deals: Week of March 24, 2025

    Hogarth hauls in a haunting tale of 1980s New York City, Wednesday and Saturday ink deals for a pair of romantasies, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Penguin Press to Publish Gisèle Pelicot’s Memoir

    A Hymn to Life, by the French woman who made headlines worldwide last year when she waived her right to anonymity in a sexual assault lawsuit filed against her husband and 50 other men, is slated to hit shelves next January.

  • Book Deals: Week of March 17, 2025

    William Morrow picks up a Pulitzer Prize–nominated playwright’s debut novel, Poisoned Pen bags a buzzy psychological thriller, Ten Speed Graphic readies a Rebecca Yarros adaptation, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • London Book Fair 2025: The Books of the Show

    It’s one of the busiest weeks for dealmaking on the book business calendar. We’re keeping track of the big book deals you need to know about while out exploring the show floor.

  • Book Deals: Week of March 10, 2025

    A beloved romance novelist and master supernatural thriller filmmaker team up at Little Random, a Nobel laureate readies his latest at Transit, a PW Star Watch Superstar inks her first deals at Putnam, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Little, Brown to Publish Meta CMO’s Digital Marketing Guide

    Click Here: The Art and Science of Digital Marketing and Advertising, the debut book by Meta chief marketing officer and VP of analytics Alex Schultz, is slated for October 7.

  • Harper to Publish Collection of Harper Lee’s Stories, Essays

    The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays, which will hit shelves on October 21, collects eight early short stories—many of them unseen—and eight nonfiction pieces by the To Kill a Mockingbird author, who died in 2016.

  • Rockstar Games Cofounder Novelizes Popular Podcast for New Imprint

    Dan Houser will publish his debut novel, A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath, an adaptation of his hit podcast, this fall, under the new publishing arm of his entertainment company, Absurd Ventures. He will deliver a keynote at the London Book Fair this year.

  • Book Deals: Week of March 3, 2025

    A fantasy epic sells for seven figures at Bramble, Bobbi Brown brings a memoir to Marysue Rucci, Stonefruit and Del Rey pick up two multibook horror projects, and more in this week’s book deals.

  • Orbit to Publish Andrzej Sapkowski’s Next Witcher Novel

    Orbit acquired Andrzej Sapkowski’s Crossroads of Ravens in a seven-figure deal, with veteran translator David French set to translate from the Polish. The book is set for release in 19 territories on September 30.

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