Maas Appeal

Bloomsbury has raised its long-term profit projections for the fiscal year after announcing it will publish the next two installments in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series in late 2026 and early 2027. Brendan Cahill, a former exec at Penguin Random House and Open Road, has founded a new press with an emphasis on nonfiction, and video game creator Dan Houser’s entertainment company Absurd Ventures has launched a book publishing imprint. Dark Horse founder and CEO Mike Richardson has been let go from his position, marking the latest in a string of shakeups at the comics publisher since it was acquired by Embracer Group in 2022. A Wyoming bill to censor “sexually explicit materials” in libraries across the state has failed to advance, reports WyoFile. The Guardian draws attention to the thriving state of physical books and other printed media in France. Author Emily Hodgson Anderson considers how, before the dawn of AI, ghostwriting influenced our notions of intellectual property ownership, for Lit Hub. For the New Republic, professor and author Greg Barnhisel explores how Viking’s Malcolm Cowley reshaped American literature. Lily King and John U. Bacon once again topped the Independent Publishers Caucus’s Independent Press Top 40 lists. And Toni Burbank, who edited nonfiction at Bantam for more than four decades, has died at 85.