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Flight of Fantasy
Bloomsbury is anticipating record sales numbers this fiscal year, with revenue expected to top $474 million thanks in part to two new titles in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series. Little, Brown will publish President Joe Biden’s memoir about his time in office, Promise Me, America, this November, and Jonathan Karp’s nascent Simon Six imprint has found its first fiction title in Andrew Lewis Conn’s novel I Swore I’d Burn This Book. Print unit sales of Homer’s The Odyssey are so far up 76% over last year, courtesy of Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming film adaptation, out this Friday. And we rounded up this month’s biggest book club picks. In other news, the Guardian wonders why nine of the 10 bestselling novels in the U.K. involve a murdered woman. Carey Mulligan has been tapped to play Mrs. Greenwood in Focus Features’ film adaptation of The Bell Jar, per Variety. For Lit Hub, author Robert Moor minds the gap between how a book is marketed and packaged, and the book itself. And the New York Times Book Review’s Alexandra Jacobs revisits J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, which turns 75 this week.
Following a strong first four months of fiscal 2027, the publisher said it expects to post record profits of around $474 million, thanks in large part to two new Sarah J. Maas titles and the premiere of HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series. more »
David Shelley and Sally Kim acquired world rights to Promise Me, America, the former president’s “personal account of his historic presidency,” in a deal brokered by CAA. Reagan Arthur will edit the book, which is slated for November 17. more »
Year-to-date sales of Homer’s 3,000-year-old epic are up 76% across all editions thanks to Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated movie, according to Circana BookScan. more »
Karp acquired world rights to Andrew Lewis Conn’s I Swore I’d Burn This Book, “a Nabokovian mystery,” from Henry Dunow at Dunow, Carlson, & Lerner. Simon Six’s inaugural title, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Take Me to Your Leader, released in May. more »
Among this month’s selections, Good Housekeeping highlights Maggie O’Farrell’s latest, and Reese’s Book Club spotlights a founding mother for the nation’s semiquincentennial. more »
We’re looking for forthcoming memoirs and biographies featuring extraordinary people—whether famous, forgotten by history, or overlooked until now—for whom religion or spirituality is a significant theme in their life story, releasing between August 2026 and July 2027. more »
Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson topped last month’s BLK Bestsellers List, followed by Reese’s Book Club pick A Pair of Aces and Oprah’s Book Club pick Kin. more »
The showrunner behind Netflix’s new adaptation of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic yet controversial children’s books worked hard to right the wrongs of the novels she grew up reading and loving. more »
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Job Moves
- Daniela Salazar has been promoted to marketing associate at Ecco.
- Victoria Stargiotti has joined Scholastic as editorial assistant.
- Rachel Bryfogle has joined Scholastic as editor.
- Ellie Pritchett has been promoted to editor at Vintage.
Bookstore News
- Florida Indie Thrives Three Years On: Flutterbuy Books and More, the only bookstore in Cape Coral, has been embraced by the community after its last indie was destroyed by Hurricane Ian.
- Romantic Reads in Texas: Daydream Bookstore Cafe, which opened in Arlington this past April, caters to women looking to indulge in romance novels.
- Canadian Bookstore Honored by Stamp: A new postal stamp will honor Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium in Vancouver, 26 years after it successfully fought to sell queer materials the state deemed “obscene.”
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The New Prophecy (Warriors Graphic Novel #1) by Erin Hunter, adapted by Gibson Twist and illustrated by Sammy Savos, is the #1 title on our children’s frontlist fiction bestseller list. See the full list »
‘Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control’ by Kelly Lytle Hernández“In this landmark examination of the racist roots of the American immigration system, MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winner Hernández argues that ‘U.S. immigration control operates as a whites-only machine’.... Throughout, Hernández surfaces heartening ways that ‘defiant migrants and their advocates have always figured out how to sabotage the machine.’ It’s a definitive and forceful call for reform.” more »
Picture of the Day
Chuck Tingle launched his new horror novel, Fabulous Bodies (Tor Nightfire), on July 7 at Third Place Books’ flagship location in Lake Forest Park, Wash. This year marked the author’s fourth event at the bookstore in as many years, drawing more than 500 people.
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