Erin Somers

Our newest free ebook Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter publishes today, as always packed with pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for the upcoming publishing season. For the trade editions—with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys—you can download through NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer editions of Buzz Books 2024: Fall/Winter are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple, and Google Play. Later this week we’ll convene the always-enjoyable Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel on Thursday, May 16 7 PM ET, register now […]

In case you missed it, we had another terrific evening on Thursday with five breakout authors and their editors on our latest Buzz Books Editors and Authors Panel. Here are a sampling of attendees’ comments on the event:  I really enjoyed the exchange between the editors and the authors  Excellent presentation of thoughtful, intelligent fiction. I want to read these books!  Thanks for an interesting and intriguing evening!  What a wonderful and educational session!  I want to read every book on this panel!  All of these books are so intellectual and ambitious. I cannot […]

Last week, we announced our bestseller list, The New List, which exclusively tracks new releases based on Circana Bookscan data. With lists updating on Fridays, we’ll bring you highlights weekly in Lunch, along with the complete fiction and nonfiction hardcover lists. For the week ending June 8, Eruption by Michael Crichton tops the hardcover nonfiction list, with Camino Ghosts by John Grisham at No. 2 (it was No. 1 the previous week). Stephen King’s stories You Like It Darker: Stories was in third. The title that has been on the list longest is Think Twice by Harlan Coben, now tenth, which […]

On West 27th Street in Manhattan, in a five-floor warehouse of 100,000 square feet, a naked man wearing a goat's head cavorts in strobe-lit fog.

This week’s fiction releases include new titles by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Emily Giffin, James Patterson and J. D. Barker, and Yasmin Zaher, while Gretchen Whitmer, Sarah Gerard, and Emily Van Duyne publish nonfiction works. Also publishing this week is This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2024: Spring/Summer sampler. 37 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-9? 9 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-9? From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months […]

Today we launch our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection returning for its ninth year, just in time for Steamy Lit Con and Bookstore Romance Day. Buzz Books 2024: Romance is available now, in our biggest-yet compilation, with 21 exclusive pre-publication excerpts. As usual, the “trade edition” is available from Edelweiss and NetGalley with additional publicity and marketing info, along with click-throughs to request full individual galleys. The consumer edition is also ready for download at your ebookstore of choice (Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.) You can register here for the virtual Buzz Romance Editors Panel, on Wednesday, August 21 at 7 pm ET to hear four featured authors from […]

In advance of tomorrow’s Bookstore Romance Day, don’t forget to download our Buzz Books 2024: Romance collection. The sampler is our biggest-yet compilation, with 21 exclusive pre-publication excerpts of the most talked about romance books of the coming season. The “trade edition” is available from Edelweiss and NetGalley with additional publicity and marketing info, along with click-throughs to request full individual galleys. The consumer edition is also ready for download at your ebookstore of choice (Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.) You can also register here for the virtual Buzz Romance Editors Panel, on Wednesday, August 21 at 7 pm ET to hear four featured authors from the […]

O n Tuesday, Sally Rooney will publish her fourth novel, Intermezzo, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Writers, editors, and booksellers weigh in on the new book by the world’s most talked-about young novelist.

In her latest novel, Long Island Compromise, the novelist explores how a kidnapping transforms a suburban New York family.