Follower Counts Are Unreliable Metric for Book Sales
Worth reading this article from the New York Times (December 23, 2021). One lit agent sums it up: “If we knew (what would work for a given book), publishers would make no mistakes.”
Commons Sense: A Strategy for Civic Education, Michael Feuer
The Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University presents a powerful argument for reviving and rethinking a civic education curriculum at the high school and college level–one that encompasses tools for understanding current and future threats to democracy. (Johns Hopkins University Press, World Rights, 2023)
BEYOND ABUELA’S KITCHEN, Karla A. Salinari
Latina holistic health coach Karla A. Salinari draws on her Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban family traditions to create a flavorful plant-based Latinx cuisine. (Skyhorse Publishing, World Rights, May 2023)
THE WIDEST NET: Unlock Untapped Markets and Discover New Customers Right in Front of You, Pamela Slim
Discover and create a dynamic new model for growing your business by connecting with customers outside your usual field of view Do you think you know your ideal customer? Think again. Many businesses create an ideal consumer profile―aiming all their sales and marketing efforts towards this single type of person―and end up missing out on […]
Supply Chain Issues Disrupt and Delay Printing and Publication
We’re going through an unprecedented disruption. This article lays out the many factors that are causing book publication dates to slip, sometimes by months or even a whole season. https://www.vox.com/culture/22687960/book-shortage-paper-ink-printing-labor-explained
THE LAST POLICEMAN Pilot Cast Line-Up!
Ben Winters’ THE LAST POLICEMAN trilogy, published by Quirk, will be coming soon to a screen. Interestingly, Fox decided to flip genders on the lead detective, and will use the title THE LAST POLICE. Time to read the books, if you haven’t already. Here’s the cast line-up, just announced on Deadline Hollywood. https://deadline.com/2021/10/the-last-police-blu-hunt-reno-wilson-maximiliano-hernandez-dawnn-lewis-cast-kyle-killen-fox-pilot-1234847845/
WHY IS MY CHILD IN CHARGE? A Roadmap to End Power Struggles, Increase Cooperation, and Find Joy in Parenting Young Children, Claire Lerner
Solve typical toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness and self-control. Through stories from her practice, Claire Lerner shows parents how making critical mindshifts—seeing their children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. This process puts parents back in the driver’s […]
RESERVATIONS FOR SIX, Lindsey Palmer
Pitched in the tradition of Emma Straub and Tom Perrotta, Palmer’s fourth novel about three couples who celebrate every birthday together at their favorite restaurant for a decade, until their lives unravel when one turns 40 and announces over dinner that he wants a divorce, forcing each couple to reexamine what’s brought and kept them […]
WE SHARE THE SAME SKY, by Rachael Cerrotti, now in print, audio and ebook.
WE SHARE THE SAME SKY: A Memoir of Memory and Migration, Rachael Cerrotti
A granddaughter’s decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother’s wartime escape and weave together the thin threads of family history. In 2009, Rachael Cerrotti, a college student pursuing a career in photojournalism, asked her grandmother, Hana, if she could record her story. Rachael knew that her grandmother was a Holocaust survivor and the only one in […]