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DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Grand Central preempts Cecily von Ziegesar’s 20‑years‑later Gossip Girl novel The week’s biggest deal saw Grand Central preempt world rights to Blair, a novel by Cecily von Ziegesar set twenty years after...

If you have a finished manuscript of an adventure type then this is a good contest for you. Last year it looks like they considered more historical and magic realism sort of adventures. A friend won it with her family story of evading Japanese...

Publishing Industry News Crown, Grand Central Snag Novels Revisiting Beloved Characters as Adults Grand Central pre‑empted world rights to Cecily von Ziegesar’s “Blair”, a novel that imagines the Gossip Girl characters as adults, while Crown...

LLMs will be only way to achieve this. No one is going to pay a human. We present an innovative method to predict the sunspot number index for Solar Cycles 25 and 26 using uni- and multivariate machine learning techniques, various precursor...

Daily Book News Thursday, 12th February 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Liate Stehlik promoted to CEO of HarperCollins U.S. Trade HarperCollins elevated Liate Stehlik from running the Morrow Group and children’s division to CEO...

Daily Book News Wednesday, 11th February 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Trade sales mixed in 2025 while religion sales rose The Association of American Publishers’ StatShot report showed that US trade revenue edged up about...

Publishing Industry News Study reveals books boost dating appeal among Dutch singles A Dutch survey found that young adults increasingly judge potential partners by the contents of their bookshelves, with more than half associating reading with...

Just a quick comment. Short answer – No, don't give up - but you do have other options now. Litopia is “destination agnostic”. We’re not here to push one or other alternatives onto writers. We will help you towards whichever destination is right...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Danish students will soon face lawsuits for pirating digital textbooks A Danish anti‑piracy group says it will sue students caught sharing illicit digital textbooks but refused to say how many it plans to...

Great session! I'd be happy to transcript too if you need a second extra eye (or two!) on it :face-with-monocle:

Great idea! Sorry i also failed on the tech side. I thought I was recording as well, but, in a technical sense, i was not. At all.

That's brilliant! Very much appreciated. I'll get the assets up now, then DM you full instructions :) p.

🙋‍♀️ I would be happy to

Last night the Book club spent a fabulous evening with Annie Summerlee… if you were there, I think you’ll agree it was an excellent event. Annie was incredibly open and helpful to everyone. We all left with a smile on our faces, Annie is very...

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Manga publishing looks east as Japan courts India Japanese publishers deployed manga creator Yoshitoki Ōima on a January tour of the New Delhi World Book Fair and Jaipur Literature Festival, positioning...