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DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News PRH options Friday Barnes and Bookshop Detectives Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand has optioned the screen rights to RA Spratt’s Friday Barnes series and Gareth and Louise Ward’s Bookshop...

I had the pleasure of chatting about my upcoming novel The Correction on the Creative Writing Life Podcast. For those interested please see here below. Ahead of its launch on March 25th, you may pick up a free ARC copy if you’d like here: NetGalley

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Red Wheel to Distribute New World Library Mind‑body press Red Wheel/Weiser will take over distribution of New World Library’s roughly 600‑title catalogue from PGW on 1 September. The move aligns two New...

Great work, Pete :) You've put so much hard work into this!

Publishing Industry News Around the Book World: Monday, February 16, 2026 – Publishing Perspectives Publishing Perspectives’ international round‑up spotlighted anti‑piracy crackdowns in India and Italy, Taiwan’s rapid shift towards audiobook...

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Hard work continues on this ground-breaking innovation that is oh-so-close to release :) A few screenshots to tantalize you… Here’s the default view that your readers will initially see… Before you’ve started to apply some very exciting themes...

Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of February 16 2026 Publishers Weekly reports that Grand Central preempted world rights to **Blair**, Cecily von Ziegesar’s novel imagining a grown‑up Blair from *Gossip Girl*, while Crown preempted a...

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...