Since I’ve so many little publisher previews to try and get done before Spring has sprung, I’ve decided to concentrate on the slightly smaller folks. The big six (soon to be five) have some great stuff too and I’ll be sure to try and talk ‘em up, but for now let’s look at some folks [...]
With all the mergers going on within the publishing world these days, a couple librarians and I were joking the other day about those mergers we’d actually like to see. And because we are horribly spoiled east-coasters it didn’t take long for us to wish that Chronicle Books could merge with someone like Enchanted Lion [...]
Oh the previews are here, they’re here, they’re here, The wonderful previews are here Time to go out, go out, go out, Go out and order a . . . . beer? No, no . . . From that catchy little tune (working on it) I hope you realize that preview season is upon us [...]
Been a while since I indulged in one of these, right? Well, those Top 100 polls threw me for a bit of a doozy and believe it or not I’m only catching up now. Before I took a month and a half to post their results I had five or six librarian previews on the [...]
You’ve got your big-time fancy pants New York publishers on the one hand, and then you have your big-time fancy pants Boston publishers on the other. A perusal of Minders of Make-Believe by Leonard Marcus provides a pretty good explanation for why Boston is, in its way, a small children’s book enclave of its own. [...]
On to Viking! Viking This year I have carefully been keeping track of all the books that Kirkus stars. This is partially because Kirkus doesn’t star all that many things and partly because I like their taste. When I get a chance I go out, locate the starred books and read them through. One such [...]
And now the thrilling conclusion! Just kidding. I’ve lots more to do. But if you already read Part One then this should fall along the same lines. Razorbill In the past this imprint was best known for its teen fare. A slow and steady increase in their middle grade offerings, however, has turned it into [...]
It’s baaaack! Preview season is up and running and to kick it all off we begin with one of the biggies. Thanks to my new fancy dancy job I am now able to stay for a whole librarian preview without rushing back to cover the reference desk. So that’s nice. The downside is that there [...]
Granted we are currently IN the Spring of 2012 so this is probably less of a preview and more of a . . . uh . . . here and now discourse. But by my reckoning Blue Apple Books is one of those smaller pubs that don’t get a lot of airplay next to the [...]
As publisher previews go this may be one of my shorter posts if only because the featured publisher of the day is not a large sort. I have had the pleasure of seeing the products of Tara Books for a couple years now, but it was only recently that Gita Wolf herself came to town [...]
Yeah, remember when I had that baby and everything looked like things were going to stay exactly the same, like nothing had changed a jot? Well, I’ve found at least one aspect of the blog that’s taken a serious hit since the arrive of the small Bird. Librarian previews. For some reason I just don’t [...]
There are many reasons to love Little, Brown but at the moment the company has my heart because their last librarian preview consisted of less than thirty books in total. And when you’re dealing with less than thirty books, typing up what they have is much easier on the old post-natal still-carpal-tunnely digits. So it [...]
While the message is encouraging in and of itself, Joe Sabia’s TED talk on The Technology of Storytelling is also a brilliant example of how to do an iPad presentation with skill, humor, and facts. I can’t imagine how long this three minute, fifty-one second talk took to put together, but it’s kinda worth it. [...]
What publisher created the first librarian preview, inviting local carriers of MLIS degrees to their places of work to show off the upcoming season? I don’t have an answer to that, I’m just asking. With my NYC preferences and tunnel vision my inclination is to believe that it was one of The Big Six based [...]
Here’s how paranoid I am. I saw an allusion somewhere to someone having written up the recent Harper Collins 2012 preview and my first reaction was, “GAH! Someone else is working my beat!!” That was followed promptly by a sense of profound relief. “Aww. That’s awesome. Someone else is working my beat.” Then I actually [...]
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