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1 week ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
Jennifer Brehl at Morrow acquired North American rights, in a three-book deal, toDead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay (pictured l.) from Stephen Barbara at InkWell. The novel, the agency said, follows “a semi-professional gamer hired by a tech company to accompany a man on a long-distance trip.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
Rachael Levay at Princeton UP acquired world rights to Those People by Musa al-Gharbi (pictured l.) from Andrew Stuart at the Stuart Agency.
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2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | John Maher
Rachael Levay at Princeton UP acquired world rights to Those People by Musa al-Gharbi (pictured l.) from Andrew Stuart at the Stuart Agency.
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2 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
Through her popular Substack, Agents and Books, veteran literary agent Kate McKean has become something of a Baedeker for the book business–curious, unpacking the often perplexing particulars of the trade for more than 31,000 subscribing authors and aspirants twice a week. This week, the VP at Howard Morhaim Literary Agency puts a book on the shelf herself with Write Through It: An Insider’s Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life, published by Simon Element.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
David Drake at Crown acquired world rights to The Look by Michelle Obama (pictured l. credit: Miller Mobley) from Deneen Howell at Williams & Connolly, with U.K. and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, sold to Alison Starling at Octopus and German rights to Prestel Verlag.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
Amazon has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in its Books division, the company has confirmed. The cuts, the e-tail giant said, impacted fewer than 100 roles and, according to Reuters, include layoffs in its Kindle unit and at book review platform Goodreads. The company described the cuts as a strategic consolidation, adding that it plans to move the roles cut from the Books division to other areas of the business.
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3 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | John Maher
David Drake at Crown acquired world rights to The Look by Michelle Obama (pictured l. Photo credit: Miller Mobley) from Deneen Howell at Williams & Connolly, with U.K. and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, sold to Alison Starling at Octopus and German rights to Prestel Verlag.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher |Ed Nawotka |Sophia Stewart
At the fifth annual U.S. Book Show on June 3, hosted by Publishers Weekly at the Academy of Medicine in Harlem for the fifth annual U.S. Book Show, experts from nearly every section of the business drilled down on the many ways the book business is changing in an era increasingly characterized by chasing big books with bigger audiences and the encroachment of artificial intelligence technologies.
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3 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | John Maher
Belarusian publishers Nadia Kandrusevich, of Koska, and Dmitri Strotsev, of Hochroth Minsk, were jointly awarded the International Publishers Association’s 2025 Prix Voltaire at a ceremony at the World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway, on June 2. The two publishers, currently living in exile in Poland and Germany, respectively, were honored for “their commitment to publishing despite threats, harassment, and ultimately having to flee Belarus,” per the IPA.
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4 weeks ago | 
publishersweekly.com | Byrd Leavell |John Maher
Meg Leder at Penguin Life acquired North American rights to Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy from Matthew Freud at Freuds Group, with Laura Higginson at Ebury taking U.K., Commonwealth, and translation rights. The book, per the publisher, finds “four unlikely friends wandering through the wilds again. They’re not sure what they are looking for. They do know that life can be difficult, but that they love each other, and cake is often the answer.
