Publishers Weekly

Numerous bookstores and publishers in the Los Angeles metro area were closed and individuals evacuated on January 8 due to raging brush fires, power outages, and extreme winds. Others, such as Diesel Books in Brentwood, stayed open to serve displaced customers.

Our reviews editors name eight new books publishing in 2025 that they're particularly excited about.

A year ago, Wiley began increasing its investment in its trade publishing business and acquisitions, Those efforts are now paying out, as title output and sales have both posted solid gains.

The Booker Prize winner and National Book Award nominee of the poetry and politics of two writers whose work inspired their own.

Our reviews editors name eight new books publishing in 2025 that they're particularly excited about.

Among the former president's year-end shout-outs are novels that made the rounds on longlists for major awards, such as those by Martin MacInnes and Ayşegül Savaş and the Booker-winning Samantha Harvey, along with deep cuts from Dinaw Mengestu and Adam Moss.

Simon & Schuster has announced a new audio-first imprint, Simon Maverick, focused on self-published authors. Former Polis Books publisher Jason Pinter is the imprint’s VP and editorial director.

The imprint, a collaboration between the Crown Publishing Group and merchandising company Storehouse In A Box, will include an online platform for prospective authors to share and submit work. Storehouse In A Box president and CEO Tamira Chapman (pictured) will serve as publisher.

The 'Today' show cohost and creator of the Read with Jenna book club has reached an agreement with the Random House Publishing Group through which books signed by Hager will be released by different RHPG imprints, beginning in October. Hager Bush told 'PW' that stepping into the role of publisher "has upped my reading even more."

Among recent deals are titles to support spiritual formation, a Christian view of vices and virtues, a look at how art images of women have impacted evangelism, and more.

Books by Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Defense, detail a militantly conservative Christian's concerns for America's future.

PW talks with Erin E. Devers about how Christian teachings can reduce biased thinking in her book The Unbiased Self: The Psychology of Overcoming Cognitive Bias.'

Authors look at the spirituality of desire, offer guidance for finding true intimacy, add "magic" to relationships, and explore sexuality in ancient Christian history.

In 'Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity,' historian Diarmaid MacCulloch argues the Bible "has not proved adequate to providing answers on questions of sex and gender."

Esteemed editor and publisher Margaret Frith, retired president of children's books at Putnam, died at her home in Huntington, N.Y., on December 11, 2024. She was 88.

The retired CEO of Abrams Books has teamed with author and editor Sheridan Hay to form Filmore Projects, which will offer consulting, literary, and marketing advice for writers, publishers, and creative arts organizations and will also include a book publishing and packaging imprint, Galpón Press.

The Department of Education has officially ended plans to change eligibility rules that could have undermined the viability of Inclusive Access programs, which allow college students to pay for educational materials at below market rates.

Dallas-based Deep Vellum Publishing has acquired Fum d'Estampa Press, a British small press founded in 2020 that has published 30 translated works from Catalan, Spanish, French, and Norwegian.

Since its founding in 2008, the Washington, D.C.–based nonpartisan nonprofit News Literacy Project has been working on its mission of ensuring that all students in the U.S. master news literacy skills before high school graduation.

Reagan Arthur picks up a memoir of solo travel, a pair of French sister-authors sell the story of their famous grandmother to Europa Editions, and more in this week’s book deals.