Publishers Weekly

'Royal Spin' is the inaugural collaboration between Omid Scobie, an authoritative voice on the British Royal Family, and National Book Award–winning YA author Robin Benway.

Brandon Sanderson raised more than $16 million from 55,000 people to fund a leatherbound edition of 'Words of Radiance.' The total is the most ever raised on the crowdfunding platform BackerKit. The campaign, launched earlier this week, ends March 30.

The Japanese artist is credited with helping to change the history of manga, including in the U.S. market, where he achieved massive mainstream success. His Dragon Ball series, which ran from 1984 to 1995, remains one of the bestselling manga of all time.

Revenue in 12 of 16 overseas book markets rose last year, even as unit sales fell, according to a new joint report from Nielsen/GFK Entertainment.

Rebecca Yarros's publisher, Entangled Publishing, has signed agreements with 12 self-published romance authors to acquire print rights to their bestselling e-books.

A number of novels, memoirs, and graphic novels out this week explore the roles of mothers and the experience of motherhood in distinct ways.

Albert Whitman & Company co-owner Patrick McPartland acknowledged the publisher’s recent difficulties amid authors and agents' complaints about delayed payments and a lack of transparency.

We’ve gathered a list of some upcoming middle grade graphic adaptations.

There’s more to adapting a chapter book into a graphic novel than just drawing pictures to go with the words. Adapters often bring a whole new level of nonverbal communication to the page.

As the middle grade graphic novel category has grown in recent years, the number of graphic adaptations of middle grade books has exploded.

Whatever the future holds, local comic shops thrive when they deliver what few bookstores can: a “third place” for fans.

Tommy Orange follows his 2018 debut, ‘There There,’ with ‘Wandering Stars,’ #8 on our hardcover fiction list. Plus Peter Schweizer, Dr. Phil, and C.J. Box are among the week’s big debuts, and longtime Silicon Valley journalist Kara Swisher comes out swinging with ‘Burn Book.’

The owner of Portland, Ore.–based comics shop Books with Pictures is leading an industry-wide effort to improve the quality of comics metadata.

Here’s what retailers across the country told us about the comics and graphic novels they’re handselling this spring.

Wonder where you’ve wandered into—and why there’s a looming statue of an Ewok? How are comics shops different from general bookstores? If you’re asking that question, you definitely haven’t browsed a comics shop before. Here are six hallmarks that set the specialty retailer apart.

We take a look at the publication process for the author’s debut novel.

Pantheon takes journalist Paola Ramos’s book on the rise of the Latino far right; Pegasus buys YA author Kristina Pérez’s adult debut, and more.

Among the week's headlines: librarians head to Washington D.C. to push for library funding; a Llano County librarian is suing for wrongful termination after being fired for refusing to ban books; and EveryLibrary issues a paper exploring the political threats facing academic libraries.

We’ve gathered a list of some upcoming middle grade graphic adaptations.

There’s more to adapting a chapter book into a graphic novel than just drawing pictures to go with the words. Adapters often bring a whole new level of nonverbal communication to the page.