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Crossing Over
Penguin’s Berkley Books and Penguin Young Readers coming together to launch Berkley XO, a new imprint for fiction with adult-YA crossover appeal. We rounded up this month’s biggest book club picks, including selections by Oprah, Jenna Bush Hager, and more. Valerie Pierce will now head up the indie sales team at Sourcebooks, and Wiley has partnered with AI firm Anthropic on a pilot project to integrate AI into scholarly research. Apple will adapt Elissa Sussman’s rom-com Funny You Should Ask into a TV series with Regé-Jean Page attached to star, reports Deadline. Amid controversy over the veracity of Raynor Winn’s The Salt Path, Penguin UK has said it “undertook all due diligence” before releasing the bestselling book, per the BBC. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune spotlights how Southern California bookstores are banding together to support immigrants amid growing fears about ICE raids. Vox weighs in on the literacy crisis among young readers—and wonders just how much of a crisis it really is. The Guardian talks with dismayed translators about a buzzy new AI translation service for fiction writers and publishers in the U.K. And children’s book publisher Katie Cunningham has died at 43.
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Berkley, Penguin Young Readers Team Up on New Imprint
Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin, will join forces with Penguin Young Readers to launch Berkley XO, a new imprint for fiction with crossover appeal for both adult and YA readers. more »
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Children’s Publisher Katie Cunningham Dies at 43
Cunningham, known as a visionary editor with a keen eye for new talent, died on July 4 at her home in Hudson, Mass., following complications from ovarian cancer. Cunningham spent 20 years at Candlewick Press, and in March was named publisher at Nosy Crow Inc. more »
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Book Club Picks for July 2025
Oprah selects the latest novel from Bruce Holsinger, Read with Jenna spotlights Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores’s debut, and more picks from the nation’s biggest book clubs. more »

Summer Reads 2025
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Valerie Pierce to Head Sourcebooks’ Indie Sales Team as VP
In her new role as VP of independent sales and retail marketing, Pierce will lead the publisher’s in-house sales team dedicated to indie bookstores. more »
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Wiley Partners with Anthropic on AI Integration for Scholarly Research
Wiley will collaborate with Anthropic on a pilot project to integrate academic and scholarly research into its AI with the aim of establishing best practices around accurate and consistent citations. more »
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‘Not Just a Literary Prize’: PW Talks with the 2025 Women’s Prize Winners
Yael van der Wouden and Rachel Clarke won this year’s Women’s Prizes for Fiction and Non-Fiction for their respective books The Safekeep and The Story of a Heart. The U.K.-based Women’s Prize for Fiction, which recognizes women novelists working in English, is now in its 30th year, while its sister award for nonfiction was launched in 2024. more »

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Greenleaf and Kiplinger Launch Personal Finance Imprint
Greenleaf Book Group will team with personal finance site Kiplinger to bring its wealth management advice to print with Kiplinger Books, a hybrid publisher that plans to release 25-30 books per year. more »
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Inaugural Black Book Bash Heads to Florida
The first-ever Black Book Bash, an all-Black literary festival, will take place October 3-5 in Jacksonville and feature such authors as Clarence A. Haynes, Wanda M. Morris, and justin a. reynolds. more »
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Out of the Woods: PW Talks with Gus Gordon
Veteran illustrator Gus Gordon makes his solo graphic novel debut with the middle grade comic Into the Bewilderness, featuring guitar-playing brown bear Luis and his grumpy best pal Pablo, a mole. Gordon spoke with us about his love of opposites, and the changes he’s experienced over his 30-year career. more »


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Job Moves
  • Nick Garrison has been named publishing director at Allen Lane Canada.
  • Paul Lucas has joined Regal Hoffmann & Associates as literary agent.
  • Lauren Owens has joined K.Co Press as its 2025 editorial fellow.
  • Candice Coote has been promoted to associate editor at Berkley.
  • Mary Baker has been promoted to associate editor at Berkley.
  • Adria Iwasutiak has joined Penguin Canada as associate publisher.
  • Meredith Pal has been promoted to publishing manager at Penguin Canada and Penguin Random House Canada.
  • David Ross has been promoted to editorial director at Hamish Hamilton Canada.
  • Michelle Lecumberry is being promoted to senior marketing manager at William Morrow.
  • Tiffani Ren is joining Zando as marketing manager.
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Awards News
  • David Thompson Award Winners: Lucinda Surber and Stan Ulrich have won this year’s David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award, presented by the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention.
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Children’s Fiction Bestseller List
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins is the #1 title on PW’s children’s frontlist fiction bestseller list. See the full list »
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Review of the Day: ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ by Kiran Desai
“Booker winner Desai returns 19 years after The Inheritance of Loss with an elegant bildungsroman of two Indian people and their convergence in the early 2000s United States.... This ambitious yet intimate saga is well worth the wait.” more »

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Picture of the Day

Laura Lavoie, author of Cousins! (Roaring Brook), and Rebecca Donnelly, author of Chess Club (FSG) and Survival of the Fittest 2 (Henry Holt), signed copies of their picture books at the Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, N.Y., on June 28. During the signing, governor Kathy Hochul (l.) bought a copy of Cousins! for her granddaughter and asked Lavoie to sign it.

Courtesy Macmillan
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