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This week’s fiction releases include new novels by Jennette McCurdy, Gabriel Tallent, Julian Barnes, Dean Koontz, and Alice Feeney, while nonfiction includes titles from Chuck Klosterman and Alia Hanna Habib. 29 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-20 7 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-20 Also publishing this week is The Poet Empress by Shen Tao, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Fall/Winter anthology. In this month’s Authors Lunch newsletter, Tao discusses holding a day job while writing, her pitch to her agent, and writing from the heart. We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly …
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Founder of Miss Excel Kat Norton's THE POLARITY PRINCIPLES: HARNESS THE POWER OF OPPOSITES TO WORK SMARTER AND TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE, a playbook for turning perceived opposites into your unfair advantage, redesigning how you work and live to unlock results that compound over time while avoiding burnout, to Marisa Vigilante at Hay House, with Anne Barthel editing, in a significant deal, at auction, by Carly Watters at P.S. Literary Agency (NA). Rights also to Iain Campbell at John Murray … read more
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