Publishing's Essential
Daily Website
Daily Website
Professional databases, tools, news, and analysis that agents, editors,
publishers, writers, and industry members rely on every day.
Find and vet literary agents and agencies (and editors and imprints)
by seeing their deal history and marketplace performance
See the live market through hundreds of new deal reports every week
Read the most respected industry news and analysis
Track sales, view contacts, research bestsellers and reviews or
upgrade to see actual book sales from BookScan
For Authors
Research agents and follow deal trends through the tools pros use daily
For Agents
Track deals, editor moves and performance, online sales, imprint relationships, and post a Member Profile
For Industry Professionals
Publicists, independent editors, consultants, film/tv people, international publishers and more all take advantage of our deep resources, reporting and features
Today
Further to Monday’s story about fraud accusations against Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path, Penguin commented that they undertook “all the necessary pre-publication due diligence.” They also said they had not received “any concerns about the book’s content” before The Observer investigation. The Observer piece alleges that the book contains substantial fabrication, and omits that Winn embezzled from her employer and was involved in a fraudulent money raising scheme, among many other accusations. The publisher’s full statement to BBC News reads: “Penguin (Michael Joseph) published the Salt Path in 2018 and, like many readers, we were moved and inspired …
Deal of the Day
Author of DID YE HEAR MAMMY DIED? Seamas O'Reilly's PRESTIGE DRAMA, a darkly humorous novel set in Derry where the arrival—and disappearance—of an American actress researching her role in a film about the Troubles forces the community to reckon with its own history, to Reagan Arthur at Cardinal, by Dan Kirschen at CAA (US). Rights also to Rhiannon Smith and Caitlin Landuyt at Fleet (UK), by Harriet Poland at CAA; to Guanda (Italy), in a pre-empt; and to Les Escales (France), in a pre-empt, by Daisy Meyrick at CAA.
PM BookScan
Circana Publishers Marketplace BookScan offers reasonably priced access to the same comprehensive weekly sales data used by book publishers.
The primary service provides unlimited searches and downloads of print book sales data, as an annual subscription.
Print data subscribers can also add an ebook sales upgrade, which tracks ebook sales reported by hundreds of
publishers on a monthly basis, as well as a new digital audio upgrade, which reports sales from five publishers and
is the first available dataset for this fast-growing segment.
Featured Page
Writing by the sea at the famous Cape Cod Writers Center Conference July 31-August 3. Sign up at capecodwriterscenter.org
Job Board
Full Time
Penguin Random House
New York, NY
Most Popular Pages
Agents
Writers & Independents
Others
- Jodi Reamer (Writers House, LLC)
- Stephen Barr (Writers House, LLC)
- Lindsay Auld (Writers House LLC)
- Alexa Stark (Writers House)
- Daniel Lazar (Writers House LLC)
- Kurestin Armada (Root Literary LLC)
- Taylor Haggerty (Root Literary)
- Diana Fox (Fox Literary)
- Lauren Spieller (Folio Literary Management)
- Erin Harris (Folio Literary Management)
- Kevin Anderson & Associates (editorial services, writer; Kevin Anderson & Associates Inc)
- Philip Turner (editorial services, agent; Philip Turner Book Productions LLC)
- Julie Scheina (editorial services, consultant; Julie Scheina Editorial Services, LLC)
- Buzz, Balls & Hype (by M.J. Rose)
- Allison Brennan (writer)
- Michael Maudlin (editorial services)
- The London Ghostwriting Company (editorial services; The London Ghostwriting Company | LGC)
- Joni Rodgers (writer)
- Canaan Byrd (editorial services)
- Nancy Peske (writer, editor; Wordmason Services Inc.)
- Kathleen Ortiz (president; KO Media Management)
- Diversion Books (publisher; Diversion Books)
- North Star Editions (publisher; North Star Editions)
- Elena Giovinazzo (president and cofounder, agent; Heirloom Literary & Media)
- Lloyd Jassin (attorney, agent; Law Offices of Lloyd J. Jassin)
- Chip MacGregor (executive editor; Whitaker House Publishers)
- John Willig (consultant, agent; Literary Advisory Services)
- Dean Krystek (managing director, agent; WordLink, Incorporated)
- Brian Sweany (director of acquisitions; Recorded Books)
- Victoria Selvaggio (owner, agent; Storm Literary Agency)
- John Cusick (Folio Literary Management / Folio Jr)
- Melanie Figueroa (Root Literary)
- Margaret Sutherland Brown (Folio Literary Management)
- Katherine Odom-Tomchin (Folio Literary Management)
- Mollie Glick (Caa)
- Alexandra Machinist (Caa)
- Emily Van Beek (Folio Literary Management / Folio Jr.)
- Samantha Wekstein (Thompson Literary Agency)
- Jeff Kleinman (Folio Literary Management, LLC)
- Jeff Silberman (Folio Literary Management)
- Ami McConnell (editorial services)
- Nonfiction Authors Association Blog (by Stephanie Chandler, Nonfiction Authors Association & Writers Conference)
- K.M. Woods (writer; Olympus & Co LLC)
- Amanda Andrews (editorial services, agent; Andrews Author Services)
- Carolyn Flynn (editorial services; SoulFire Studios LLC)
- Ross Browne (editorial services; The Editorial Department, LLC)
- Lawrence Schimel (writer, literary translator)
- Jane Gomez (scout; Literary Scout Agency LLC)
- M Hendrix (writer)
- Patricia Mulcahy (editorial services, writer; Brooklyn Books)
- Andrea Barilla (editor, editorial services; Andrea Barilla Editing and Writing Services)
- Amanda Manns (publisher, editor; Creature Publishing)
- Sarah Flynn (editor, editorial services)
- Liz Pearsons (editor; Amazon, Thomas & Mercer)
- Richard Rothschild (packager; Print Matters Productions, Inc)
- Mike Bray (publisher; Wolfpack Publishing)
- Elana Seplow-Jolley (editor; New Moon Editorial)
- Anja Schmidt (executive editor, film/tv; Insight Editions)
- Sage Moon & Sarah Laudenbach (publisher; Pride with a Bite)
- Gretchen Crary (publicity/marketing; February Media)
