Bestseller Stat Shot
The kickoff installment to Rick Riordan’s new Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series, The Sword of Summer, easily topped the children’s fiction bestseller list this week with 69K print units sold. The series is inspired by Norse mythology and follows several monumentally successful series that are based on other ancient mythologies (Greek, Egyptian, Greco-Roman) and that have sold many millions of copies in print and have been spun off into a film franchise. Here’s how Sword fared its first week out compared to Riordan’s prior series launches.
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Podcasts
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The More to Come crew recaps a bustling New York Comic Con, which saw record attendance and a heightened focus on diversity.
Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick discusses The Marvels (Scholastic), his third novel with pictures after The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck.
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Author Jenny Lawson, aka the Bloggess, discusses Furiously Happy (Flatiron), her new book. And PW news director Rachel Deahl talks about the big deals at Frankfurt this year.
