Volume 263
Issue 38
09/19/2016
Readers Respond
This week we lost another beloved figure in the world of children’s publishing, author and illustrator Barbara Seuling. Commenting on our obituary, PW readers who had known and worked with her mourned her loss.
“Barbara was an influential force in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, a worldwide organization of 25,000 creators of books for young readers. For many years she organized an annual conference of authors and illustrators in New York at the Bank Street College.... The legions of people who knew Barbara through her work with SCBWI are mourning her loss today.”—Marvin Terban
“The world is less wise, less warm, and less welcoming for Barbara’s loss. I attended a conference at her home in Vermont and received guidance, inspiration, and love that continued on for years and led to publication.”—Rose Kent
“I would not be writing for children if I hadn’t had the fortune to land in Barbara Seuling’s workshop in her Manhattan apartment years ago.”—Roxane Orgill
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The inside story on Rick Riordan Presents, a new imprint at Disney-Hyperion curated by the mega-selling author that will focus on mythology-based fiction for middle grade readers.
A survey of Christian distributors, as the number of them hits a new low.
How a Facebook post by Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the November Paris terror attacks, turned into an international bestselling book.
An updated look at the case for and against offset printing for self-published authors.
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Blogs
A bookseller compiles a reading list of diverse nonfiction titles for children.
Podcasts
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese digs in to our annual salary survey and discusses the historic swearing in of Carla Hayden as librarian of Congress. Hayden is the first woman and the first African-American to hold the post.
The More to Come crew discusses IDW’s distribution switch, Attack on Titan, and comics events at the Small Press Expo in D.C. and the Brooklyn Book Festival in N.Y.C.
Ben Hatke talks about Mighty Jack, his new graphic novel (First Second), a modern-day reinterpretation of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Chuck Gunderson discusses the Beatles’ U.S. concert tours from 1964 to 1966, the subject of his two-volume [em]Some Fun
Tonight [/em](Backbeat).
Seanan McGuire talks about her latest novel, Once Broken Faith (DAW), book 10 in the October Daye urban fantasy series.
The New Elegant but Easy Cookbook by Marian Burros and Lois Levine (S&S) was the most-read review last week on publishersweekly.com.
