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Cartoonist Sammy Harkham on Authentic World-Building & Going Beyond Stereotypes

Today, we bring you Sammy Harkham, award-winning cartoonist and editor, and author of BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN (Pantheon), a graphic novel fourteen years in the making. Set primarily in Los Angeles in 1971, BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN is the story of twenty‑seven‑year‑old Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who works for an exploitation film production company. Harkham brings us into the underbelly of Los Angeles in an epic story of artistic ambition, heartbreak and what it means to be human.

Shelved asked Harkham about tips for authentic world-building and graphic novels that challenge our ideas of what the medium is. Read on to learn more!

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Laura Keefe & Nicholas Latimer Discuss “The Debut Author and Modern Marketing” with New York Book Forum

In this panel with New York Book Forum, Laura Keefe, Senior Director of Marketing, Knopf Doubleday and Nicholas Latimer, VP and Senior Director of Publicity, Knopf Doubleday talk pitch letters, review outlets, Booktok and the decades-old question: can you can judge a book by its cover? Hint: Sort of. This panel takes on the complex world of modern book marketing and how to navigate it with first-time authors, as well as the creative strategies opening up new channels for reaching readers.

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Roy Finamore, Clarkson Potter Editor and Award-Winning Author, Passes Away at 70

Roy Finamore, photo courtesy of his sister, Marie Finamore.

Roy Finamore, a James Beard award-winning author and notable editor of cookbooks and lifestyle books, died on May 6 after a brief illness. He was 70.

He was born and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. After attending SUC Brockport and majoring in theater, he left to start a small theater company in Vermont with friends, later moving to New York City. Gradually the freelance editorial work he undertook to support his acting career made way for full-time publishing when he was hired as an editor of lifestyle and design books by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 1983, where his authors included Tim Street-Porter, Chris Madden, and Abbie Zabar. He joined Clarkson Potter in 1989 as a senior editor and went on to publish award-winning and bestselling cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Ina Garten, Diana Kennedy, Jean Anderson, Anne Willan, Lee Bailey, Carole Walter, Tom Colicchio, Bobby Flay, and Gale Gand.

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RSVP for a New York Book Forum Event Featuring Knopf’s Victoria Wilson in Conversation with Jane Friedman

On Wednesday, May 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM ET, join New York Book Forum in-person for a major cultural evening — A Story of Evolution: On Writing, Editing, Publishing, and Breaking the Glass of Expectations featuring Jane Friedman and Victoria Wilson. JANE FRIEDMAN transformed a major company, and started a new venture that revolutionized digital publishing. Vicky Wilson, VP & Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf is an acclaimed editor and publisher, and has written a major cultural biography, with the concluding volume now in progress.

We’ll hear these leading voices in American publishing discuss their experience, expertise, adventures, and vision of what lies ahead in books, business, and life. Light refreshments will be served. Limited space is available! RSVP is required.

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Penguin Random House Partners with Save the Children for Multi-Year Global Book Donation Effort

In the face of educational disruptions following the pandemic and the mounting book banning crisis, Penguin Random House has announced an unprecedented book donation to long-standing partner Save the Children to help spread the joy of reading to kids everywhere. The historic donation is the largest global book donation in Save the Children’s history and will provide more than one million books to children across the globe over three years. Continue reading →

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Introducing CRIMINAL TYPES, a Crime Fiction Podcast from Knopf Doubleday & Penguin Random House Media

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and Penguin Random House Media are proud to announce the launch of season 1 of a brand-new crime fiction podcast Criminal Types. The first episode of the podcast dropped May 9 with special guest John Grisham. Criminal Types is recorded in the PRH Podcast Studio and celebrates all the incredible talent at Penguin Random House through deep-dive conversations with bestselling thriller writers and up-and-coming stars alike.

Over the past year Gabrielle Brooks, VP Executive Publicity Director, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group & Special Projects and Abby Endler, Senior Publicist, Knopf Doubleday have been working with Pat Stango, Senior Director, Media Production & Development, PRH to produce Criminal Types. The podcast is hosted by Abby and creator of the largest crime fiction dedicated Instagram account: Crime by the Book. Criminal Types was announced on Crime by the Book yesterday — take a look at this post to see some of the amazing early reactions already rolling in! Continue reading →

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There’s a Book for That: Jewish American Heritage Month

In May we honor centuries of Jewish contributions to American culture and society for Jewish American Heritage Month. CNN reported in March that “Antisemitic incidents in the US are at the highest level recorded since the 1970s” based on an audit from the Anti-Defamation League. With education and celebration of Jewish-American voices, culture and history in mind, we present the following new and acclaimed books for adults: Continue reading →

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Callisto Media to Join Leading Independent Publisher Sourcebooks

Deal Brings Together Two Premier Data-Driven Organizations

The publishing assets of Callisto Media, a leading nonfiction publisher, have been sold in a Sourcebooks-led, Penguin Random House-funded acquisition. As one of the country’s fastest-growing independent publishers with 61% growth in the first quarter of 2023, Sourcebooks’ expertise in demand-driven publishing makes it the ideal organization to oversee the Callisto publishing program and create the most impactful, data-centric, profitable future for consumer-led books.

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WOW! 4 PRH Pulitzer Prize Winners: Gage, Hsu, Samuels and Olorunnipa, Diaz

The unmatched Penguin Random House Pulitzer Prize tradition and achievement continues. William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, John Steinbeck, Ron Chernow, Anne Applebaum, Colson Whitehead (twice). These are just a few of the Penguin Random House authors whose work has been honored with a Pulitzer, the most prestigious annual prize in American letters. Joining our previous 133 winners are these 2023 recipients, in four of the six Letters categories, announced May 8 at Columbia University, by Administrator Marjorie Miller.

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