Adam Boretz

Meet the 35 honorees of the 10th anniversary edition of Star Watch, our annual program dedicated to recognizing and honoring rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.

PW Star Watch honors rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.

Here are the latest books that focus on children’s social and behavioral development.

In ‘Cribsheet,’ her follow up to ‘Expecting Better,’ the economist confronts common parenting wisdom with hard data.

The answer to today’s parenting challenges, new books suggest, might be as simple as old-fashioned mindfulness and self-compassion.

BookExpo America, held May 27–29, was once again a busy period for audiobook publishers, as the industry announced the best audiobooks of the year at its 20th annual Audie Awards Gala.

Mandela: An Audio History won the award for Audiobook of the Year, and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book took home the prize for Distinguished Achievement in Production Thursday night at the 20th annual Audie Awards Gala in New York City.

Romance titles ruled at Smashwords in 2014, grabbing 16 of 25 spots on the annual list of bestselling titles published on the company’s platform.

Crystal’s 'Still Foolin’ ‘Em' won the award for Audiobook of the Year and Pete Seeger’s 'Pete Seeger: The Storm King' took home the prize for Distinguished Achievement in Production.

The audiobook industry continued to grow in 2013, and for listeners that meant one thing: the chance to hear a host of outstanding titles, read by the most talented narrators in the business.

In November, Daniel Donatelli self-published The Great Anti-American Novel via H.H.B. Publishing. PW caught up with Donatelli to chat about everything from self-publishing and corporate prisons to marketing and individual liberty

Roger Croft self-published the thriller Operation Saladin—the second installment in his Michael Vaux series—through CreateSpace.

Through writing, I came to understand my experiences in a way that could help other veterans -- past, present, and future -- deal with the aftermath of war. I felt what I had learned was important enough to share with others and was determined to make it available, publisher or not.

Upon leaving full-time legal work, Elton B. Klibanoff returned to his passion, history, and wrote the book he had long envisioned—For the Survival of Liberty: Great Presidential Decisions, which he self-published through Dog Ear Publishing in November of last year.

Chef and restaurateur Sondra Bernstein didn’t plan on self-publishing her second cookbook, Plats du Jour: The girl & the fig’s Journey Through the Seasons in Wine Country, but, in the end, found that the DIY approach gave her complete control over the project—and this, she says, was a great relief.

Unlike many authors who turn to self-publishing, Ivester didn’t receive a host of rejections from publishing houses. He didn’t send his manuscript out to agents. In fact, he never looked for representation of any kind. He simply didn’t have the time.

Converting any book to audio is an exacting endeavor. When the book is written by a celebrated author known for his expansive, experimental style (think: footnotes, endnotes, digressions, jargon, acronyms) the process is that much more challenging. And when the book is an unfinished, fragmentary, posthumously published novel, the task looks almost impossible.

Scott Brick has narrated more than 500 books. Along the way, he's been feted (with 40 Earphones Awards, PW's own Listen Up Awards, and an Audie Award) and challenged (Scandinavian pronunciation). He shares his enthusiasm for the industry and lets us in on his preparation process (horror movies help).

The English artist takes us into his whimsical trompe d’oeil three-dimensional sidewalk chalk drawings in The Pavement Chalk Artist.

Payne, former deputy literary editor of the Daily Telegraph, finds the Kardashian sisters' classical counterparts in Fame.