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Fall Children’s Books
Our comprehensive listing of the season’s books for young readers
begins with an interview with our cover artist, Mark Teague.
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Branching Out
Authors reach new audiences by crossing categories and jumping
genres.
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Writing for Her Inner Child
In her two forthcoming books, Lambda Literary Award winner
Sara Farizan ventures into horror and graphic novels.
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2 Spiegel & Grau Do It Again
Two high-profile veterans of corporate publishing enjoy the indie life.
3 Print Sales Fall in Early July
Unit sales of print books fell 8.8% in the week ended July 9 from the
similar week last year, with sales down nearly 14% in adult nonfiction.
4 ABA Grows, Addresses Challenges
At its annual meeting and town hall, which were held virtually July
14, the American Booksellers Association reported that membership
was up and responded to booksellers’ concerns.
5 Bookstore Spotlight
We talk with DJ Johnson, the owner of Baldwin & Co. in New Orleans.
6 Deals
HarperCollins wins a British crime thriller debut, Gallery takes on a
memoir by a former Scientologist, and more.
7 From the Archives
As HarperCollins union members prepare for a one-day strike on
July 20, we look back at our coverage of a 1977 walkout at the
publisher, which was then known as Harper & Row.
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Spiegel & Grau Do It Again
Two high-profile veterans of corporate publishing enjoy the indie life
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t’s been a busy first two years for Spiegel & Grau. N
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Last year, cofounders Julie Grau and Cindy Spiegel C
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relaunched their imprint—which was shuttered in 2019
as part of a reorganization at Penguin Random House—
as an independent press. Now, the house has a full-time
staff of 12 after making a handful of hires earlier this month,
and has brought aboard Nicole Dewey (who will also con-
tinue to run her PR firm, Dewey Media Group) as publishing
director.
S&G also has new books out by Jane McGonigal, a best-
selling author, video game designer, and futurist, and New
York Times journalist Katie Hafner. It recently acquired the
memoir A Heart That Works, by comedian Rob Delaney, due
out this November, and it has titles under contract from
Melody Beattie, ZZ Packer, and Grammy Award–winning
Cindy Spiegel (l.) and Julie Grau, cofounders of the former Random House
country singer Shelby Lynne, among others. And its strategy
imprint Spiegel & Grau—and the new indie press of the same name.
to “support authors across multiple media formats” includes
partnerships on creative content outside of the pages of move to another corporate house, but we saw it as an oppor-
books, such as reporter Justine van der Leun’s Believe Her tunity to start something new,” Grau said. “We knew that our
podcast, which S&G coproduces with Lemonada Media, partnership was durable, that we had a similar vision for
which won the Gracie Award for Best Investigative Podcast what we wanted to start, and we thought that there was an
in 2022. irresistible and exciting new challenge in starting a new
Independent publishing was a new frontier for the pub- company as an independent publisher.”
lisher’s cofounders, after they had successfully navigated A combination of their experience in the book business,
corporate publishing for decades. Grau and Spiegel were confidence in their own partnership, and reservations about
two of the four founding editors, in 1994, of Riverhead a return to the ever-consolidating corporate publishing land-
Books at Penguin, later becoming coeditorial directors scape ultimately convinced the two that starting an indepen-
and publishers. There, they acquired books by the likes of dent business was the right move.
Junot Díaz, Nick Hornby, Khaled Hosseini, Chang-Rae “We’ve been doing this for a long time, and we’ve been
Lee, and Gary Shteyngart. At the end of 2005, they left working together for a long time,” Spiegel said, “and we felt
Riverhead for Random House’s Doubleday division, where that we were at a point in our career where we actually had
they launched the first Spiegel & Grau imprint; in 2009, our own vision for what we thought publishing could look
the imprint was brought over to the Random House group like. It was a moment to sit and think about what works and
and survived the merger of Penguin and Random House what doesn’t work. As publishing becomes bigger, it relies
in 2013—but not the 2019 Crown and Random House more, necessarily, on category-driven publishing. Since we
consolidation. don’t do that kind of publishing, it’s harder for us to fit into
“It was a surprise for us, because we had just finished an the system. Why go back into a situation where we felt it
amazingly successful year,” Grau said, adding that some of would become more of a struggle, as the houses got bigger
the books they published that year remained on the bestseller and bigger, to put the attention that was warranted on the
list well into 2022. That surprise, she said, gave the duo a kinds of books that we do?”
chance to try something different. The absence of a corporate publisher and the safety net
“We had opportunities to reconstitute the imprint and (however bureaucratic) it came with has not yet proven a
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The Weekly Scorecard
News
Print Sales Fell 8.8% in
Early July
problem for the fledgling publisher. Nor has the pan-
demic. “We raised money quietly,” Spiegel said. “The Unit sales of print books fell 8.8% in the week ended July 9,
2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that
publishing world is so small, and there’s a lot of chat-
report to NPD BookScan. Adult fi ction remained a bright
ter about everybody, and we didn’t get distracted by
spot, with sales up 4.9%, as Colleen Hoover placed fi ve titles
that. We also didn’t have to travel and spend money
among the top 10 on the fi ction list, led by It Ends with Us,
to go to meet investors or go to L.A.—it was all done which sold more than 60,000 copies. Where the Crawdads
on Zoom. I think it was actually a good time to start a Sing by Delia Owens was #1 in the category, selling more
than 80,000 copies, as the fi lm based on the novel hits
company.”
theaters. The top new release was Lore Olympus, Vol. 2 by
While raising capital and presenting to prospective
Rach el Smythe, which sold more than 38,000 copies, putting
investors was all new for Grau and Spiegel, the duo more
it in fi fth place on the category ch art. Adult nonfi ction
than managed—perhaps precisely because their expe- sales fell 13.8% in the week. The bestselling new release in
rience in the business spoke for itself. “We were over- the category was The Wild Unknown Alch emy Deck and
Guidebook by Kim Krans, which was #26 on the category
subscribed,” Spiegel said. “We actually had to turn down
list, selling about 3,500 copies. The #1 title remained James
money.”
Clear’s Atomic Habits, which sold more than 16,000 copies.
Running an independent publisher, Grau and Spiegel
Last year at this time, How I Saved the World by Jesse
agreed, has given them more flexibility to allocate their Watters was the top title, selling almost 34,000 copies,
resources exactly as they wish to, without interference. followed by Trejo by Danny Trejo, which sold more than
13,000 copies. The small young adult nonfi ction category
“Even at a boutique imprint” at a major publisher, Grau
had a 4.3% increase in the week, though that seems to have
said, “your belief in the book could only go so far.”
more to do with the misch aracterization of adult coloring
Books remain the center of Grau and Spiegel’s busi-
books in the YA category. Stranger Things: The Offi cial
ness and are distributed by Ingram’s Two Rivers. But in Coloring Book rode the success of the Netfl ix series to sell
addition to S&G’s partnership with Lemonada, it signed nearly 9,000 copies in its second week.
a first-look deal with Amazon Studios that gives the
e-tail giant’s production arm “ready access” to S&G
TOTAL SALES OF PRINT BOOKS
(in thousands)
titles for adaptation.
JULY 10, JULY 9, CHGE CHGE
The success of the first book published by the revived
2021 2022 WEEK YTD
imprint, Fox and I by Catherine Raven, has given Grau
Total 13,175 12,013 -8.8% -6.6%
and Spiegel a confidence boost. “Fox and I is a good
example of a book that would have been considered very UNIT SALES OF PRINT BOOKS BY CATEGORY (in thousands)
quiet in our old world—a book about the friendship JULY 10, JULY 9, CHGE CHGE
2021 2022 WEEK YTD
between a lone woman in Montana and a wild fox,” Spie-
Adult Nonfi ction 4,861 4,189 -13.8% -10.4%
gel said. “We made it a New York Times bestseller, and
Adult Fiction 3,485 3,657 4.9% 4.6%
we sold the film rights, and it’s won awards. That felt like
Juvenile Nonfi ction 1,163 958 -17.6% -10.1%
proof of concept to us.”
Juvenile Fiction 2,771 2,362 -14.8% -7.7%
Not that there aren’t challenges or risks in being on
Young Adult Fiction 642 606 -5.7% -2.8%
your own. Among the biggest is stability: as a newly
Young Adult Nonfi ction 64 67 4.3% -3.2%
independent publisher, Spiegel & Grau doesn’t yet have
a backlist in place to, as Grau put it, “buffer you from the
UNIT SALES OF PRINT BOOKS BY FORMAT
(in th\sands)
vicissitudes of frontlist publishing.” But that’s where
JULY 10, JULY 9, CHGE CHGE
confidence in each other comes into play. 2021 2022 WEEK YTD
“At Riverhead, and at Spiegel & Grau, we built these Hardcover 3,424 2,848 -16.8% -10.6%
really amazing backlists,” Grau said. “We had the con- Trade Paperback 7,976 7,653 -4.0% -3.4%
fidence, having done that together twice before—we Mass Market Paperback 747 559 -25.2% -20.5%
both have books from those eras, and before, that are Board Books 647 576 -11.0% -5.4%
still pillars for our former companies’ backlists. That’s
part of what we’re wagering here: that we know what
SOURCE: NPD BOOKSCAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. NPD’S U.S. CONSUMER MARKET PANEL COV-
it takes. That’s how we’re building our company, too.” ERS APPROXIMATELY 80% OF THE PRINT BOOK MARKET AND CONTINUES TO GROW.
—John Maher
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ABA Grows, Addresses Challenges
T
he American Booksellers Association held its
annual meeting and town hall virtually July 14.
Board president Christine Onorati of Word Book-
store in Brooklyn and Jersey City, N.J., began the meeting
by noting the board’s accomplishments this past year.
Besides making a $3 million investment in IndieCom-
merce, it established a social responsibility component
of the organization’s investment policies and a vendor
review policy. Its conflict of interest policy was updated,
and a more transparent system has been established for
CEO oversight. “We have worked hard to be as transpar-
ent and accessible as possible, as part of our commitment
to change,” Onorati said.
The ABA board and CEO Allison Hill (top r.) conducted a virtual annual meeting and town
hall on July 14.
Board v-p and secretary Kelly Estep, co-owner of Car-
michael’s Bookstore and Carmichael’s Kids in Louisville, Ky., ing on them to its membership in coming weeks in Booksell-
reported that as of July 1, ABA membership was up 6% over ing This Week. She said at least one publisher that had
a year ago: there are 2,023 bookstore members operating in extended buying terms to indies during the pandemic has
2,506 locations, and 207 provisional members. There were seen significant growth in the sector as a result. “We’ve been
215 ABA member store openings in 2021 and 41 closings, sharing that with other publishers as kind of a case study
plus 85 additional stores have opened since January. and a best practice,” she reported, explaining that publish-
In her CEO report, Allison Hill recounted the ABA’s accom- ers are most concerned with supply chain disruptions and
plishments over the past year. Those included fighting back book discoverability.
against escalating book challenges, supporting antitrust leg- In response to a question by Janet Geddis of the Avid Book-
islation, and promoting DEI efforts within the organization. shop in Athens, Ga., about whether the ABA was “collectively
Concluding her report, Hill relayed that after talking to overcorrecting” in terms of limiting discussions of prices and
several booksellers at the spring regionals, she heard that costs, given indies’ small share off the publishing pie, Hill
“year two of the pandemic proved harder than year one in said that ABA’s attorneys assured her that the organization
many ways”—in part because “it’s hard to keep going back was doing the right thing. “It’s not about our size; it’s about
to a well that’s dry. Many of you have told us you feel depleted. the potential for collusion in the marketplace.”
I know the news the past few months may have added weight During the year, several ABA board members resigned for
to your already heavy shoulders, and I’d like to tell you that various reasons. As the town hall wound down, several cur-
it’s going to get easier, but we’re not quite there yet. It will rent board members testified to how transformative being
get easier, though.” on the ABA board has been for them and suggested that book-
At the town hall that followed, industry consolidation was sellers might nominate themselves or others. “It’s hard, but
one topic of discussion. “It’s something we’re all thinking it’s really worth it,” said Angela Maria Spring, owner of Duende
about, we’re all concerned about,” said Danny Caine of the District Books, which has stores in Washington, D.C., and
Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kans., after Matt Norcross Albuquerque, N.Mex. “I certainly didn’t know that this was
of McLean and Eakin Bookstore in Petoskey, Mich., raised going to be the experience I’d have walking into it, and I’m
the subject. Caine added that the board was taking a “global going into my fifth year now. I have grown so much as a person,
look at where the industry is and where the industry is going, as a bookseller, as a colleague—it has truly been a life chang-
and how best to position ourselves.” Hill said the issue of ing experience, and I don’t say that lightly.”
consolidation in the industry goes “hand in hand with our Melanie Knight of Books Inc. in the San Francisco Bay Area
antitrust work and something that we’re concerned about.” added, “It’s hard work, but I will say that out of all the things
The ABA is in the process of completing its annual busi- I do, I feel like this is one of the most important. It means a
ness meetings with publishers, Hill noted, and will be report- lot to me to have my voice heard.” —Claire Kirch
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