Meg Lemke

Steph Opitz Tapped to Head Consortium Most recently director of bookstore partnerships for Bookshop.org, Opitz has been named director of publishing services at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, effective April 6. She succeeds Julie S...

yay @stephopitz.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

PSA to check out @publisherswkly.bsky.social call-for-info page regularly - we have calls up now for example to nominate fave bookstore, or to tell us about comics series that are picking up audience in later volumes (and why) - www.publishersweekly.com/pw/calls-for...

PSA to check out @publisherswkly.bsky.social call-for-info page regularly - we have calls up now for example to nominate fave bookstore, or to tell us about comics series that are picking up audience in later volumes (and why) - www.publishersweekly.com/pw/calls-for...

Hey writers, if you are interested in applying just hit me up in m]my DMs. They are open!

At ComicsPRO 2026, the Comics Industry Proves Its Resilience Despite the chaos caused by Diamond Comic Distributors’ bankruptcy, sales to comics shops hit record highs last year thanks to an influx of new readers, enticing book publishers to find new ways to re...

great and info-packed #ComicsPRO wrap up in @publisherswkly.bsky.social from @comixace.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

It's true, we're publishing "manga for grown-ups" under our new Takumigraphics imprint--Publishers Weekly has the scoop! https://ow.ly/21KU50YkwxB

WI2026: Indies Hone Collaborative ‘Superpowers’ The Independent Publishers Caucus held a summit, and the American Booksellers Association led a presentation on big questions for bookselling in 2026 as Winter Institute got underway in Pittsburgh.

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extremely too funny to be annoyed

(somehow he found and connected a bluetooth speaker and hid with it, chortling)

wait until she's a teenager, they said, and apparently they meant that I'd wake up and she'd have baked an entire chocolate cake from scratch

so I guess it did stick

Manga for Grownups Publishers are increasingly appealing to adult readers.

For Publishers Weekly, I got to write about one of my favorite comics trends: manga for older readers. Like me!
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Image of the tops of books in a herringbone pattern. They are in a rainbow gradient. The center of the image has a green textbox with the words "Resources for fighting book censorship, library challenges, and more."

A massive thread of resources, history, information, and material to help you not only fight and understand book censorship but protect the incredible democratic institutions of public libraries and public education.

This is updated regularly!

"really over it with the sledding"

maybe it won't sno

do you know we have a newsletter with these funny little pictures of us and books we liked

you can get PW Picks here and enjoy of my reviews colleagues as if they were in odd lighting but also their very great book recs weekly here (and obviously you are already subscribing to The Fanatic right) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/email-sub...

do you know we have a newsletter with these funny little pictures of us and books we liked

tx for this!

PRH Inks Distribution Deal With Drawn & Quarterly Under the agreement, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will sell and distribute D&Q’s frontlist and backlist exclusively across all sales channels, including the Canadian market, beginning Septe...

distro news

"Hi mommy! Here is a present. I actually cut it with my own teeth!"

"Oh, okkkk. Let's put it on the fridge."

MILESTONES Y'ALL

proud to watch my teenager grow into the responsibility of figuring out such skills as belatedly noticing she was accidentally dropped from an admin email list

Green and blue graphic with a gold border that reads 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant Awardees, Steve Baxi Chad Nevett, Samantha Puc, Emmy Waldman

I'm so excited to announce the recipients of this year's Comics Criticism Mini Grant. Congrats to Chad Nevett, Steve Baxi, Emmy Waldman, and Samantha Puc for their amazing work in comics criticism this year!

@chadnevett.bsky.social
@stevebaxi.bsky.social
@emmywaldman.bsky.social
@theverbalthing.com

Los Angeles Times Book Prizes - Honorees and Awards Ceremony The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes celebrate the best books of the last year at our awards ceremony.

noice www.latimes.com/events/festi...

"MOMMY! Listen to my PROBLEMS and stop looking at that" [that = Rick Geary's 1990's WUTHERING HEIGHTS comic]

no reason

PS I had Molly

KATE we are totally talking about this over here, DM me

Also can we make a headline "how come Samantha always gets to be first, everyone knows that she's the worst"

me: "yes"