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Argonaut Books: Why Backing Independent Bookshops Works By Faith Manalili, Virginia Maria Pavone and Emma Regan

Here’s our deep dive on Argonaut books and why supporting indie bookshops is so important!📚✨

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The Most Popular Children's Books, Genres and Trends in 2025 In 2025, we had a fantastic year for children’s literature – with bestselling titles from both well-known authors and exciting new voices.

Here are the post popular children’s book genres & trends in 2025!📚📈

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Not to be Overlooked Not to be Overlooked introduces a variety of wonderful but lesser-known books to assist readers in finding their next great reads. This week’s column covers a review of When We Were Birds by Ayanna Ll...

Don’t miss these great picks from our latest issue!📚⚡️

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The An Post Irish Book Awards 2025 “Exclusively Irish, inclusive in every other sense” the An Post Irish Book Awards is an annual literary prize that was originally launched in 2007 by an association of Irish booksellers; owned by Iris...

The An Post Irish Book Awards is an annual literary prize that was originally launched in 2007 by an association of Irish booksellers, and we’ve rounded up all of this years nominees and winners! Check it out here 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/the-an-...

Reading Beyond Resolutions: How Publishing Can Build Sustainable Reading Habits Every January, social feeds fill with reading challenges, ambitious book stacks appear, and the “this is the year I read more” energy is palpable. Yet while these spikes in attention are predictable, ...

Here’s how Publishing can build sustainable reading habits!👇📚

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Get into the romantic spirit in time for Valentine’s Day next month with our upcoming romance round-up to discover the 2026 romance novels that need to be on your radar 📚💕✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/upcomin...

The marketing campaign around Jeanette McCurdy’s new release ‘Half His Age’ is expertly done! We’ve laid out all the ways it succeeds👇✨

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New Year, New Books: 2026 Publications to Watch Written by Sophie Austen and Bethany Sims

Here are the new releases we’re most excited for in 2026!📚🎊

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Crimes Against Fiction: Tropes We’re Leaving in 2025 Roses are red, but let me be clear! Here's what we’re not bringing into the New Year! Happy New Year and happy new reading habits, Darlings. Today’s article is a cheeky round up of the tropes that ...

We’ve rounded up all the fiction tropes we want to leave behind in 2025 📚📝

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The Publishing Post

🎉 Issue 138 is here! 🎉

Check out our articles tab for all the latest industry news, publishing opportunities, and book recommendations for the year ahead! 📚✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/articles

The Twelve Days of Trendsmas We’ve put together The Twelve Days of Trendsmas to explore different facets of winter publishing. From fiction, aesthetics and gifting behaviours to crafting and community events, these twelve trends ...

This year we’re doing the 12 days of Trendsmas😉📚 Check it out 👇

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Latest Acquisitions & Adaptations Explore the latest acquisitions and adaptations with insights into Intan Paramaditha's and Neha Kale's works. Discover exciting new releases!

Check out the latest acquisitions & adaptations! 📚✨

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Spotlighting Bookish Content Creators Who Document Life as a Publishing Industry Professional Bookish content creation doesn’t start and end with book reviews and recommendations – there are so many other ways that creators can interact with literature and bookish themes.

Our latest Creator Spotlight is all about some of our favourite bookish content creators who document their lives as publishing industry professionals 📚✨

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Independent Publisher Lucent Dreaming Undergoes Restructuring Lucent Dreaming is an independent magazine and publisher based in Wales, primarily publishing surreal and strange works, whether that be full-length novels or collections of poetry.

Lucent Dreaming has announced a restructure amid funding pressures. The Welsh indie publisher says it’s “slowing down, not closing,” and is calling on readers and writers to share what they want from independent publishing.

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Third State Books: Amplifying Asian American and Pacific Islander Voices Third State Books is an independent publishing house founded in 2023, dedicated to bringing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) stories to the forefront.

Read more about Third State Books and the work they do to amplify Asian American & Pacific Islander voices! 📚⚡️

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Christmas Wishlist Hoping to add some standout reads to your Christmas wishlist? These soon-to-arrive books are packed with adventure, heart and a touch of seasonal magic. Here are the titles that deserve a spot on your...

Add these amazing reads to your Christmas wishlist this year!🎄📚❄️

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Sustainable Gifting With eBooks With the festive season rapidly approaching, a lot of us are thinking about what to gift our loved ones this year. If you know a reader (which, if you are reading this, you most likely do!) you may be...

Fancy gifting the reader in your life an eBook this festive season? Check out our latest article all about the best ways to sustainably gift eBooks 📚🎄✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/sustain...

Campaign Spotlight: Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake Known for her successful fantasy trilogy The Atlas Six, it is no surprise that international bestseller Olivie Blake’s new novel Girl Dinner, published by Tor Books, launches with a marketing campaign...

Olivie Blake’s highly anticipated new novel Girl Dinner was recently published and the marketing campaign went down a treat with readers 📚🍽️✨

Check out our latest Campaign Spotlight all about Girl Dinner here: www.thepublishingpost.com/post/campaig...

Four Winter Reads That Will Warm Your Frosty Nights As the days grow shorter and the cold settles in, winter becomes the perfect season to slow down, curl up indoors and sink into stories that reflect the season’s blend of stillness, mystery and warmth...

Here are 4 Winter Reads That Will Warm Your Frosty Nights❄️☃️📚

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Job Opportunities The National Centre for Writing is a charity which hosts writing events and workshops at their venue in Norwich.

Looking for a job in publishing? Here are some of the most recent roles:
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Cosy Queer Winter Reads By Rhys Wright, Juliet Harte, Rosie Day, Gemma Jackson and Shan Heyworth

We’ve rounded up our favourite LGBTQIA+ winter reads perfect for getting cosy this Christmas, check them out in our latest issue! 📚💕✨ www.thepublishingpost.com/post/cosy-qu...

Northern Press Spotlight: Fly On The Wall Press Read with intent and enlightenment with the ‘publisher with a conscience’, Fly On The Wall press.

Check out our Northern Press Spotlight for Fly On The Wall Press📚✨

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Waterstones Books to Look Out For in November and December As we draw closer to the end of the year, why not stay inside, snuggle up and keep warm with a specially selected Waterstones book? This November and December, their round-up has a range of genres inc...

Here are the Waterstones Books to Look Out For in November and December🧑‍🎄🎄📚

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The cosy holiday season is offically here and you can celebrate warming up with a brand new issue of The Publishing Post! This edition brings you festive inspiration, heartwarming winter romances, and latest upcoming publishing events!
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The 2025 National Book Awards Finalists for Young People’s Literature By Florrie Hulbert, Eve Housley, Nia Richards and Grace Briggs-Jones

Read all about the finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards for Young People’s Literature📖✨✨

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Campaign Spotlight: Heap Earth Upon It by Chloe Michelle Howarth Written by Emily Lavin, Chante-Marie Dante, Georgia Rees and Elysia Brown

In our latest Campaign Spotlight we’re diving in to the campaign for Heap Earth Upon It, the second novel by Chloe Michelle Howarth following her debut smash success Sunburn 📚✨

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What’s New This Week: Special Edition (Disability Awareness Month) In recognition of Disability Awareness Month, we’re spotlighting a selection of 2025 book releases that explore disability through powerful fiction, memoir and poetry.

In honour of Disability Awareness Month, we've rounded up some of our favourite 2025 titles that explore disabilities through poetry, memoir, and prose.

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What Does the EIBF AI Charter Mean for Publishing? The European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) has published a charter outlining “guiding principles on the responsible and ethical use of AI [artificial intelligence] in the bookselling...

We’re here to explain all about the EIBF AI charter and what it means for the future of publishing📚🤖

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Here’s our roundup of the latest bookish adaptations & acquisitions! ✨📚

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Northern Books for Fans of The Traitors Missing The Traitors already? From one murder mystery lover to another, we get it. To fill the void of cunning Traitors and desperate Faithfuls, we’ve compiled a list of horror books published by nort...

Missing The Traitors? Try these northern reads to fill that void: Unquiet Guests, Decomposition Book, A Case of Matricide, The Liverpool Mysteries, Lie of the Land, Murder in Tinseltown, Sealed & No Body, No Crime.
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