Copyright Authors and publishers win $7.8 million in a global piracy lawsuit. But it’s unlikely they will ever see a

Rachel Petty has joined Blair Partnership as an agent heading up the children’s and young adult list.

J.L. Stermer, previously of New Leaf Literary, started Next Level Lit in late 2021.

While editors and agents have discouraged writers from submitting COVID-inspired fiction, pandemic- and disease-related tropes remain popular on Kindle.

2021 has laid the perfect groundwork for this year’s predictions

Can the organization stay on track with plans for change?

In the final two weeks of the year, adult fiction print sales in the US surged, led by new releases from John Grisham, Mitch Albom, and Nicholas Sparks.

Well-known journalist Michael Wolff has written snarkily about Random House passing on a new Norman Mailer book.

Given that Spotify is moving more into spoken-word content, including podcasts and audiobooks, the following case is worth watching.

The key to winning BookTok content: authenticity.

To achieve writing success—especially commercial success—requires an inner drive that pushes you forward no matter what feedback you receive.

Growth in the children’s market continues, especially for series and licensed characters. BookTok emerges as an organic social media boost for backlist YA.

The brightest sparks of the year.

Print book sales are up 10 percent over 2020 according to NPD BookScan, although that figure is expected to soften somewhat by end of year.

News Movie tie-ins negatively affected by COVID. Hollywood loves building on existing IP, and publishers benefit in the form of

We’ve rounded up every agent and publisher announcement mentioned in Hot Sheet during 2021 and categorized them for browsing.

Get Lifted Film Co., led by John Legend, Mike Jackson, and Ty Stiklorius, will partner with still quite new publisher Zando to create an imprint that “will leverage their significant reach to identify, develop, and promote new voices and storytellers.”

Heligo Books will publish business books starting in 2022, with titles already acquired from Jewel Burks Solomon, Rupal Patel, and Simon Lancaster

An imprint of Penguin Random House, Berkley has an open reading period now through Jan. 9, 2022.

Grim Oak Press, a small press, has partnered with Patrick Rothfuss to create a new imprint, Underthing Press. The first project will be Digger: The Complete Collection by Ursula Vernon.

In the first issue of the year, I’ll offer my take on what’s ahead for publishing in 2022. Do you have your own predictions?

Stories, which all appeared in Links of Interest, received the most clicks by a wide margin. What you couldn’t resist reading more about in 2021

According to NPD BookScan, backlist has continued to drive print sales this year comprising over two-thirds of all unit sales.

Mobile storytelling platform Radish, owned by the Korean Kakao Entertainment Corp., has acquired the English-language Asian fantasy-fiction platform Wuxiaworld.

Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House, launched a multimedia subscription service called RTL+, meant to compete with Netflix in Germany.