Peggy Samedi Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Peggy Samedi, and I am a Director of Production at Penguin Random House and President of the New York Book Forum. I work in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The group publishes literary and commercial fiction, nonfiction, and Graphics. I am a [...]
Who Decides What You Can Read? September 22- 28 is national Banned Books Week and the theme this year is “Freed Between the Lines.” It is a week when the entire book community—publishers, writers, libraries, booksellers, and all of us at New York Book Forum—come together to champion the freedom to read what we [...]
Care for the Homeless provides healthcare to people experiencing homelessness across the city. With the start of the new school year, CFH held a back-to-school vaccine event at one of their family healthcare centers. Thanks to generous donations of children’s books from several publishers, including Astra and Penguin Random House, these children [...]
Alison Gervais Tell us a little about yourself. My name is Alison Gervais and I am the Director of Production at Abrams Books. I oversee our Adult and Kids divisions as well as some imprints under the Abrams Comic Arts division. I moved to the Bronx just a few years ago after 25 [...]
Tell us a little about yourself I'm Brigid Black, Senior Production Manager at Simon & Schuster and Vice President of the New York Book Forum. I'm originally from Brooklyn. My family uprooted to southern Maine in 2020 when remote work became a reality. I've been working from home ever since. My non-book related [...]
By Tyler Carey For the past few years, getting together at the end of the year to celebrate as we typically did pre-pandemic was challenging for a lot of folks for obvious reasons. Even last year, as I attempted to put together a small focus group meeting in mid-December for one of the markets we [...]
By Anne McCarthy Once upon a time, in the early aughts, podcasts—a portmanteau created from the words iPod and broadcasts—were a newfangled, mysterious medium developed to download online radio broadcasts to iPods. Today, in 2023, there are over three million podcasts worldwide, according to ListenNotes. However, only 44 percent of those podcasts create more than [...]
By Anne McCarthy The robots are coming . . . they may even be coming for our jobs! Or, at least, that’s what some recent headlines may have people believing about artificial intelligence (AI) software like ChatGPT, or AI proofreading apps, such as Proofcheck. But is it true? “I’m a copywriter. I’m pretty sure artificial [...]
By Anne McCarthy Actress Viola Davis joined EGOT status when she won a Grammy this month for her audiobook performance for her memoir Finding Me, published by HarperCollins in April 2022. The Hollywood powerhouse now has a Grammy, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Tony, and she has her work in the audiobook field to [...]
A Preview of 2023 Programming Looking ahead at the year to come New York Book Forum is excited to announce a slate of events and informational panels for 2023! This year's lineup features a wide range of topics, including modern marketing, self-publishing, romance novels, and more. While we are still finalizing the details and [...]
