AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoPublishing & Awards: Julia Alvarez will receive the Center for Fiction’s 2026 Lifetime of Excellence in Fiction Award, set for Dec. 8 in New York. Book Retail & Community: Northshire Bookstore marks 50 years with a two-location anniversary celebration in Manchester and Saratoga Springs. Crime & Books/Screen: A new Netflix true-crime series, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare, revisits the 2022 killings of four students and the case against Bryan Kohberger. Legal/Publishing Tech: An exclusive report says AI use concerns are complicating rights for the debut novel Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body, with publishers warning that AI-aided text can muddy copyright claims. Thriller/Adaptations: The Forever Home #2 gets exclusive Oni Press covers and pages, continuing Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä’s post-catastrophe sci-fi. Author News: Texas bestselling novelist Benjamin Alire Sáenz has died at 71, with tributes pouring in ahead of his upcoming novel When the World Was Happy. Local Reading Picks: A Tucson roundup spotlights history, mystery, and fiction through local titles.
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