#Macmillian Publishers

[freddycartr]

you know what really bothers me is that macmillian audio chose two white narrators to narrate nova and adrian in the renegade trilogy, two people of color. both rebecca soler and dan bittner are white. while i get that marissa meyer has probably a personal connection with soler (and soler does an amazing job with every book that she reads), but it’s really not that hard to pick two people of color narrators. like anne yatco, has narrated anime characters and is an actress or rebecca wang who is a voice actors. both are filipino-american voice actors. and then for adrian, brandon rubin who is jesper fahey’s voice in six of crows, and does an amazing job. or they could have had multiple narrators for the lunar chronicles including natalie naudus as cinder, ewan chung as kai, kamran r. khan for wolf, or gabrielle union for winter.

[danielleurbansblog]

Meet This Author: Gilly MacMillian

Q: How did you get started writing thrillers?  I didn’t get started until I was in my forties when my youngest child had just started school. I was considering how best to get back into the workplace after time off raising the kids and thought I might try to write a book before I did. I gave myself six months to do it and I’m still pinching myself that I succeeded. Thrillers were an easy choice.…

[mariacallous]

My question to Meta is, why bother to roll out the cannons to blast this tome? The effort to neutralize the book seems quaint and futile. For one thing, NDAs do not cancel out the first amendment. In a statement, the publisher, Macmillian, says, “We are appalled by Meta’s tactics to silence our author through the use of a non-disparagement clause in a severance agreement.” The book is still on sale and the author will continue the disparagement, only now as the victim of a trillion-dollar company’s attempt to silence her.

The whole effort is totally unnecessary. This is a company that has had every nasty charge thrown against it for almost a decade and just keeps getting bigger and more profitable. Its CEO now trolls critics by wearing triumphalist clothing and going on Joe Rogan to celebrate masculinity. The campaign against Careless People seems defensive and out of step. One of Meta’s big complaints is that Wynn-Williams did not undergo a prepublication rundown of the text with the company. Please pause for a moment to savor the irony. Meta, the company that recently announced an end to fact-checking in posts seen by potentially millions of people, is griping that an author didn’t fact-check with them?

There might have been a time in history—like a decade ago—when matters of veracity were determined by an empirically driven point/counterpoint process, and the best facts won. That time is over—in large part due to Facebook itself, which has been a major force in promoting false narratives that seem to stick, even after they are thoroughly debunked. When I wrote my own book about Facebook, I spent thousands of dollars on a fact-checking team, and I submitted a long document to the company asking for verification on all I had found. But those who live in the world where facts matter are a diminishing minority.

Now that I think of it, Meta’s actions against Wynn-Williams might be less about defending its reputation than a need to punish a defector who violated her promise to keep its secrets. The campaign seems at one with the desire of the White House’s current occupant to pursue vindication at all costs. As opposed as they may seem, Mark Zuckerberg and Sarah Wynn-Williams both understand something fundamental about our time: Careless people rule the world.

Meta Tries to Bury a Tell-All Book

[titles-for-tangents]

So there I was checking to see if there was a summary was up yet for "Apostles of Mercy" when I spotted this little rather telling detail

There's no summary up on B&N yet as of this posting but it's up an Amazon, and both have three quotes of incredible praise. Let's zoom in on this one in particular by the incredible, indelible Jamie Loftis:

"Lindsay Ellis shows us that humans are just as much the other as their alien counterparts with incredible detail, humor, and empathy, and never better than in this un-put-downable conclusion to the Noumena saga. Cora Sabino has officially joined the pantheon of first contact heroines." - Jamie Loftis, New York Times bestselling author of Raw Dog

CONCLUSION?!!?!

I knew Noumena was originally published under a three-book deal with Macmillian Press, and that it would hopefully go to a full five-book series depending on the success of the first three. What then, pray tell, on earth happened to the other two?

[creator-of-calm-queer-chaos]

CERULEAN SEA HAS A SEQUEL

I REPEAT

THE HOUSE IN THE CERULEAN SEA BY TJ KLUNE HAS A SEQUEL

It’s called ‘Somewhere Beyond the Sea’ and it’s Arthur’s perspective, life, and the events following Cerulean Sea. Here is the summary from Macmillian (Tor Book’s distributor):

“A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.

He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.”

Its publishing date is September 10th of this year, and you can preorder it from most everywhere you buy books!!

[eaglesnick]

“‘Private education is not fair. Those who provide it know it. Those who pay for it know it. Those who have to sacrifice in order to purchase it know it. And those who receive it know it, or should. And if their education ends without it dawning on them, then that education has been wasted.”  - Alan Bennett.

One year ago almost to the day, Sir Kier Starmer, our new prime minister, promised to end the “snobbery” that surrounds academic vs vocational education. Speaking in Gillingham Kent, he said the ‘class ceiling' needed to be broken and he vowed to fight the existing reality that social background - and by default, economic background  - determines a child’s future opportunities.

This pledge was part of his fifth mission statement where he promised to “break down the barriers of opportunity at every stage for every child.”  More importantly he emphasised:

“This mission is my core purpose and my personal cause: to fight, at every stage, for every child, the pernicious idea that background equals destiny, that your circumstances, who you are, where you come from, who you know, might shape your life more than your talent, effort and enterprise.

“No, breaking that link, that’s what Labour is for. I have always felt that. It runs deep for me.” (Keir Starmer:05/07/23)

Starmer is absolutely right when he says a child’s socio-economic background determines the opportunities open to them. Money buys privilege. One reason private schools are so popular among better off parents, especially the very rich, is that class sizes are so much smaller than in the state sector, and as is well known, “smaller classes lead to higher quality education”. From early years of prep schooling right through to the elite universities such as Oxford and Cambridge, money buys academic success. It is no accident that 60% of top university student intake is private school educated, while just 25% is from state schools: the rest being overseas students.

But it is not only the quality of education than counts when it comes to future opportunities – social networking also plays a major role. Sending your child to a private school not only increases their chances of academic success, it also builds up “social capital".

This interesting headline says it all:

Getting the job: it's not just who you know, its how you know them" (nature: 23/1022)

If you know them from public school, especially boarding school, then you are recognised as "one of us" and you reap the advantages.

The dominance of the privately educated throughout Britain’s "upper echelons of power" was recognised by the conservative Prime Minister John Major, who was shocked at the difference a private education made to opportunities for success.

Starmer’s ambition to end the disadvantage of being a state educated pupil by raising educational standards in state schools is admirable but it is not enough. In a report into who gets the top jobs published in 2013 the researchers came to this depressing conclusion.

.”Our work discounts the notion that higher education levels the playing field between students of differing socio-economic backgrounds. Beyond academic achievement, our analysis suggests there are other reasons why wealthier and more advantaged students, and particularly those who attend a private school, are significantly more likely to secure a top job."  ( Macmillian, Tyler and Vignoles:“Who gets the Top Jobs? The role of family background and networks in recent graduates’ access to high status professions.” ; IOE December 2013)

Nothing has changed since 2013. In 2019 Statistica carried this headline:

“The UK's top jobs are dominated by the privately educated…our report shows, the most influential people across sport, politics, the media, film and TV, are five times as likely to have attended a fee-paying school.”  (Statistica: 25/06/19)

And in 2023 we had this report:

“Private school alumni…gain a disproportionate share, relative to their small numbers, of highly influential jobs in British public life and in business. (UCL: Private schools and British Society: 29/11/23)

Given Starmer’s “mission” to break the ‘class ceiling” is at the ‘core’ of his being, then he has gotten off to a very poor start in trying to remedy this gross social inequality. Originally he promised to strip private schools of their charity status.

“Keir Starmer vows to scrap charitable status for private schools” (LBC: 28/11/22)

Less than a year later, like so many of Starmer’s pledges, this plan was abandoned.

According to The Conversation (27/06/22) charitable status for private schools is worth “£3 billion a year”. It is certainly true that Rugby School is “raking in millions a year thanks to London rental property”. (Coventry Live: 06/04/2025).  Eton College, Britain’s most famous private school and the provider of 20 British prime ministers, has been described as having:

“…huge investments in securities and property - £568mn at August 2022 – chipping in handy amounts each year, tax-free thanks to its charitable status”. (Financial Times: 29/09/23)

Under Starmer the privilege provided by private education is to continue. Money buys smaller class sizes, better academic attainment and a build up of social capital through networking with others from wealthy families. Hiding behind the bogus claim of charitable status these schools for the privileged save millions of pounds in tax relief while the state sector is starved of sufficient funding. Rather than doing yet another U-turn, Starmer should have been planning to  close  private schools altogether.

If he is willing to surrender so easily to privilege and wealth on his “core” beliefs then he has no right to be Prime Minister, and his claims that his administration is all about "change" is just hollow rhetoric.

[ren3gade]

i'm only 3/4 of the way through

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, a memoir about Meta/Facebook by Sarah Wynn-Williams that Facebook failed to suppress which was published on March 11, 2025 by Macmillian and is available through Rakuten Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Google Play, Amazon, and Bookshop.org

but listen.

we already knew Facebook was a fucked up company, and yes some of this has been reported, but this really reinforces the leadership at Facebook have committed crimes against humanity and they are, by philosophy and action and consequence, terrorists.

enabling terrorism is inherently terroristic ok

i think what

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, a memoir about Meta/Facebook by Sarah Wynn-Williams that Facebook failed to suppress which was published on March 11, 2025 by Macmillian and is available through Rakuten Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Google Play, Amazon, and Bookshop.org

does that's important is it gives a first-hand, personal account of what it's like to look one of those ghouls in the eye and listen to the most batshit misanthropic shit come out of their mouths... (and then proceed to do nothing substantive about it, because you really, really want to work there and job hunting is hard)

also, none will be spared.

no demographic is safe from Meta. there are no exceptions. in the lens of Meta's nihilistic greed, every human is a target, no matter who they are

every human being on this planet has been, will be, or would be a victim of this company if Meta had the opportunity.

you aren't a number, man. it's worse than that: you're meat. you're something to be chewed up and spat out, with zero regard for where whatever's left ends up or who it impacts

anyway, if you haven't read

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, a memoir about Meta/Facebook by Sarah Wynn-Williams that Facebook failed to suppress which was published on March 11, 2025 by Macmillian and is available through Rakuten Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Google Play, Amazon, and Bookshop.org

give it a whirl i got a copy at the library

[the-worlds-between-pages]

Don't Let The Forest In by: CG Drews

Publisher: Macmillian Publication Date: October 29 2024 Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own. This is another DNF. I couldn’t get through this book not matter how hard I tried. I put it down, picked it up. Put it down, picked it up. You get the picture. We follow two boys who have been best friends for a long time. They’re at a boarding school, one is an artist…

[bookcoversonly]

Title: The Winter Soldier | Author: Daniel Mason | Publisher: Pan Macmillian (2019)

[knoxvillerose-blog]

Sun Myung Moon - Novelty Vintage Book

One of my more 'novelty' #booksforsale Anyone remember the #Moonies in airports in the 70's?

[booksteacupandreviews]

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood - cozy urban fantasy

Rewitched is a heartwarming, cozy urban fantasy with a rich magical world and engaging characters. Rewitched SynopsisReviewYou might enjoy Rewitched if you like,Book Links Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood Publication Date : September 19, 2024 Publisher : Pan Macmillian Read Date : September 21, 2024 Genre : Cozy Fantasy Pages : 416 Source : Many thanks to publisher for review…

[latteandbookz]

[New Post] ARC Review: The Grumpiest Elf by Jerica MacMillan

Title: The Grumpiest Elf Author: Jerica MacMillian Page count: 318 Published: November 21st, 2023 Publisher: Grey’s Promo Genre: Contemporary Christmas Romance Received: From the publisher in exchange for an honest review Rating: 3/5 The last thing I need is to be trapped in a snowstorm with a pretty girl who can barely stand me … while I’m wearing an elf costume. The elf thing started…

[ebbartels]

Interview with Nina MacLaughlin on The Believer Logger!

Interview with Nina MacLaughlin on The Believer Logger!

For the full interview, see it on The Believer. Published on February 5, 2020.

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I cannot tell you how excited I am to have an interview with Nina MacLaughlin up on The Believer Logger today. Nina has been a role model and inspiration to me since I first met her in spring 2015, right before the debut of her memoir, Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter. It was such a pleasure to talk to Nina…

[evilrry]

today is bad but one good thing happened and im gonna yell about it in the tags

[booksofdelight]

Pan Macmillian’s 50 Best Books of All Time 

Pan Macmillian’s 50 Best Books of All Time!

There are many best book lists online and we love looking at some of them. That gives us an idea of the best books and how a certain group or institution thinks. Today, we will be looking at Pan Macmillian’s 50 best books of all time list. Keep reading to see which books made their list.  What is Pan Macmillian?  You might be wondering what Pan Macmillian is and what hey do. Pan Macmillian is…

[gideonpyrrha]

“youve seen that body before” is sooooo funny such a FUNNY thing to say carl engle-laird editor for tordotcom publishing imprint of macmillian publishing youre sooo funny. you think youre so funny to say this about a book series that literally has a recurring character called “the body”. youre sooooo funny