Happy Tuesday!

Unrelated, but my Denver Nuggets lost a heartbreaker in Game 7, so expect this to be the most somber newsletter yet…

Here's a photo of last year's championship book:

Nothing tastes good anymore, and I keep looking at photos in this book just to feel something 🤣

ANYWAYS…

Check out our new Creators Talk Podcast with Bookish Podcast Host She Well Read - We discuss their new season, seasonality creation & Books 🎙

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Today’s Agenda:

• 📚 Publishing Nooks with Kathleen Schmidt and Brooke Warner

•  📺 Traci and Sara Launch Summer Reading Guides

• 📖 New Book by Brittney Griner

This Week On Bookum:

We have two super-duper & exciting product updates that missed this newsletter by one or two days!

We will share them here next week, I promise.

Until then, make sure to update your app this week (call it Thursday) for a surprise.

Fear not - We will never leave you empty-handed.

I don't know how, but this week we have 2 publishing vets with a combined 47+ years of experience in the space coming onto Bookum!

If you have ANY questions about publishing, please reply to this email or join our Nooks on Thursday at 4PM EST (Brooke Warner) and Friday at 11AM EST (Kathleen Schmidt).

Brooke Warner is publisher of She Writes Press and SparkPress, president of Warner Coaching Inc., and author of Write On, Sisters!, Green-light Your Book, What’s Your Book?, and three books on memoir. 22 Years in Book Publishing.

Kathleen Schmidt 25+ years in the book publishing industry. President of KMSPR, a strategy, marketing, PR, and branding firm focusing on authors, publishers, and publishing adjacent entities.

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This Week in The Book World:

Two creators that we love are dropping their Summer Reading Guides!

Sara Hildreth, creator behind the Fiction Matters blog (guest on our podcast too… Not a big deal 😎), dropped her annual Paperback Summer Guide!

Next.

Traci Thomas, creator of The Stacks Podcast (if you see this "😎" that means she also was on our podcast), is dropping her first-ever Nonfiction Summer Reading Guide this Thursday!

Make sure to support one or both of them and get your copy of their summer guides!

**Please note that fees may apply for their guides**

This Week in Publishing:

The WNBA season kicked off last week with record views, thanks in large part to the arrival of superstars Caitlin Clark & Angel Reese.

This week, we are sharing about their league-mate (just making up phrases at this point) Brittney Griner's new book "Coming Home."

In this autobiography, Brittney Griner tells her story of being detained in Russia for almost 10 months during the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Her story is sure to be captivating!

Add it to your bookshelf on Bookum today and start a sports book club (just don't talk about my Nuggets)!

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Footnotes (Aka other articles we are reading and Bookum content):

Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/books/reese-witherspoon-book-club.html

Penguin Random House Dismisses Two of Its Top Publishers - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/books/booksupdate/knopf-doubleday-lisa-lucas-reagan-arthur.html