In Limbo

More than 120 publishers are awaiting a decision on the fate of their inventory held by Diamond Comic Distributors, marking the latest development in their post-bankruptcy legal drama. In this week’s magazine, we spotlight the growing contingent of YA authors making the leap into adult fiction. The American Booksellers Association has named a new education director and reorganized the department following the departures of two high-level staffers. Several states have introduced legislation that would make it cheaper for libraries to license e-books, amid complaints that publisher costs are straining budgets, per the New York Times. A film adaptation of Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios, with Lili Reinhart attached to star, reports Deadline. New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte has vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have empowered book banners in public schools, reports NHPR. On Substack, Lincoln Michel offers a final, comprehensive rebuttal to the claims that literary fiction is dead. Reactor reconsiders Ursula K. Le Guin’s overlooked YA trilogy, The Annals of the Western Shore. And novelist, poet, and memoirist Paulette Jiles has died at 82.