Comments on: Is there a schedule of forthcoming books?

Question: Is there a schedule of forthcoming books?

mattr — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:03:45 -0800

I have a number of favourite authors - who I would buy books from - on spec - so I'm keen to know when their next work is coming out. Is there a site that tracks 'forthcoming' books...so I can plan ahead?

By: librarina

librarina — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:13:06 -0800

Harper Collins, at least, lets you subscribe to individual authors' lists, so you get email when they have books coming out or events like tours or interviews on tv or radio. Theirs is called AuthorTracker and you just search for your author and then click on "AuthorTracker" on the author's bio page. I bet other publishers have similar things, but I've never checked.
It might be harder with smaller publishers.

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:13:24 -0800

I sometimes look up authors I like on Amazon.com's advanced book search and select the "after the year ____" option to see if anything new is forthcoming. I don't know of a place where one can track things, though.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:15:52 -0800

I don't remember how you do it, but you can have Amazon notify you whenever author X has a new book out. I get these updates for a couple authors I'm interested in.

By: jjg

jjg — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:26:43 -0800

Previously.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:54:46 -0800

The authors' web pages.

If they're SF/F books, then Locus's forthcoming books page.