Pre-publication Resources
LJ PrePub Alert
Publishers Weekly On-Sale Calendars
Indie Next lists, from independent booksellers
Edelweiss, a service providing publishers' catalogs (and here's a nice introduction to using Edelweiss)
Set up a Feedly account and then add sites to it whenever you find helpful book news in certain publications: New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Guardian, The Wrap, Flavorwire, LitReactor, etc. (Here's a short intro to using Feedly; and here's a "how-to" for setting up your book/title awareness system.)
Of course, the big review magazines: Booklist, Kirkus, Library Journal (For a beautiful overview of those resources, visit Katie Midgley's "Tools for Selecting Nonfiction for Public Library Collections.")
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