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Because its my business! I generally know what is going to be published a year or sometimes years ahead. If you want to know any author just ask.

Fiona wrote: "How about Colleen McCullough?..."

McCullough's Sex, Greed, and Murder: A Carmine Delmonico Novel is coming out 14th December in the US and UK (hardback).

Nothing in English. El Fin del Mundo y un Despiandado Pais de las Maravillas in Japanese and Spanish on 1 August.

When a thread in Feedback was about letting people know when new books came out, I wrote that I could help, but the message was ignored. People think they, or Goodreads can find out in other ways, from the authors' sites mostly.

I buy from the world's biggest distributor of English-language books, almost every bookstore, including Amazon, if not every single one, in the US (and many in other countries) checks them to help plan their business. The distributor lists the books partly so that it can know the potential size of future orders as they get feedback from the stores. Its all forward planning. The actual readers of the books aren't really involved until the book is due to be released in the near future and already has a publisher and distribution set up, which is why author websites are often not helpful.