For her new “Starvation Video games” ebook, the prequel “The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes,” the debut at Books of Surprise and different shops will largely be on-line.

“In regular occasions, we’d have had an enormous get together,” Glassman says. “And we’d have tried to get an editor or another person she works with to come back, or tried to have an actor give a dramatic studying. However given the fact, we’ve to take care of what we’re coping with.”

“Hopefully, we are going to promote a superb quantity,” he added, saying he deliberate a digital get together and studying, however not involving Collins.

Collins’ new novel, which comes out subsequent week, is essentially the most high-profile launch for the reason that coronavirus shut down a lot of the nation’s bookstores in March. In contrast to films or performs, books can nonetheless be loved as their creators supposed them, however promotion now’s largely restricted to what the Web can supply or to the initiatives of booksellers who at greatest can solely have a handful of consumers of their shops at a given time.

Publishers have been suspending books to the summer time and past, and “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” might sound a threat when the world appears a little bit too near the horrors of Collins’ fictional Panem. However Scholastic govt vp Ellie Berger says that after “quite a lot of dialogue about timing,” they stayed with Tuesday’s scheduled launch date.