﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:39:40 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>Byliner Publishes SEVEN SECONDS: Memories of the JFK Assassination, the Tragedy that Changed America by Holly Millea</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-seven-seconds--memories-of-the-jfk-assassination--the-tragedy-that-changed-america,c9488972</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1464145</guid><description><![CDATA[Exclusive Interviews with Nora Ephron, Jimmy Carter, Robert Redford, Jeff Bridges, James Patterson, Lauren Bacall, Gay Talese, Judy Collins, Charlie Rose, and many others
October 29, 2013—San Francisco— Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?

For years, journalist Holly Millea has concluded interviews with that question. In her decades-long career as a profile writer for magazines, Millea has interviewed dozens of prominent artists, entertainers, and leaders who have shared vivid memories of what they were doing on November 22, 1963, when, in seven seconds, a series of gunshots]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes Maile Meloy's DEVOTION: A Rat Story</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-maile-meloy-s-devotion--a-rat-story,c9482192</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1453704</guid><description><![CDATA[In the spirit of the season, the celebrated novelist offers up a creepy-crawly tale

“Don’t let the easy accessibility of Maile Meloy’s writing fool you: she’s capable of witchcraft.” —Time
October 16, 2013—San Francisco—Today Byliner publishes Devotion: A Rat Story (http://byliner.com/originals/devotion-a-rat-story?AFID=290787) ($1.99), by Maile Meloy. Hailed by The New Yorker as “a wise and astonishing conjurer of convincing realities,” Meloy is one of our country’s most celebrated fiction writers. In her scalp-prickling Byliner Original Devotion: A Rat Story, she shows how easily an]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes COCAINE COWGIRL: The Outrageous Life and Mysterious Death of Griselda Blanco, the Godmother of Medellín</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-cocaine-cowgirl--the-outrageous-life-and-mysterious-death-of-griselda-blanco--the-,c9471689</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1439030</guid><description><![CDATA[By Jennie Erin Smith
September 26, 2013—San Francisco—Today Byliner publishes Cocaine Cowgirl  (https://www.byliner.com/originals/cocaine-cowgirl?AFID=290787)($1.99), by celebrated journalist Jennie Erin Smith, a never before told story about the murder of the notorious “Godmother” of the U.S.-Colombia drug trade.

Her real name was Griselda Blanco, but she was known by many other, more evocative names: Black Widow, La Madrina, Queenpin. For years, she ventured where no woman had gone before, dominating the cocaine trade between South America and the United States, rivaled only by her]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner and Fast Company Announce the Publication of DESIGN CRAZY: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-and-fast-company-announce-the-publication-of-design-crazy--good-looks--hot-tempers--and-true,c9460355</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1417175</guid><description><![CDATA[A New Oral History Takes Readers Behind the Curtain in Cupertino
September 3, 2013—New York and San Francisco—Design Crazy (https://www.byliner.com/originals/design-crazy?AFID=290787), a Fast Company/Byliner Original e-book that publishes today, is unlike anything you have read about Apple. Award-winning business writer Max Chafkin led a team of Fast Company reporters that spent months interviewing more than fifty former Apple execs and insiders, many of whom had never spoken publicly about their work. The result is a compelling and deeply revealing oral history of how design evolved at the]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 14:52:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes Simon Winchester’s THE MAN WITH THE ELECTRIFIED BRAIN: ADVENTURES IN MADNESS</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-simon-winchester-s-the-man-with-the-electrified-brain--adventures-in-madness,c9448269</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1395698</guid><description><![CDATA[For the first time, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman
tells the story of how he nearly lost his mind—and his life
August 6, 2013—San Francisco—Today Byliner publishes The Man with the Electrified Brain: Adventures in Madness (https://www.byliner.com/originals/the-man-with-the-electrified-brain?AFID=290787) ($1.99), a shockingly frank new memoir by Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, which reveals for the first time how he nearly lost his mind.

Simon Winchester has never shied away from big, even enormous, topics—as evidenced by his]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New York Times and Byliner Announce the Upcoming Publication of TO HAVE AND UPHOLD: The Supreme Court and the Battle for Same-Sex Marriage</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/the-new-york-times-and-byliner-announce-the-upcoming-publication-of-to-have-and-uphold--the-supreme-,c9434744</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1370678</guid><description><![CDATA[By The Times’s Supreme Court correspondent, Adam Liptak.
Immediately available for preorder, on sale July 9.
June 27, 2013—New York and San Francisco— The U.S. Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage made for a historic day. But the struggle for the rights of gay men and lesbians to marry is a tense, complex story that has been unfolding over many years—a story told in great sweep and detail by Adam Liptak in The New York Times / Byliner Original To Have and Uphold (https://www.byliner.com/originals/to-have-and-uphold). The e-book is available for preorder today and will be published]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:27:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes THREE DAYS IN GETTYSBURG: An Intimate Tale of Lost Love and Divided Hearts at the Battle That Defined America by Brian Mockenhaupt</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-three-days-in-gettysburg--an-intimate-tale-of-lost-love-and-divided-hearts-at-the-,c9427064</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1356658</guid><description><![CDATA[Three Days in Gettysburg affirms that history is made vivid not through its events--however epic--but through the individuals consigned by fate and circumstance to confront and endure them. The result is a compelling, beautifully researched book that is as enlightening as it is moving.  — Elizabeth Kaye, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller Lifeboat No. 8
June 12, 2013—San Francisco— Marking this summer’s 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, Byliner today publishes Three Days in Gettysburg (http://www.byliner.com/originals/three-days-in-gettysburg) ($1.99), an unforgettable]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Esquire and Byliner Publish SPORTS: The Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time, Volume 3</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/esquire-and-byliner-publish-sports--the-greatest-esquire-stories-of-all-time--volume-3,c9423564</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1350306</guid><description><![CDATA[June 4, 2013—New York and San Francisco— The greatest sports stories transcend sports. They are about risk and failure and craft, and the joy and wonder that come from watching a human being reach for grace. They are about us. Published today, Sports: The Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time, Volume 3 (http://www.byliner.com/originals/sports) ($3.99)—an e-book collaboration between Esquire and the digital publisher Byliner—is the third volume of Esquire’s greatest stories, being published in honor of the magazine’s 80th anniversary in October.

Following Great Men, which featured]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes Margaret Atwood’s THE HEART GOES LAST, Episode Four in Her Acclaimed Positron Series</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-margaret-atwood-s-the-heart-goes-last--episode-four-in-her-acclaimed-positron-seri,c9418515</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1339990</guid><description><![CDATA[“[Atwood’s] wry humour (especially when it comes to chickens) is as formidable as ever, and as disquieting. How she manages to make so dark a world both comic and terrifying is truly remarkable, a measure of her unerring skill.”

—The Globe and Mail
May 23, 2013—San Francisco—The internationally bestselling diva of dystopias is back with The Heart Goes Last (https://byliner.com/originals/the-heart-goes-last) ($2.99), the latest installment of Positron, the dangerously funny Byliner e-serial about life in a Big Brother America of the near future, in which the lawful are locked up and the]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BYLINER PUBLISHES DEATH OF AN AMERICAN SNIPER: The Extraordinary Life and Tragic End of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, the Country’s Most Lethal Soldier</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-death-of-an-american-sniper--the-extraordinary-life-and-tragic-end-of-navy-seal-ch,c9415496</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1334201</guid><description><![CDATA[By Anthony Swofford, Bestselling Author of Jarhead
and Former Marine Sniper
May 16, 2013—San Francisco—Released today by Byliner, Death of an American Sniper (https://www.byliner.com/originals/death-of-an-american-sniper) ($2.99), by bestselling Jarhead author Anthony Swofford, tells the extraordinary story of the life and shocking death of legendary Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. It is also the first in-depth account of the troubled life of Kyle’s alleged murderer, Eddie Ray Routh. A former Marine who, like Kyle himself, suffered the devastating effects of PTSD, Routh sadly managed to succeed where]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>BYLINER PUBLISHES THE FIRST E-BOOK EDITION OF SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW BY LEGENDARY AUTHOR EDUARDO GALEANO</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-the-first-e-book-edition-of-soccer-in-sun-and-shadow-by-legendary-author-eduardo-g,c9414096</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1330999</guid><description><![CDATA[“Is there any book more evocative of ‘the beautiful game’ than Eduardo Galeano’s slim but buoyant paean to the players, goals, joys, and heartbreaks of a lifetime of soccer fandom?”  —Vanity Fair
May 14, 2013—San Francisco— One of the great sports books of our time, Soccer in Sun and Shadow (https://www.byliner.com/originals/soccer-in-sun-and-shadow) ($9.99), by internationally celebrated novelist and journalist Eduardo Galeano and translated by Mark Fried, is now available for the first time as an e-book. Brimming with wit and charm and the kind of insight only a true fan could bring, it “]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes 99 STORIES OF GOD</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-99-stories-of-god,c9406148</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1314062</guid><description><![CDATA[By Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist Joy Williams

“I would follow the trail of Joy Williams’s words—always beautiful, compelling, and so wise—anywhere they led.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, author of the bestselling Choke, Fight Club, and Phoenix
April 25, 2013—San Francisco—Today Byliner is publishing Joy Williams’s new fiction e-short, 99 Stories of God  (https://www.byliner.com/originals/99-stories-of-god) ($1.99), the first new book in a decade from the acclaimed author of State of Grace, Escapes, Taking Care, and Breaking and Entering. Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Esquire and Byliner Publish WAR</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/esquire-and-byliner-publish-war,c9393173</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1287942</guid><description><![CDATA[The Eighty Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time, Volume 2
March 28, 2013—New York and San Francisco— Men have always fought. And like few other magazines, Esquire has always chronicled war. Published today, War: The Eighty Greatest Esquire Stories of All Time, Volume 2 (http://www.byliner.com/originals/war), is an e-book collaboration between the new digital publisher Byliner and Esquire.

This second volume of Esquire’s eightieth-anniversary anthology series collects eight of the magazine’s finest war stories. There is John Sack’s 33,000-word New Journalism opus “M,” which follows in]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:19:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes THE CASTAWAY: A Novella</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-the-castaway--a-novella,c9388114</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1278863</guid><description><![CDATA[By the Critically Acclaimed Frank Huyler

“Huyler’s writing is quiet, precise, spellbinding from beginning to end … Easily holds with the best contemporary fiction.” —The New York Times
March 20, 2013—San Francisco— Published today by digital publisher Byliner, The Castaway (http://byliner.com/originals/the-castaway) ($1.99), by Frank Huyler, is a seafaring fever dream in the grand tradition of Joseph Conrad, Paul Bowles, and Robert Stone, with an uncanny dash of the supernatural. Long after you’ve finished this enthralling novella, it will continue to haunt.

A watchman aboard a tanker]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:31:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New York Times and Byliner Publish ASPERGER LOVE: Searching for Romance When You’re Not Wired to Connect</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/the-new-york-times-and-byliner-publish-asperger-love--searching-for-romance-when-you-re-not-wired-to,c9384358</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1270156</guid><description><![CDATA[By Pulitzer Prize–winning Times correspondent Amy Harmon

“A wonderfully intimate look into the difficulties that people on the autism spectrum have forming romantic relationships. Required reading for couples, parents, teachers, and counselors.”

—Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and The Autistic Brain
March 12, 2013—New York and San Francisco— Jack didn’t really like kissing. To him it was just mashing your face against someone else’s. Kirsten didn’t like being caressed. Like all couples, they argued, but in their case, lacking an inborn intuition about what goes on]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:57:26 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes PHOENIX</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-phoenix,c9370950</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1244010</guid><description><![CDATA[By Chuck Palahniuk,
the bestselling author of Fight Club and Choke
February 15, 2013—San Francisco—No author can shock readers quite like bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Choke, Damned), whose meditations on the darkest depths of the American ego have been known to induce fainting fits in his audiences. Palahniuk channels both Stephen King and John Cheever in the singularly sinister and hilarious e-short Phoenix (http://www.byliner.com/chuck-palahniuk), released today by the new digital publisher Byliner and available in all digital storefronts for 99 cents. Straight from the]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New York Times and Byliner Publish HERE’S THE DEAL: How Washington Can Solve the Deficit and Spur Growth</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/the-new-york-times-and-byliner-publish-here-s-the-deal--how-washington-can-solve-the-deficit-and-spu,c9366939</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1238514</guid><description><![CDATA[By Pulitzer Prize Winner David Leonhardt
February 11, 2013—San Francisco—On the eve of President Obama’s 2013 State of the Union address, The New York Times and Byliner are publishing Here’s the Deal (http://www.byliner.com/originals/heres-the-deal), a clearheaded exploration of what’s wrong and right with the American economy and where it can go from here, from The Times’s Washington bureau chief, David Leonhardt. Here’s the Deal is available for $1.99 from all the major digital bookstores, exclusively in e-book form.

“All of the manufactured budget crisis of the past few years—the]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Byliner Publishes NATE IN VENICE: A New Byliner Original by Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Prize winner and Author of Empire Falls</title><link>http://news.cision.com/byliner/r/byliner-publishes-nate-in-venice--a-new-byliner-original-by-richard-russo--the-pulitzer-prize-winner,c9362079</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision1226097</guid><description><![CDATA[“Russo is one of the best novelists around.” —The New York Times
January 29, 2013—San Francisco— In this warm, bighearted novella, Nate in Venice (http://byliner.com/richard-russo) ($2.99), just released by digital publisher Byliner, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo (Nobody’s   Fool, Straight Man, Empire Falls) transports his characters from the working-class East Coast of his novels to one of Europe’s most romantic cities. In classic Russo fashion, however, he packs along their foibles and frailties. His latest foray into the messy beauty of the human heart, Nate in Venice is written]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>