Doubleday will release John Grisham's SYCAMORE ROW on October 22. The book is a sequel to his 1989 bestseller A Time To Kill. In the new installment, "Jake Brigance returns to the courtroom in a dramatic showdown as Ford County again confronts its tortured history." Sue Grafton's forthcoming Kinsey Millhone mystery, her 23rd, will be…
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Hannah Wood has moved to Harper as an associate editor. Isaac Fitzgerald will join McSweeney's Publishing as publicity director on May 1. Previously he was managing editor of the literary website The Rumpus. Harper Christian has licensed exclusive rights to sell and distribute print editions of the entire catalog of…
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At Bloomsbury, Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to editor, and Melanie Sankel has gone from associate director of sales for Fairchild Books to director, adoption sales at Bloomsbury Academic. After Skyhorse and Start Publishing's intended joint acquisition of Night Shade Books' assets ignited public controversy over the original terms of sale…
Imprints: Harper UK Adds Digital Romance Line
Following on Avon Impulse and Harper Teen Impulse in the US, Harper UK will launch a digital first women's fiction and romance imprint in May. Harper Impulse, an imprint of their Harper Fiction division, aims "to find, publish and break new talent from debut authors, and import the hottest trends…
Coming Very Soon: Margaret Thatcher's Authorized Biography, And Other Competing Volumes
Allen Lane and Knopf will simultaneously publish the first volume of Margaret Thatcher's authorized biography, written by Charles Moore, "immediately following her funeral." The biography of the former British prime minister, who died Monday at the age of 87, was commissioned in 1997 with the proviso that it would only…
April Bookseller Picks
Kate Atkinson's Life After Life* is Amazon's April spotlight pick, also featured on B&N's books of the month and sharing April Indie Next No. 1 honors. As with Amazon's "featured debut," Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, you can start reading excerpts of both right now in the current…
Newsmaking Authors: Malala Yousafzai to Tell Her Story, and Amanda Knox April Release Remains On Track
Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban after her public advocacy for education for girls, is telling her story in a book that multiple Hachette imprints will publish, starting this fall, we can report exclusively. I AM MALALA will tell in her…
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has promoted evp of corporate affairs Mary Cullinane to the additional new role of chief content officer. She will "spearhead the company's content development strategy for the K-12 education market and consumer audiences" and "develop the next generation of digital solutions while continuing to leverage the company's existing…
Jane Goodall's Book Is Postponed After Newspaper Finds Borrowed, Unattributed Passages
Following a March 19 story in the Washington Post that found primatologist Jane Goodall's planned April 2 release SEEDS OF HOPE "contains at least a dozen passages borrowed without attribution, or footnotes, from a variety of Web sites" (including Wikipedia), publisher Grand Central announced that Goodall "decided to postpone the…
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