Stacy Horowitz has joined Random House as partnerships manager. She was most recently with Hay House. Kristine Enderle has been promoted to editorial director of Magination Press, the children’s book imprint of The American Psychological Association. Sarah Fell has been promoted to senior editor and will start acquiring and developing books. Colson Whitehead was named…
Simon & Schuster Rejects Legal Threat from Trump’s Attorney
Simon & Schuster is the second book publisher to join the pointlessly threatened with prior restraint by President Trump club. On Monday Trump’s attorney Charles Harder, writing on behalf of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc, sent a letter to Gallery Books about Omarosa Manigault-Newman’s book UNHINGED, which was released on Tuesday. He claimed the…
People, Etc.
Annette Pollert-Morgan joins Bloomsbury Children’s as editorial director. She was editorial director at Sourcebooks Fire. Distribution Hopkins Fulfillment Services, a distributor for university presses and non-profit institutions, will begin distributing Wesleyan University Press in January 2019. Ingram Publisher Services will distribute science fiction and fantasy publisher Grim Oak Press. Bookselling Tara Goldberg-DeLeo and Kristy Bodnar…
Celebrities, Clubs, Picks
The NYT writes about another celebrity publishing side project: “X Artists’ Books, a small press that [Keanu] Reeves launched in Los Angeles with the visual artist Alexandra Grant, has been producing aggressively esoteric titles…. They don’t accept submissions and haven’t worked with agents, preferring instead to unearth what Grant calls ‘secret books’ — knotty concepts…
Penguin Random House Offers Early Retirement Buyout
Penguin Random House announced internally on Wednesday an early retirement buyout offer for veteran employees, described in a post from chief human resources officer Frank Steinert: “We are pleased to announce that we are making available a Voluntary Separation Offering (VSO) for a set of our long-tenured employees.” They suggest it “might be helpful” for…
Quarto Approves Taking On Still More Debt
At a special meeting, Quarto Group shareholders approved an amendment to the company by-laws so that they can take on still more debt (which stood at $64 million as of their last annual report). Just over 10 million shares, or a little over half of the shares outstanding, voted in favor of the proposal. Almost…