At Farrar, Straus, longtime senior vice president, director of marketing and publicity Jeff Seroy “has decided to relinquish” those responsibilities as of July 1, publisher Mitzi Angel writes, after almost 25 years. He will become svp, director of special projects, still “handling a select group of key publicity campaigns, working closely with some of FSG’s…
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Angela Man has joined Orbit as associate publicist. She was previously at Diversion Books. Cassandra Fernandez has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as marketing associate. She was previously marketing assistant at Random House Children’s. Sarah Homer was promoted to assistant editor at Harper Children’s. Imprints Skyhorse will launch a crime fiction imprint, Arcade CrimeWise, starting…
Winter Is Here: What the Writers Guild Fight Means for Authors and Agents
More than a week ago the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ordered its members to fire their agents, and there’s no end in sight to writers’ objections to film and TV packaging fees and big agencies’ production affiliates. On April 16, the WGA escalated the situation by filing a civil lawsuit against the Association of…
Briefs: Prince Memoir Coming In October, and More
Stephen Brayda will join the Harper One Group on April 24 as art director for Harper Via, Amistad and Harper Espanol, reporting to Judith Curr. He was previously with Riverhead. Director of events at Copperfield’s Books Barbara Lane debuts a column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Chapters and Verse, where she will “discuss what I…
Reese’s Book Club Explores A Subscription Box
Content platform Hello Sunshine, home of Reese Witherspoon’s wildly successful book club, is considering a subscription box offering. Tech Crunch was the first to notice that a survey sent to Hello Sunshine’s email list April 16 included several box-focused questions. The 43-question survey, appropriately incentivized with a contest to win a book box, asks readers…
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Michelle Brower has been named a partner at Aevitas Creative Management. Dean Smith will join Duke University Press as director starting July 1. He has been director of Cornell University Press since 2015 (and for the record is no relation to the late legendary UNC basketball coach of the same name). Smith succeeds Steve Cohn, who is retiring…