Janson-Smith Will Leave Transworld for Agency World Longtime Transworld publisher since 1981 Patrick Janson-Smith has had a great run, credited with founding the Black Swan imprint and bringing the house such authors as Bill Bryson, John Irving, Andy McNab, Terry Pratchett, and Carl Hiaasen, but now he will leave at the end of September to […]
Archives for August 2005
Lunch for Tuesday, August 30
News Briefs 1. Hyperion executive editor since 1998 Mary Ellen O’Neill will join Collins as vp, publisher of Wellness and Lifestyle. Reporting to O’Neill are executive editors Kathy Huck and Toni Sciarra and editor Greg Chaput. The line publishes approximately 75 titles annually. 2. Per yesterday’s story, this morning Random House estimates that they sold […]
Lunch for Monday, August 29
Eldest Moves Past Printing Error In Big Release Last Tuesday’s big 1.3 million-copy laydown of Christopher Paolini’s ELDEST was made more complicated by a printing gaffe in which a portion of copies were missing a signature, inexplicably replaced by a signature from competitor Cornelia Funke’s forthcoming INKSPELL instead. Tomorrow morning Random House will announce their […]
Lunch for Wednesday, August 24
Distribution News With O’Reilly Media set to make their distribution switch to the Ingram Book Group next month, Ingram has announced the signing of four additional clients: the UK’s MQ Publications and Michael O’Mara Books, Michael Viner’s new company Phoenix Books and Audio, and Indian publisher Roli Books. Meanwhile, CDS has announced their first new […]
Lunch for Tuesday, August 23
Eldest’s Turn Today is the release of summer’s second big fantasy novel, Christopher Paolini’s ELDEST, and a number of the nation’s papers take note and offer short author interviews. Originally set for a 1 million copy release, the initial run has been increased to 1.3 million and the book tops the Amazon list this morning. […]
Lunch for Monday, August 22
Keller’s Letter Home NYT executive editor pens a letter to the editor of the newspaper’s Book Review responding to Richard Posner’s lengthy essay from late July about media bias: “Richard A. Posner has a famously prodigious and provocative mind. I always pick up a Posner essay expecting to be challenged by an original argument. So […]