Personnel News and Announcements Jason Pinter is moving from Warner after two and a half years there, to become an editor at Three Rivers Press, starting next week. Terra Chalberg is moving to Simon Spotlight Entertainment, where she will be an associate editor. She started at Scribner in 2002 and then worked at Simon & […]
Archives for February 2006
Lunch for Monday, February 27
Penguin Nudges Up For Year Penguin joins the ranks of publishing industry companies delighted to show a gain of one or two percentage points for the year, with sales of 804 million pounds ($1.399 billion) up two percent from last year’s soft year of 786 million pounds, and up one percent on a currency-adjusted “underlying” […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, February 27
FICTION Debut Laureen Vonnegut’s first novel, OASIS, set in Morocco, a fever dream of a novel spun from the threads of murder, survival, conspiracy and rebirth that centers around a Russian beauty, her dead Moroccan husband, and an endless stretch of desert punctuated by a tiny oasis of bizarre and untrustworthy characters, to Amy Scheibe […]
Lunch for Friday, February 24
McCabe Will Leave Reed; Muller Takes Oversight of BEA Chris McCabe, the caretaker show manager who took over running BEA in June 2004, is leaving Reed Exhibitions “to pursue new opportunities” after a rather disinterested stretch running the book convention. Reed is assigning corporate oversight of the show to a more publishing-focused executive, adding BEA […]
Lunch for Thursday, February 23
Riverhead Says No to Frey Page Six reports that Riverhead has decided not to go forward with their announced two-book deal with James Frey, confirmed by an unnamed “rep” for Frey. No official word from the publisher has been issued, nor have we heard any bulletins from Frey, his former agency Brillstein-Grey, or publisher of […]
Lunch for Wednesday, February 22
Hills to Retire, and More Personnel News Longtime editor Fred Hills will retire from his job at the Free Press in mid-April after a career of over 40 years in publishing (including 26 years at Simon & Schuster). His authors over the years have included Vladimir Nabokov (Look at the Harlequins), Raymond Carver (his first […]