Former svp and executive director of publicity and public relations at the Bantam Dell Publishing Group Barb Burg has launched a new company, barb burg ink, offering publicity, public relations, media training, media placement, publishing strategy and brand management services.
Endeavor agents Kirby Kim and Rebecca Oliver and subrights manager Laura Bonner will join the merged WME Entertainment, according to the Observer.
Australian author Christos Tsiolkas won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Award for best book for THE SLAP, “about middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behavior.” Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif won the best first book award for A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES.
Taxi driver Abbas Taj, was convicted of conspiracy to recklessly damage property and endanger life in connection with the bombing of the home/office of Gibson Square publisher Martin Rynja in London prior to his planned publication of THE JEWEL OF MEDINA.