• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register
Publishers Lunch logo Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
Login Sign Up
  • Personnel
  • AI
  • Compensation
  • Unions
  • Book Bans
  • New Releases
  • Earnings
  • The Trial
  • Archives
Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

March 3, 2010By Michael Cader

People, Etc.

March 3, 2010By Michael Cader

At Atlantic Books, Margaret Stead will join the company in late April as editorial director. She was previously editorial director of The Harvill Press. Current editorial director Caroline Knight has resigned, by will continue to work for the company after relocating to Kent.

Barnes & Noble announced the winners of the 2009 Discover Great New Writers awards: Playwright Victor Lodato‘s debut novel MATHILDA SAVITCH (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Dave Cullen‘s COLUMBINE (Twelve).

Daniyal Mueenuddin won The Story Prize for his collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

Chicago’s citywide reading program is still going strong, naming Colm Tobin‘s BROOKLYN as their 18th selection.

Beacon Press is switching their US distribution to Random House Publisher Services as of July 1. Houghton Mifflin, Beacon’s distributor for the past ten years, will accept returns until September 30.

Sam Tanenhaus is relinquishing his duties as editor of the NYT’s Week In Review, though he still is not content with running the Book Review, continuing to write for that section and the paper’s Arts & Leisure section. Editor Bill Keller in his memo refers to TBR as “the best (and not merely because it’s the last) book review in America.”
Observer

Author John Edgar Wideman is publishing his newest work BRIEFS, STORIRES FOR THE PALM OF THE MIND, through Lulu.com as of March 14. It’s called a collection of “microstories” that “unveils an original voice and structure, with storytellers who are eavesdroppers, diarists and haiku historians.” Portions of the collection have already been selected for the  O. Henry Prize Stories 2010 and Best African American Fiction 2010 anthologies.

Wideman says in the release “Lulu seems to represent a very live possibility as the publishing industry mutates. I like the idea of being in charge. I have more control over what happens to my book. And I have more control over whom I reach.”

Also: “I have a very personal distaste for the blockbuster syndrome. The blockbuster syndrome is a feature of our social landscape that has gotten out of hand. Unless you become a blockbuster, your book disappears quickly. It becomes not only publish or perish, but sell or perish.”

At the same time, Lulu says he is the first in a VIP service that “takes care of most pre- and post-production work, including design, media outreach and marketing.”
Release

In a related vein, we apparently misunderstood Greenleaf’s release on John Gray–Mind Publishing is a separate company publishing his new book.

Filed Under: Awards, Distribution, Free

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login

Forgot Password Quick Pass User Login
Get Full Access
The Publishing Industry’s Essential Daily Read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • The WSJ on Scholastic's Turnaround Efforts July 15, 2025 WSJ
  • Fourth Wing Coloring Book and Calendar to be Published by Andrews McMeel July 15, 2025 Press release
  • Nielsen Successor (And Owner of Nielsen Bookscan) NIQ Files for IPO, Raising Over $1 Billion on a $7.25 Billion Value July 14, 2025 Reuters
  • Sally Kim Discusses Working at Each of the Big 5 July 10, 2025 Open Book Podcast
  • Authors Write An Open Letter to Publishers Against AI July 1, 2025 Lit Hub
  • Pearson and Google Partner on AI Tools June 27, 2025 Press Release
  • Author of "Life as We Knew It," Among 76 Books of "Complex Stories for Young Adults" Susan Beth Pfeffer Dies at 77 June 26, 2025 NYT
  • Why Man Not Read Fiction We Think Should? IDK -- Let's Ask A Tourist Bookstore June 26, 2025 NYT
  • Baseball Writer Scott Miller Dies at 62 June 24, 2025 NY Post
  • Accusations of Plagiarism, AI Use, and Bullying on BookTok June 23, 2025 NBC News
Publishers Marketplace logo

Contact Us

News

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Report News
  • Discuss
  • Classifieds
  • Rights Offerings

Deals

  • Report A Deal

Books

  • Buzz Books

Jobs

  • Job Board
  • Privacy Policy Terms of Use