Holt is adding two new editors to their team. Aaron Schlechter will join the house on October 4 as a senior editor. He has been at Overlook Press. The same week, Sarah Bowlin will start there as editor, focused on fiction but also acquiring nonfiction. She has been at Riverhead, assisting two senior editors and acquiring literary fiction. Both will report to president and publisher Steve Rubin. Dawn Davis has been promoted to publisher of Amistad and also join’s HarperCollin’s Ecco imprint as an executive editor, reporting to Daniel Halpern. For Ecco she will acquire general interest fiction, memoir, and […]
Archives for September 2010
Lunch Weekly for Monday, September 13
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Author of the memoir A Slippery Year, Melanie Gideon’s debut novel […]
People, Etc.
Seth Fishman is joining The Gernert Company as a literary agent. He was most recently at Sterling Lord Literistic, where he worked since 2005. At Profile Books in the UK, Daniel Crewe has been promoted to publisher. The Guardian has an interesting interview with Random UK ceo Gail Rebuck who is careful and measured in her responses–rightfully so, since the paper strains to misconstrue the piece with the headline “How Gail Rebuck turned Tony Blair’s book into a bestseller.” (Rebuck deflects one line of questioning by replying, “We’re not going to go there. You can ask away and I’ll wander […]
Scholastic Buys Math Specialist
Scholastic announced that it has acquired Math Solutions, which provides K-12 teachers with professional development services for math instruction, for undisclosed terms. They will run it as a unit of Scholastic Education, with with Christine Willig continuing to serve as ceo and president of Math Solutions and founder (as well as math educator and author) Marilyn Burns serving as a math education consultant to Scholastic.
Fall Previews: Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirier and Daily Beast Picks
The LAT pairs many of the expected titles with mentions for Janice Shapiro’s debut collection Bummer and Other Stories and the Library of America’s two-volume set of Lynd Ward’s work, Six Novels in Woodcuts.LAT The Philadelphia Inquirer focuses on 20 titles, split between fiction and nonfiction, plus a selection of local authors.Inquirer The Daily Beast goes month-by-month for their list of 20 books “you can’t miss this fall.”Beast
eNews: Auel in eBook; Random Children’s Picks App Partner; Google Editions Announced–for Japan
Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear books will be released for the first time as ebooks on October 6 as Crown prepares for the release of the sixth and final volume, THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, March 29, 2011.USAT Random House Children’s has partnered with Seattle-based digital media agency Smashing Ideas to develop book-based children’s apps “that marry story, design, and technology.” The agency co-created the Alice for iPad app. Google, which was supposed to launch Editions in Japan in mid-2010, has actually announced the service for a 2011 debut there. Strategic partner development manager at Google Japan Yoichi […]