Five months after publisher Judy Hottensen departed for Grove Atlantic, Weinstein Books has announced a new management team. For the top position they are hiring from within their co-venture partner Perseus’s team, naming Vanguard Press associate publisher Georgina Levitt as publishing director. Former Simon & Schuster editor Amanda Murray is joining the imprint as editorial director. Harvey Weinstein says in the announcement, “With a new publishing team now in place at Weinstein Books, I foresee exceptional results from the books already slated for publication this spring and beyond, as well as a burst of creative energy for acquisitions that will […]
Archives for February 2012
Bookselling: RJ Julia Seeks New Owner; Indigo & BAM Won’t Stock Amazon Publishing Titles in Stores, Either; And More
Owner Roxanne Coady announced in an email to customers Monday morning that RJ Julia, the Madison, CT-based bookstore she founded and has owned since 1990, is for sale. Coady explained it’s time for the store “to grow in new ways, in the care of new hands that will guide the store to take its proper place in a new world; a changing of the guard in a time of change.” Founder of the Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates Donna Paz Kaufman will handle the sale process. Coady assured customers that the store won’t close and “this is not […]
Obits: Gilman, Malzac, Cohen
Author of the Mrs. Pollifax spy novels Dorothy Gilman, 88, died February 2 in Rye Brook, NY from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. She was named Grandmaster by the Mystery Writers of America in 2010. NYT obit Founder of Liberation Bookstore in Harlem Una Malzac, 88, died January 21 in Queens. The cause of death was natural causes. First opened in the 1960s, Liberation Bookstore specialized in materials promoting black identity and black power and was a neighborhood landmark until its 2007 closing. Robert B. Cohen, who ran Hudson News and expanded the distribution into a national chain of shops, died […]
People
Two more publishing veterans are joining the Open Road team. Former publisher and editor-in-chief of Bantam Dell Nita Taublib will serve as strategic advisor for romance–a role similar to the one being played by Betsy Mitchell for sci-fi and fantasy. It is the latest step in the company’s strategy of focusing on verticals, adding to their children’s line overseen by Barbara Marcus, and their partnership with Otto Penzler’s MysteriousPress.com. Additionally, former Holt editor-in-chief (and former HarperCollins colleague of Jane Friedman) Marjorie Braman will work for Open Road as consulting editorial director. Braman will focus on digital originals (she has previously […]
BEA Looks To Open Show To Public For A Day in 2013
After years of resisting suggestions to incorporate the reading public into Book Expo America, fair organizers “are looking at 2013 to shift” the show to straddle the weekend, running from Thursday through Saturday, with that third day open to public. The Saturday consumer focus would be “built around author events, but [will] also allow them onto the show floor to look behind the curtain, see what new works from their favorite writers will be coming out like ComicCon does.” BEA show director Steve Rosato argues in a blog post that maintaining a third day of regular exhibits outside of the […]
Carol Anshaw’s Carry The One Leads March Indie Next List
Here are the ABA’s monthly picks for March: 1. Carry The One, by Carol Anshaw (Simon & Schuster) The Song of Achilles: A Novel, by Madeline Miller (Ecco) Birds of a Lesser Paradise: Stories, by Megan Mayhew Bergman (Scribner) Pure, by Julianna Baggott (Grand Central) The Starboard Sea: A Novel, by Amber Dermont (St. Martin’s Press) Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, by Jeanette Winterson (Grove) The Healing: A Novel, by Jonathan Odell (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) The Book of Lost Fragrances: A Novel of Suspense, by M.J. Rose (Atria) The Inquisitor: A Novel, by Mark Allen Smith (Holt) […]