Roger Cooper will assist digital publisher Rosetta Books as associate publisher-at-large, helping to secure new titles and original publishing opportunities as well as adding backlist ebooks. Rosetta is the first client for Cooper’s recently-created consulting firm Roger Cooper Book Associates. Francis Lam will join Clarkson Potter as editor-at-large on February 19, reporting to Pam Krauss, where he will be “seeking out new voices in the culinary landscape to contribute both cookbooks and works of narrative nonfiction.” Previously he was features editor at online food market and magazine Gilt Taste. The Gersh Agency has signed Oxford University Press to an exclusive agreement, and […]
Archives for January 2013
Doubleday Announces New Dan Brown Novel, INFERNO, for May 14
Remember back when a different author was driving eye-popping sales for Random House, Inc.? Author Dan Brown returns on May 14 with a new thriller, INFERNO, once again featuring his recurring character Robert Langdon, a Harvard symbologist and set to be published in North America by Doubleday, Transworld in the UK, and in audiobook format by Random House Audio. The publisher announced a first printing of 4 million copies. In its first week on sale in fall 2009, Brown’s last book, THE LOST SYMBOL, sold “more than 2 million units worldwide.” (Brown’s THE DA VINCI CODE is reported to have 81 […]
Fountain, Boo, Shadid, Solomon Among NBCC Award Nominees
The National Book Critics Circle announced finalists in six categories. The Nona A. Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing was awarded to William Deresiewicz (and, for the first time, the citation comes with $1,000 in cash thanks to a “generous donation” by board member Gregg Barrios) while Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award for their “pioneering work in feminist thought.” The winners will be announced on February 28 at the New School. The full list of nominees: AUTOBIOGRAPHY Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us (Atria) Maureen N. McLane, My Poets (FSG) Anthony Shadid, […]
Boys Are Showing More Interest In Reading, But Girls Report Less Love for Books
Scholastic releases the fourth edition of their bi-annual survey, looking at views on reading of kids ages 6 to 17 and their parents. (The full survey comes out at 11, so much as we don’t like to write up press releases only when looking at data, that’s what we had to work with this morning.) Perhaps the best news in the survey is that among boys, they found an increase in “reading enjoyment”–26 percent say they love reading and 47 percent attest to the importance of reading for fun, up from 20 percent and 39 percent respectively in 2010. The […]
Bookselling: WORD To Open Second Location in Jersey City; Black Forest Books & Toys To Close; and More
WORD Bookstore will open a second location in Jersey City, NJ later this year. The new store, which will be located close to the Grove Street PATH Station, will be larger than the original Brooklyn location and have a cafe. Owner Christine Onorati told Shelf Awareness the new WORD location’s inventory “will be ‘very similar’ to the Brooklyn store but with an expanded kids section” while the cafe will double as an event space. “I have very high hopes for this new store, and I’m excited to help foster the vibrant, literary, community-focused spirit of Jersey City.” Black Forest Books […]
People, Distribution, Etc.
Film development and publishing veteran Ruth Pomerance will join Hyperion on January 28 as a senior editor, focusing on the acquisition and development of new stories and author talent that will translate across the Disney/ABC Television Group businesses. Most recently she was executive producer for the adaptation of Judy Blume’s Tiger Eyes and a consultant to entertainment firms. Pomerance has worked for producers including Scott Rudin, Arnold Kopelson, Fred Zollo, and John Davis, for whom she acquired and developed literary properties for film and TV, and has worked at The Rockwell Group, USA Films, Artists Management Group, and the William Morris […]