• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.: Former ICM Head Jeff Berg’s New Agency, Resolution

January 28, 2013
By Sarah Weinman

Former chairman of ICM Jeff Berg, who left the company last fall after a protracted battle with other executives, will launch a new agency, Resolution, this week. Deadline reports the new agency has set up a Los Angeles office and will grow “to an anticipated staffing level of 35 agents plus support staff in LA, 25 agents in NYC, and 10 agents in Nashville” over the next six months. Among those set to join Resolution are book-to-film agents Rich Green, moving over after 9 years with CAA, and Shari Smiley, who operated her own outfit for the past year after 19 years with CAA. Resolution received more than $200 million in seed money from Najafi Cos., which owns Direct Brands (and in 2011, sought to buy Borders out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.)

In the UK, Bonnier will launch a new nonfiction imprint, Red Lemon Press, in fall 2013, focusing on “publishing books for adults and children of all ages that aims to bring solid facts in unexpected ways to anyone who is curious to know more about the world and beyond.” Martina Challis has been named publisher of the new imprint, reporting to Sarah Odendina. Red Lemon Press will share sales and marketing teams with Hot Key and will share foreign rights and co-edition teams with Weldon Owen.

At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Junessa Viloria has been promoted to editor and Ratna Kamath moves up to assistant editor.

Midpoint Trade will distribute London-based children’s book and app publisher Digital Leaf.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of In Our Image, as well as books including Vietnam: A History, Mao and China, and the memoir Paris in The Fifties, journalist and historian Stanley Karnow died in his sleep on Sunday at age 87.

Newsday looks at Penguin USA ceo David Shanks‘s ambitious plans for expansion–at the Long Island vineyard and farm he and his wife purchased last year. “In addition to the 25 acres of vines, he has planted an 1,800-tree apple orchard, and he plans to add peaches and nectarines this year. ‘Next year I’ll have 80,000 apples to sell,’ he said. He’s also planted two acres of blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, and some 15 acres of vegetables.”

Filed Under: Distribution, Free, New Imprints, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
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

  • Dublin Literary Award Shortlist Announced March 30, 2023 Prize site
  • Leigh Bardugo Signs with WME for Film/TV Representation March 29, 2023 Variety
  • Solid State Books Workers Announce Plans to Unionize March 28, 2023 Union website
  • Following Sale, America's Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Including All of ATK Kids Staff March 28, 2023 Union instagram post
  • Acquire and Fire: Hachette UK In Consultations to Eliminate About Half the Staff of Welbeck March 28, 2023 Bookseller
  • Jefferson, de Kretser Win Folio Prizes March 27, 2023 Prize announcement
  • Harper UK Edits Agatha Christie Novels to Remove "Offensive" Language March 27, 2023 The Guardian
  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
  • Netflix to Stream Series Based on Ramit Sethi's Book, "How to Get Rich" March 23, 2023 THR
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.