At IPG, Cynthia Murphy has been promoted to library sales manager. In addition, Lara Alexander has been promoted to trade sales manager, and Laura Donnelly moves up to trade sales associate. Audrey Gibbons has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate publicist for the SSBFYR, McElderry, Atheneum and Saga imprints. Previously she was an associate publicist at Black Dog & Leventhal. NBC News will air an hour-long special on Wednesday evening, May 28, featuring Glenn Greenwald — author of the just-released NO PLACE TO HIDE: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, and including a recorded interview between […]
Archives for May 2014
Fall/Winter BEA Book Buzz Preview: Nonfiction
As usual, our free Buzz Books samplers both open with Sarah Weinman’s broader surveys of over 100 notable books from the forthcoming season. We’ll be running portions of those overviews the next few days to help round out your BEA radar — and you can read the complete previews anytime in the new editions of Buzz Books. In today’s installment, we look at forthcoming nonfiction. Conversation Starters In highly anticipated upcoming books from political figures, former Defense secretary and CIA chief Leon Panetta offers Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (Penguin Press, October, with Jim Newton) […]
Amazon Removes Pre-Order Capability On Many Forthcoming Hachette Titles
Amazon’s slowdown of their business with Hachette Book Group as the parties battle over terms took another turn Thursday evening, as site visitors noted on social media the disappearance of pre-order buying capability for print and Kindle editions of many forthcoming HBG titles. Among affected titles due for publication in June are JK Rowling’s next Robert Galbraith novel SILKWORM; Michael Koryta’s THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD; Megan Abbott’s THE FEVER; Elin Hilderbrand’s THE MATCHMAKER, and Tom Rob Smith’s THE FARM, plus Anne Rivers Siddons’ THE GIRLS OF AUGUST (due in early July). The affected books now display as “currently unavailable” and offer to have customers “sign […]
Globe Pequot Press Sold to Rowman & Littlefield
The Globe Pequot Press has been sold to Rowman & Littlefield, for undisclosed terms, by parent company Morris Publishing. R&L has purchased the imprints that published as Globe Pequot Press, Lyons Press, Falcon Guides, Knack, Two Dot, and Insiders’ Guide. Morris Publishing will retain the Milepost, Skirt, Pop Out, and Western Horseman Books imprints, and the U.K.-based Footprint Guides. R&L’s National Book Network will take over distribution of the purchased imprints as well as the retained lines “sometime in August or September.” NBN will also take over sales and distribution responsibilities for Globe Pequot’s own 18 distribution clients. Morris Publishing’s Springfield, TN distribution facility […]
People, Etc.
David Larabell has joined CAA as an agent in the books department, where he will help identify publishing opportunities for the agency’s non-author clients. Larabell, who will be based in CAA’s New York office, was previously an agent at the David Black Agency. Rachel Wasdyke has been promoted to senior publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Jeff Deutsch will take over as director of the University of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago on July 1. With 53,000 members, it calls itself “a beloved Chicago cultural institution.” Deutsch has been director of stores for the Stanford Bookstore Group since 2012, prior to […]
Fall/Winter BEA Book Buzz Preview: YA & Middle Grade
As usual, our free Buzz Books samplers both open with Sarah Weinman’s broader surveys of over 100 notable books from the forthcoming season. We’ll be running portions of those overviews the next few days to help round out your BEA radar — and you can read the complete previews anytime in the new editions of Buzz Books. Young adult fiction has really grown up in the last few years. More than ever before, the sheer volume is matched only by the amazing quality of many of the titles we want to help you discover. Sifting through the many thousands of […]