Rowman & Littlefield announced it has acquired the assets of cookbook publisher Gooseberry Patch, which has been a longtime distribution of R&L’s National Book Network (NBN). Gooseberry Patch will operate as part of Globe Pequot, which R&L acquired in 2014, and Gooseberry coo Liz Plotnick-Snay will continue to oversee the line of over 200 titles. San Francisco bookstore Borderlands announced on its website that it plans to close “no later than March 31,” blaming the city’s new minimum wage law passed last November. “Although all of us at Borderlands support the concept of a living wage in principal and we believe that it’s […]
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Allison Hunter has joined the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency as an agent. Previously she was an agent at Inkwell Management, and at SKLA will continue to actively acquire literary and commercial fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, cultural studies and pop culture. Jordan Hamessley will join Adaptive Books as editorial director on February 9 overseeing all imprints. Previously she was an editor at Egmont USA. Karin Schulze‘s position as associate director, foreign rights at the Crown Publishing Group has been eliminated. After February 6, she can be reached at karin.schulze@gmail.com. Ami Greko has left her position as book marketing strategist at Goodreads […]