Rachel Joyce’s THE LOVE SONG OF MISS QUEENIE HENNESSY is the No. 1 pick for the March Library Reads list. The list also includes Ian Caldwell’s THE FIFTH GOSPEL, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the Library Reads list recommends: Dead Wake, by Erik Larson Prudence, by Gail Carriger The Witch of Painted Sorrows, by MJ Rose Cat Out of Hell, by Lynne Truss Vanishing Girls, by Lauren Oliver Delicious Foods, by James Hannaham The Pocket Wife, by Susan Crawford Where All Light Tends to Go, […]
Archives for February 2015
Still Available: A Discount Code for New PM Subscribers
As we first noted right after Groundhog Day, we have brought back our very occasional offer of a discount for those who want to try our full, paid service at PublishersMarketplace.com. For a limited time only, we invite new subscribers to check out a whole month’s worth of all of the resources at PublishersMarketplace.com for just $15, a “rollback” to our original price. On the second of our two registration pages, when you are asked to “choose a payment plan,” just enter the code 2015 in the “Promo code:” box. Having a full month at a discount is the best way to […]
People: Golomb to Join Writers House, Belden to Scribner, and More
At a party Thursday night to celebrate her agency’s 25th anniversary, Susan Golomb announced that she had decided it was time to join forces with a larger company, so she and her staff at the Susan Golomb Agency and clients (including Jonathan Franzen, on hand at the party, along with Rachel Kushner, William T. Vollmann, Tom Rachman and others) will become part of Writers House. The leaders of Writers House Amy Berkower and Simon Lipskar were on hand at the event to welcome Golomb and their partnership with her. “After celebrating 25 years of having my own agency, I wanted to spend the next […]
Simon & Schuster Sales Fall for Fourth Quarter and Full Year
Fourth quarter sales at Simon & Schuster fell by $10 million (or 4.5 percent) to $215 million. The second consecutive quarterly drop left the company $31 million below 2013’s sales, down 4 percent to $778 million for the year. (Though the year-to-year variance is relatively small, it is the lowest annual sales level for S&S since 2006.) Fourth quarter sales were said to be lower because of the comparison to a year ago, when Duck Dynasty tie-ins were strong, though in 2014 S&S ceo Carolyn Reidy said lower third quarter sales were due to the timing of their big releases and was expecting “a huge […]
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Sanjay Doraiswamy has joined Simon & Schuster in the newly created position of data scientist, reporting to Doug Stambaugh. Previously he worked as data scientist for the IT services firm Agilex Technologies, consulting for the Department of Homeland Security. Doraiswamy will initially focus on analyzing pricing strategies, after which he will move to broader projects. Senior director of publicity at Ecco Michael McKenzie is leaving the company Thursday after 15 years to “pursue other opportunities.” He added in an email, “I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be doing next – possibly freelancing, possibly going to another house – as I […]
The Complete Spring/Summer YA (and Middle Grade) Buzz Books
Following up on yesterday’s post, here is a complete list of the over 25 forthcoming titles from which we feature pre-publication excerpts in our recently published free ebook Buzz Books 2015 Young Adult: Spring. You can get an EPUB of the trade edition directly from our site, or if you prefer, it’s “read now” download at NetGalley (where it already has over 130 five- and four-star reviews) and on Edelweiss. The consumer edition is available from Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBook Store, Barnes and Noble Nook, Kobo, and Google Play. Here is the entire roster: Renee Ahdieh, THE WRATH AND THE DAWN (Putnam Juvenile) Kathleen Baldwin, A SCHOOL FOR UNUSUAL GIRLS (Tor […]