Tara Gavin has joined Kensington as executive editor. She spent the past 30 years at Harlequin, most recently as senior executive editor. Ron Longe recently started his own boutique PR firm, Ron Longe Public Relations, specializing in food, lifestyle, and illustrated books. He can now be reached at ron@ronlonge.com. He was with Media Masters Publicity for six years. At P.S. Literary Agency, Amanda Schiffmann has been promoted to the newly created role of digital and social Media coordinator. Market Partners International celebrated their 25th anniversary at an event Monday night — and toasted one of the founding partners, Connie Sayre, who […]
Archives for March 2015
March Bookseller Picks
The March Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Dead Wake by Erik Larson, releasing the 10th. At Amazon, George Hodgman‘s Bettyville — previewed now in our Spring/Summer Publishers Lunch Buzz Books sampler — is their spotlight pick, and Jill Alexander‘s Hausfrau is the featured debut. The other picks for March are Larson, along with: H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald All the Old Knives, Olen Steinhauer Aquarium, David Vann The Last Flight of Poxl West, Daniel Torday Barefoot Dogs, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho The Animals, Christian Kiefer The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, Blaine Harden Future Crimes, Marc Goodman Apple’s iBooks Store features Torday […]
Paula Deen Books to Return This Fall, Distributed By HBG
Paula Deen returns to book publishing this fall, issuing her titles through Paula Deen Ventures, the company she launched in early 2014 with backing from Najafi Media. The company announced an agreement with Hachette Book Group to sell and distribute her titles throughout the world. The first planned new title is Deen Cuts the Fat, for publication September 8, and PDV plans reissues of at least some of Deen’s previous titles, including The Lady & Sons, A Savannah Country Cookbook, and The Lady & Sons, Too! Deen tells People Magazine the book has “200 amazing light recipes.” She notes, “I cut the calories […]
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Anja Schmidt has joined Oxmoor House as editorial director, reporting to Time Home Entertainment publisher Margot Schupf. Most recently she was US publisher at Kyle Books. Zack Wagman will join Ecco as executive editor on March 9. Previously he was senior editor at Crown & Hogarth. Matt Mullin will leave Nook, where he has been senior manager, digital content, at the end of this week and joins start-up book discovery site The Reading Room on March 16 as sales director. Reporting to Mullin at The Reading Room will be newly-hired sales and publishing coordinator Nicole Cunningham, formerly of ICM. At Holt, Caroline Zancan has been […]