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Archives for November 2016

November 30, 2016By Sarah Weinman

Bookselling: NYT on What it Takes To Open A New Store; Lexington, KY’s Morris Book Shop Closes

November 30, 2016By Sarah Weinman

The NYT looks at signs of a comeback for new independent bookstores in the city, most recently Greenlight Bookstore’s just-opened second location in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, as well as around the country. One commonality behind a number of new stores across the country is community financing “that gives neighborhoods a stake in the businesses.” Greenlight co-owner Jessica Bagnulo talked of two major questions when opening a new store: which city neighborhoods need one and which can support one. “It’s sort of joking, but the rule of thumb is, if the neighborhood can support a farmer’s market, the neighborhood can support a bookstore.” […]

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November 29, 2016By Michael Cader

People: Stanley Forms New Firm, and More

November 29, 2016By Michael Cader

Janklow & Nesbit partner, managing director and head of foreign rights Cullen Stanley has left to form her own firm, Cullen Stanley International Agency. Stanley has worked at J&N since 1991. The agency said in a brief statement it “is very pleased to announce that it is spinning off its foreign rights department in support of” Stanley’s company. She will handle all UK/Commonwealth and translation rights for Janklow & Nesbit. In other people news, Beth Vesel has left the Irene Goodman Literary Agency to reopen her own agency (which she ran until joining Goodman as svp in early 2014). Kathleen Schmidt […]

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November 29, 2016By Michael Cader

New Paula Hawkins Novel Into The Water Publishes May 2, 2017

November 29, 2016By Michael Cader

Riverhead, Transworld in the UK, and Doubleday Canada have announced that The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins‘ much-anticipated next novel will be released on May 2, 2017. Into the Water is another novel of psychological suspense “about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets.” The set up: “When a single mother and a teenage girl each turn up dead at the bottom of the river, just weeks apart, the ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated history.” The US edition is listed as 352 pages long, priced at $27. A cover has been released for the UK edition, […]

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November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

Barnes & Noble News: Albuquerque Store Closed by Fire, Minnesota Store Opens with Bar, and More Bookselling

November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

Barnes & Noble’s store in the Coronado Mall in Albuquerque, NM was struck by arson on Saturday night and is reported to have “suffered heavy fire, smoke and water damage.” The store is closed for repairs, as is an Old Navy store in a different location that also suffered from a fire that evening. Spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating said that store employees would continue to be paid while the repairs are made, and some are working at another area B&N temporarily. A man has been charged for the Old Navy fire, though it’s not clear yet whether he will be […]

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November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

People, Etc.

November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

Jason Wells will return to Simon & Schuster Children’s in the new role of vp, marketing and publicity on December 7, after 14 years at Abrams Children’s. (He worked at S&S Children’s in the early 2000s.) VP, director of marketing Lucille Rettino will leave the company after working for the division for the more than 10 years. Wells will run what Children’s division president and publisher Jon Anderson calls “an expanded and unified publicity and marketing force, adding additional positions throughout the department…. Placing them both under the direction of Jason recognizes the remarkable talent he has shown throughout his career for nuts-and-bolts organization, […]

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November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

People

November 28, 2016By Michael Cader

Larissa Helena has joined Pippin Properties as manager of subsidiary rights and associate literary agent, having relocated to NY. Previously she was executive editor at Fantástica Rocco in Brazil. The San Francisco Chronicle has a profile on the return this summer of Berkeley native Steve Wasserman to take over Heyday Books: “Now, in what might seem an improbable new career chapter, Wasserman, at 64, has come home to Berkeley to run Heyday, the scrappy, purpose-driven publisher known for its beautifully made books about the natural environment and native peoples of Northern California…. Wasserman is committed to both affirming and enlarging the […]

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