Dan Lubart will leave his position as svp strategy and publishing operations at Hachette Book Group at the end of the year, to focus full-time on his data strategy and modeling company Iobyte Solutions. Jeanette Shaw has left Tarcher Perigee, where she was an editor for the past 12 years, to start her own freelance editorial service firm, JS Editorial. Krista Vitola will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as senior editor. Previously she was an editor at Delacorte. At Knopf Books for Young Readers, Karen Greenberg has been promoted to assistant editor. Quressa Robinson has joined D4EO Literary Agency as associate […]
Archives for November 2016
Briefs: Kirkus Prize Winners; NYTBR Best Illustrated Children’s Books; and More
Awards The winners of the Kirkus Prize were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Austin, TX. C.E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings (FSG) prevailed in fiction, with Susan Faludi’s memoir In the Darkroom (Metropolitan) taking the nonfiction category. Finally, As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds won in Young Readers’ Literature. Separately, Poets & Writers announced today that their 2017 Writers for Writers Awards will be given to Francisco Goldman, Ann Patchett, and Richard Shelton. The Editor’s Award is going to Fiona McCrae and Jeff Shotts at Graywolf Press. Yasuko Thanh‘s Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. […]
People, Etc.
Peter Joseph will join Harlequin on November 14 as editorial director, overseeing the launch and build of a new, yet-to-be-named imprint. (In March 2017 they named it Hanover Square Press, set to launch in 2018.) He spent the past twelve years at Thomas Dunne Books, most recently as executive editor. Gaby Salpeter has joined Macmillan Children’s as marketing coordinator. previously, she was web manager and events coordinator at Books of Wonder. With employee buyouts and layoffs hitting the Wall Street Journal staff, books reporter Jennifer Maloney posted on Twitter, “After five amazing years at WSJ, I’m looking for something new.” […]
Megyn Kelly’s Book Includes Added Accounts of Harassment By Ailes
Fox News personality Megyn Kelly’s forthcoming book SETTLE FOR MORE contains her account of sexual harassment by former boss Roger Ailes, which RadarOnline says “was added at the last minute” to the manuscript. The WSJ, which often has ready access to “a person familiar with the matter” at their corporate sibling HarperCollins, confirms the Radar account that this chapter “was a late addition to the book.” In the book, with RO says they obtained ahead of the official release date, Kelly recount Ailes asking her to speak in his defense when he was first accused by others of harassment: “I was […]
Springsteen Helps S&S To a Strong Third Quarter
Simon & Schuster’s parent company CBS reported third quarter sales after the close of the market on Thursday, with book publishing revenues rising 11 percent to $226 million from $203 million a year ago, good enough to turn sales positive for the year-to-date. Operating income also grew modestly, by $1 million, up to $44 million, “as the increase in revenues was largely offset by higher production and selling costs.” As in the prior quarter, digital revenues comprised 23 percent of sales. Both print and digital sales grew and key titles for the quarter included what CBS ceo Les Moonves called “the […]
A California Store Makes Third Year-End Closure for Barnes & Noble
Bronx residents continue to express “outrage, laced with deep resentment and a sense of loss” at the planned year-end closure of the last remaining Barnes & Noble store in the borough by Co-Op City, when the lease expires. Meanwhile, it was reported that the BN in Costa Mesa, CA will also close at the end of year. The chain’s North Brunswick, NJ location is also set for closure as their lease expires. The end of the calendar year is always the busiest time for store closures for the bookseller. They previously announced that they expect to close “about 12” stores […]