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Archives for September 2017

People, Etc.

September 29, 2017
By Erin Somers

Lauren Adams has been promoted to senior marketing manager of licensed and proprietary brands marketing for Random House Children’s. Kate Hutchison joins BookShout as director of business development and publisher relations. Most recently she worked for the startups Litsy and Bookstr. LitHub’s latest “interview with a gatekeeper” features Colin Dickerman. On why being an editor is […]

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May AAP Stats Show Some Increased Shipments, Uptick in eBooks

September 28, 2017
By Michael Cader

The AAP released their May StatShot report, putting new data against a mostly flat marketplace. The outlier for the month is that ebook sales rose for the first time in long time, albeit marginally — at $88.4 million, up a big $2.4 million compared to $86 million a year ago. (May 2016 was down $19.4 […]

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People, Etc.

September 27, 2017
By Erin Somers

​Following the closing of the imprint’s Nashville office earlier this year, Howard Books senior editor Phyllis Boultinghouse will retire on September 29. She has been with the company since 1985. Beth Adams has been promoted to executive editor. Former editor-in-chief Becky Nesbitt will return to Howard Books as editor-at-large, based in Nashville and reporting to Adams. Jocelyn Bailey has […]

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People, Etc.

September 27, 2017
By Erin Somers

At Abrams Children’s, Maggie Lehrman has been promoted to executive editor and Traci Todd moves up to editorial director. Pamela Bobowicz will join on October 2 as executive editor of licensed publishing, reporting to Todd. Previously she was senior editor for Harper Children’s. At Massie & McQuilkin, Lexi Wangler has been promoted to junior agent & foreign rights associate. Laura Brown has been […]

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For the Record: Amazon Has Over 40 Stores, In Addition to Amazon Books

September 26, 2017
By Michael Cader

We’ve covered the rollout of Amazon Books carefully, as recently as yesterday’s report on the 14th known bookstore location, planned for Austin, TX. (On that front, Amazon corrected and updated their job listing to indicate the new store is located at The Domain NORTHSIDE, a separate property adjacent to The Domain.) Also note that the […]

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People, Etc.

September 25, 2017
By Erin Somers

Rachel Vogel has joined Dunow, Carlson & Lerner as agent. She was most recently agent at Waxman Leavell Literary Agency. Jennifer Chen Tran has joined the Bradford Literary Agency as agent. She was previously associate agent at Fuse Literary. Ginny Smith Younce has been promoted to executive editor at Penguin Press. Jessie Kindig has joined […]

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