Kate Napolitano will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior editor starting November 13. Previously, she was senior editor for Plume/Blue Rider. At Casemate Group, Curtis Key has been promoted to vice president digital services and publishing operations; Sam Caggiula becomes US group marketing and publicity director, but will continue to acquire titles and look for publishing partnerships; and Michaela Goff has been promoted to the new position of vice president, sales, marketing and client relations. Baker Literary Scouting has been appointed nonfiction scout for Natur och Kultur in Sweden. Nancy Friday, 84, “the author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women’s sexuality and social identity […]
Archives for November 2017
Briefs: Kirkus Prize Winners, and More
KF Literary Scouting has been appointed scout for Tchelet in Israel and Eksmo in Russia. Awards The winners of the Kirkus Prize were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Austin, TX. Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Riverhead) won for fiction, and Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf (Liveright) took the nonfiction category. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (DCB) won in Young Readers’ Literature. Best Of The renamed New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards announced its ten best books of the year: Muddy, written by Michael Mahin, illustrated by Evan Turk Frida […]
Big Publishers On Their Harassment Procedures
Sexual harassment allegations against a growing group of prominent men — including powerful media figures as well as celebrities with broad platforms — has reverberated across multiple business, touching the publishing industry in multiple ways. Accusations have resulted in cancelled book contracts, agencies dropping major clients, and more. The heightened sensitivity to sexual harassment has also influenced the internal functioning of companies, with some publishers bolstering their human resources procedures as a result. We queried the five largest trade publishers to see what steps their HR departments are taking to open channels of communication with employees and better protect them […]
Make Your Own News
Today we introduce a new feature that people have been requesting for a long time: A community bulletin board/classified ad section for sharing news, offers and opportunities that don’t fit in the day-to-day editorial coverage in Publishers Lunch. Our new Classifieds work just like our very effective, industry-leading Publishers Lunch Job Board. Your posts run for seven days on a dedicated page at PublishersMarketplace.com, and every Friday we’ll collect the week’s listings in a special section of Publishers Lunch, which you can see below today. Use PL classifieds to offer galleys or office space; announce awards, new clients, press releases, […]
Simon & Schuster Gains On Audio and International Sales
CBS reported third quarter earnings on Thursday afternoon, with sales at Simon & Schuster nudging up by $2 million to $228 million, with operating income also up $2 million to $46 million. That means that without the incorporation of Adams Media, acquired towards the end of last year, comparable results were down slightly, even with big new releases from Hillary Clinton, Tom Brady, Nelson DeMille and more. But S&S had published Bruce Springsteen and Amy Schumer in the third quarter of 2016, setting a high bar for comparisons. CEO Carolyn Reidy says they “managed to recreate” that same frontlist momentum […]
Bookselling: Indigo to Test US Stores, and More
Canadian bookseller Indigo reported fiscal second quarter sales on Thursday, showing their continuing and successful conversion from “books and music” to a “cultural department store”: Sales of $224.5 million (CA) were up $7.5 million compared to a year ago, driven by non-book sales. Print sales actually fell $5 million, to $131 million, as general merchandise sales grew $11 million. Print now comprises 58.4 percent of Indigo’s sales, compared to 63.1 percent a year ago. Retail superstore comps increased 2 percent, as small format store comps fell 4 percent — with the print and small-format store weakness blamed on comparisons to last […]