Anke Steinecke has been promoted to chief legal officer of Penguin Random House worldwide, and will continue as executive vice president, general counsel, Penguin Random House US reporting to ceo Markus Dohle in both capacities. Anna Dobben has joined the National Book Foundation as awards and relationships manager. She was previously publicist at Knopf. John Sellers will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on January 29 as publicity director for children’s books. He has been children’s reviews editor at Publishers Weekly since 2009. Sarah Brohman has joined LifeTree Media as editorial director. Previously she worked at Random House Canada and ran a freelance editing, content […]
Archives for January 2018
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview: Literary & Debut Fiction
Our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler excerpts an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction from authors including Patrick DeWitt, Aminatta Forna, Sheila Heti, Ottessa Moshfegh, and more. As usual, we begin our free ebook with an exhaustive overview of the upcoming publishing season featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions from Kindle, Nook, iBooks (where they are being promoted on a number of high-profile pages), and Kobo, among other online retailers. With Winter Institute 13 set for next week in Memphis, we’ll be presenting extracts from that seasonal preview […]
People, Etc.
Carolyn Bresh will join Quarto as chief financial officer starting April 9, and also join the board as executive director. Previously, she was a partner at consultancy Everymind. CEO Marcus Leaver said, “She brings considerable sector and international experience, an increased commercial focus as well as strategic planning and analysis–all of which we need as an ambitious pure-play publishing business.” Also at Quarto, Nanette Gibb has joined as group director of people. She has worked in human resources roles for 25 years, including at Hearst Magazines UK and for CBRE UK. Anne-Lise Spitzer has joined the Philip Spitzer Literary Agency as executive vice president and […]
Fire and Fury Sells Over 190,000 Hardcovers In Full Week
NPD Bookscan updated their book sales tracking on Wednesday, showing sales for the hardcover edition of Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY through Saturday, January 13, for the book’s first full week of sales. They recorded sales to consumers of just under 192,000 hardcovers for the week, after recording sales of close to 29,000 copies in the first two days on sale the prior week. Publisher Henry Holt was still rushing to print and ship inventory to accounts during the week to catch up with demand. Holt had reported late last Thursday, January 11, that they “will have shipped” 700,000 copies, with […]
The Complete Spring/Summer Buzz Books Titles
As we revealed yesterday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2018: Spring/Summer features a roster of authors you love, as well as excerpts from 11 debut voices. Plus, our dedicated YA companion, Buzz Books YA Spring/Summer, compiles a selection of the season’s must-read titles, from bestselling authors to newcomers. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys—get an EPUB file of Buzz and Buzz YA directly from our site, from us or go to NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer editions are available for download now for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple’s iBooks (where they are being promoted on a number of high-profile pages), […]
Fire and Fury Started as “The Great Transition”
Bloomberg takes a deeper look at how Michael Wolff got his steady access to the White House, noting the early, misleading working title of his book was The Great Transition: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration. “In part due to that title, Wolff was able to exploit an inexperienced White House staff who mistakenly believed they could shape the book to the president’s liking.” Bloomberg says Wolff visited the White House “about 17 times, according to a person familiar with the matter.” While Bannon gets much of the blame for allowing Wolff in, “privately, Trump allies say other top aides […]