Josh Zajdman has joined Picador as senior publicist. He was previously a publicist at Media Connect. Lance Fensterman has been promoted to president of Global ReedPOP. Anita Shreve, 71, author of 20 books included The Pilot’s Wife and The Weight of Water, died of cancer Thursday at home in southern New Hampshire. She had announced her illness […]
Archives for March 2018
New and Improved Deal Reports
For the first time (I think) since we launched over 16 years ago, we have revamped the deal report form at PublishersMarketplace.com. It adds a variety of new fields and checkboxes to better accommodate the stream of deals we receive every day — now including fields for series, illustrators, and additional editors and agents, plus […]
People, Etc.
Erroll McDonald, vice president and executive editor at Knopf Doubleday, has been named the chairman of the board of directors of the Center for Fiction. Beth Sochacki has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Sourcebooks. Jenna Huerta has joined Chronicle Books as senior designer. Previously she was a lead designer at Pixar. Harassment Files The […]
Quarto Has Good Finish to A Hard Year
Quarto reported “poor results” for the full year of 2017, but after a very weak first half and a profit warning in November, sales for the second half of the year from continuing operations were up 5.8 percent. For the full year, continuing sales were $152.5 million, down $2.1 million, with an operating loss of […]
Awards: Wang Wins PEN/Hemingway; Indies Choice Finalists; and More
Weike Wang has won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her debut novel Chemistry. She will receive $25,000 at an awards ceremony in Boston on April 8. Lisa Ko’s The Leavers and Adelia Saunders’ Indelible were the runners-up, while The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins and Live from Cairo by Ian Bassingthwaighte received honorable mentions. In other awards news, […]
Clinton Book Tour Details Announced
Dates and locations have been announced for Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s book tour for The President is Missing. The first event will take place at Book Con on Sunday, June 3, where Clinton and Patterson will have a book signing and discuss the novel on a main stage panel. Eighteen appearances are listed so far, with […]