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 almost a year ago,writing on Facebook: “This is a hard post to write. I have so been looking forward to going on book tour for my new novel, The Stars are Fire, and had hoped to meet many of you on my travels.” Her latest […]
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 standardized ways to report territory along with auctions and pre-empts, and more. The new form is mobile-friendly, as part of our progressive revamp of key site pages, and the backend logic will help us to better compose the final deal posts and automatically tag your […]
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 ABA announced a new code of conduct for association meetings and events. The code will apply to all participants, including “booksellers, ABA staff, exhibitors, speakers/presenters, guests, sponsors, volunteers, and all affiliated attendees.” On the list of behaviors that violate the code: offensive verbal comments; inappropriate physical […]
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 $17.9 million, compared to an operating profit the previous year of $16.1 million. Their after tax loss was $18.5 million, compared to a loss of $5.3 million a year ago. The company notes that operating margin “was impacted by a combination of factors including high […]
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, the James Tait Black Prizes announced their nominees in fiction and nonfiction, with the winners to be named on August 18. The American Booksellers Association announced the finalists for the 2018 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, with the winners to be announced May 2. The nominees […]
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 Clinton and Patterson appearing together at 12 and Clinton appearing alone at six. (The website bills the tour as “A Conversation With Bill Clinton” and features only his headshot.) Bookstore events include June 5 at Barnes & Noble in NYC (at 555 Fifth Avenue); June […]