Forthcoming In a podcast with Variety, Esther Newberg at ICM confirmed that Prince‘s memoir, sold to Chris Jackson at One World shortly before the performer’s death in 2016, will indeed be published. She suggests the title will be ready soon, “hopefully at next Christmas” (meaning 2019, apparently). The publisher tells us that a publication date has not been confirmed yet. Written by Dan Piepenbring (starting with the 50 pages of manuscript that Prince had written before his death), Newberg calls it “a wonderful testament to a great songwriter and performer.” (Update: the book is staying with Spiegel & Grau rather […]
Archives for April 2018
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Michelle Howry will join Putnam as executive editor on May 7, reporting to Sally Kim. Previously she was executive editor at Hachette Books. Juliana Horbachevsky has joined Little, Brown as publicity manager. Most recently she was with Crown Publishing Group. Nicole Angeloro, editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will take on the additional role of editorial manager of Mariner Books. Angeloro will continue to oversee The Best American publishing program. Allison Sundstrom has been promoted to senior designer at Sourcebooks. Following her promotion to ceo of Penguin Random House US, Madeline McIntosh will now also join Bertelsmann’s group management committee, which “advises and […]
LBF: Nonfiction Tops Dealmaking
Consistent with our deal stats preview from Friday, the most notable trend from this London Book Fair dealmaking season is the surge of big deals — and “major” deals in particular — for nonfiction. And that’s without counting Hachette’s pickup of Marie Kondo and Scott Sonenshein’s next book, or other just-announced nonfiction from today including books from Ash Carter, Yotam Ottolenghi, and Senator Doug Jones. (Our LBF count covers the five weeks leading up to the show, from Monday, March 5 to Monday, April 9.) The 11 major nonfiction deals are the most we have ever reported in an LBF lead-up: Overall […]
Forthcoming: Silva, Tolkien, and More
The London Book Fair kicks off with a few publication announcements of high profile books due shortly (and available for pre-orders) trying to be called recent signings. HarperCollins will publish six more books by Daniel Silva for publication around the world, starting with THE OTHER WOMAN in July. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish the third in its J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy, THE FALL OF GONDOLIN, edited again by Christopher Tolkien and illustrated by Alan Lee, on August 30. And St. Martin’s has announced Jocko Willink and Leif Babin‘s THE DICHOTOMY OF LEADERSHIP: Balancing the Challenges of Extreme Ownership to Lead and Win for […]
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David Kopp, vp, executive editor of Convergent Books, will retire on May 1. Kopp began his book publishing career in 1994 at Multnomah Publishers, moving with it to Random House in 2006, and helped to launch Convergent in 2014. Gary Jansen has been promoted to executive editor at Convergent Books, and will continue to act as director of Image. Hanna Lee has been promoted to senior manager, digital marketing at Random House Children’s. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lori Glazer has been promoted to svp, executive director of publicity. Gabbie Piraino has been named foreign rights manager at DeFiore and Company. Carina Mathern will join Harper Germany […]
Skyhorse Cuts 16 Jobs, 25 Percent of New Titles
Skyhorse Publishing announced “a major reorganization” that includes significant job cuts and plans to reduce their new-title output. The company says that 16 full-time positions were eliminated from a workforce that had totaled 77 people, and they plant to reduce new titles published by “approximately 25 percent” in 2018, down from an abundant 1,120 titles published in 2017. President and publisher Tony Lyons indicated the changes are “in response to shortfalls in Skyhorse revenues in 2017 and in early 2018, including issues related to its distribution deal and paper shortages, as well as changes in the marketplace in general,” according to […]