Will Lippincott has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent, based in Los Angeles. Previously he was an agent and founding partner at Lippincott, Massie & McQuilkin until he left there in late 2016 “to find new paths.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Nicole Ellul has been promoted to editor for Simon Pulse; Sarah McCabe becomes associate editor for Simon Pulse; and Tricia Lin moves up to assistant editor for Aladdin. Diego Molano Rodriguez joins the marketing department as marketing coordinator, moving over from the sales department where he was most recently sales assistant. Former Baltimore Sun books editor Michael Pakenham, 85, died May 9 in Hanover, […]
Archives for May 2018
Harper Lee Estate, Scott Rudin Settle Mockingbird Lawsuit
A Broadway production of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is expected to go forward after Lee’s estate and the play’s producer, Scott Rudin, settled a pair of lawsuits Thursday. The NYT reports that both sides “issued a four sentence statement saying that they had ‘amicably settled’ the litigation, but offering no specifics,” with both parties filing a settlement notice with the Southern District of New York court indicating the suit was “dismissed with prejudice.” As such it remains unclear if there will be changes to Aaron Sorkin’s script or if the production will go ahead as originally intended. The […]
Paris’s Bring Me Back Tops June Library Reads
Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris leads June’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Allison Pearson’s How Hard Can It Be? and Katy Regan’s Little Big Love, both available to sample now in Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. There There, by Tommy Orange Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman The Word is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz Jar of Hearts, by Jennifer Hillier Dreams of Falling, by Karen White The Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang All We Ever Wanted, by Emily Giffin
People, Etc.
Mary Marotta has been promoted to senior vice president, DK North America, reporting to coo Shaun Hodgkinson. The US senior management team will report to Marotta, with Prima Games publisher Mike Degler continuing to report to Hodgkinson. Amy Cloud has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior editor, acquiring middle grade and young adult. She was previously at Aladdin. Pamela Peterson joins Cave Henricks Communications as associate director of publicity on May 21. She was senior publicity manager at Fortier Public Relations. Harassment Files The Washington Post reported another complaint against University of Virginia professor and National Book Award winner John Casey. […]
The Final Statistics of the Year (2017)
The AAP released their StatShot data for last December and all of 2017. The real headline, as we have suggested a few times already, is that 2016 was a much better year than originally calculated. This time a year, we were told by the AAP, reported publisher sales for 2016 were $6.63 billion — down $17 million compared from 2015. But now, in the final analysis (AAP modifies the previous year’s data month by month as the comparison baseline), 2016 sales were a big $7.006 billion. So we missed our chance to proclaim that 2016 was up by 5.4 percent. […]
Springer Nature Cancels IPO
At the last minute Springer Nature cancelled the IPO of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, citing “market conditions” and indicating they might try again at another time. A banker close to the deal told Reuters that many investors had become cautious after the poor performance of a number of European IPOs: “The new issue will have less liquidity. Given the poor performance of other IPOs, orders for Springer have been somewhat smaller than expected.” Orders were sufficient to allocate all of the shares, though in a strong IPO, orders will significantly exceed the shares being issued. Global Capital reports that […]