At Grand Central, Alex Logan has been promoted to executive editor; Morgan Hedden to associate editor; Elizabeth Kulhanek to associate editor; Jordan Rubinstein to publicist; Danielle Egnozzi to marketing designer; Estelle Hallick to manager, marketing & publicity, Forever; and Monisha Lakhotia to assistant marketing manager, Forever. Gabriella Mongelli has been promoted to assistant editor at Putnam. Kristen Steele, director of marketing and publisher relations for Baker & Taylor Publisher Services/Bookmasters, will leave the company on March 6. Dan Berkowitz has left his position as digital director at Writers House to open a consultancy, AuthorPop, working with authors on all things […]
Archives for March 2019
March Picks From Reese, Apple Books
Last summer Reese Witherspoon‘s production company Hello Sunshine and Amazon Studios announced a co-production of a 13-episode series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid‘s forthcoming DAISY JONES & THE SIX. So it should be surprise that the book is also the March pick for Witherspoon’s book club (as well as Amazon’s “spotlight pick” for the month). In other selections, I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon is Pennie’s Pick at Costco for the month. Also, Apple Books‘ Best Books of March includes: Outer Order, Inner Calm, by Gretchen Rubin The Stranger Diaries, by Elly Griffiths Spies of No Country, by Matti Friedman […]
Judge Wonders If Undisclosed New Introduction to Roger Stone’s Skyhorse Paperback Violates Gag Order
Roger Stone might be the first American in a long time to face the possibility of jail for writing in a book. On February 21 when Stone went before Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson to apologize for a threatening post about her on social media, she had placed a blanket gag order on Stone going forward. “The prohibition includes, but is not limited to, statements made about the case through the following means: radio broadcasts; interviews on television, on the radio, with print reporters, or on internet based media; press releases or press conferences; blogs or letters to the editor; […]
Judge Calls Stephen Elliott’s Lawsuit “Deficient”
Only one one Stephen Elliott’s three claims against S***ty Media Men list creator Moira Donegan, that of defamation, survived Friday afternoon’s pre-conference on the motion to dismiss. Judge Lashann Dearcy Hall quickly mowed through Elliott’s other claims of negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress, with the plaintiff’s counsel agreeing to withdraw those. Team Donegan came to play, with lead attorney Roberta Kaplan arguing in the Eastern District courthouse in Brooklyn, and Donegan watching from the first row. Elliott did not attend, and as it transpired, his lead attorney, Andrew Miltenberg, was out of town. Even the defamation claim, which […]
YA Author Kosoko Jackson Cancels Book After Online Criticism
Debut YA author Kosoko Jackson has withdrawn his book A Place for Wolves from publication after it was called culturally insensitive in online reviews. Originally due out from Sourcebooks Fire on March 26, the book centers on a queer love story between two non-Muslim Americans during the Kosovan Genocide. Jackson pulled the book when Goodreads users criticized it for misunderstanding the conflict. He posted an apology on Twitter on Thursday saying his focus was to put “queer boys of color in the center of a story” but that he “failed to understand the people and the conflict” involved in the […]
March Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s Spotlight Pick for March is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and their Featured Debut is The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. The rest of the list: The Impossible Climb, by Mark Synnott The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Lost Night, by Andrea Bartz The River, by Peter Heller A Woman Is No Man, by Etaf Rum An American Summer, by Alex Kotlowitz A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, by William Boyle Barnes & Noble‘s picks for the month include the Reid as well […]