“The [NY] Times has become a book-deal factory,” a journalist there tells Vanity Fair. “I don’t think the Times has ever seen this number of requests” from staff for book leave. The magazine reports that one of the most recent deals is Rachel Abrams and James B. Stewart writing about Les Moonves and CBS and Les Moonves, for Ann Godoff at Penguin Press. All those book deals can drain reporting resources, and staff has not necessarily been following protocol. In early May executive editor Dean Baquet and assistant managing editor Carolyn Ryan sent a memo that “was a stern and […]
Archives for May 2019
People, Etc.
Nicole Counts has been promoted to editor and publishing manager at One World. Kayleigh George has joined the William Morrow Group as marketing director, reporting to Benjamin Steinberg. She was most recently with Penguin Random House. Marketing manager Joe Scalora will now report to George. Madison Furr has been promoted to associate publicist at Macmillan Children’s. Cameron Chase will join Pippin Properties on June 10 as manager of subsidiary rights. He was senior subsidiary rights associate at Hachette Book Group. The American Booksellers Association’s board of directors appointed Tegan Tigani of Queen Anne Book Company, in Seattle, WA to fill […]
Sourcebooks Sells Minority Share to Penguin Random House
Sourcebooks has sold a 45-percent stake in the company to Penguin Random House, which will serve as “a collaborative investor” in the company. Sourcebooks founder and ceo Dominique Raccah will work directly with PRH US ceo Madeline McIntosh on the collaboration, with McIntosh and PRH’s Nina von Moltke to fill two of the five seats on a newly-created Sourcebooks board of directors. (Raccah, her husband Ray Bennett, and Sourcebooks svp Barbara Briel hold the other seats.) For now there will be “no changes in [Sourcebooks’] leadership, management, publishing autonomy, or entrepreneurial culture,” the joint announcement says, but the two companies […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction
Our season preview from our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler continues with nonfiction. This season’s notable memoirs include offerings from Julie Andrews, Augusten Burroughs, Elton John, and Patti Smith –– along with former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s book about her life and leadership, due from St. Martin’s some time in the fall. Meanwhile, our sampler features work from Nefertiti Austin (Motherhood So White); Susan Cahalan (The Great Pretender); Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl); Ben Moon (Denali); Samantha Power (The Education of an Idealist); and others. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and […]
People, Etc.: New Mantel Due March 2020
Colleen Boyle has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Press. Morgan Rath has been promoted to publicist at Macmillan Children’s. Steven Tran has been promoted to sales manager at Soho Press. Books Inc. director of operations Andy Perham will take over as president and ceo when Michael Tucker retires later this year, and operations manager George Seamer will move up to director of operations. Publicist and book marketer Claire McKinney has founded Plum Bay Publishing, providing assisted self-publishing and some traditional publishing. Hachette Book Group announced a number of promotions in its sales department. In wholesale, Julie Hernandez is promoted […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Commercial Fiction
With Book Expo just a week away, we continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. The new edition of Buzz Books includes work from Eoin Colfer, J.T. Ellison, and Meg Waite Clayton, while the full fall/winter season as previewed below also includes releases from such authors as Attica Locke, Josh Malerman, Stephen King, and more. Joe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred (Orbit, 9/17) Jeffrey Archer, Nothing Ventured (St. Martin’s, 9/10) Ace Atkins, Robert B. Parker’s Angel Eyes: A Spenser Novel (Putnam, 11/19) Linwood Barclay, Elevator Pitch (William Morrow, 9/17) Leigh Bardugo, Ninth […]