• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.

June 18, 2019
By Erin Somers

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that evp and chief learning officer Rosamund Else-Mitchell will leave effective June 28. She will receive a year’s salary, among other benefits. An agreement between the parties “also provides for a release of certain claims by Ms. Else-Mitchell against the company, mutual non-disparagement obligations, certain confidentiality requirements, and non-competition and non-solicitation restrictions for a period of 12 months.”

Shannon Donnelly has joined Diversion Books as marketing manager.

Kandi Rich has joined Sourcebooks as graphic designer.

Molly Koecher will join Longleaf Services as operations manager. She was previously vice president and general manager of Sunrise River Press, Specialty Press, and CarTech Auto Books. She succeeds B.J. Smith, who is retiring.

After Nicholas Sparks‘ first statement regarding the disclosure of offensive emails he wrote while battling with the headmaster of his Epiphany School fell flat, the author posted an apology on Twitter. It starts: “As someone who has spent the better part of my life as a writer who understands the power of words, I regret and apologize that mine have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community.” Later in the statement he says his “greatest regret” is “that I failed to be more unequivocal about my support for the students in question.”

Obituary
Molly O’Neill, 66, food writer and author of The New York Cookbook and the memoir Mostly True, died on Sunday in Manhattan.

Bookselling
Book Passage will close its Sausalito, CA location, its third, opened in 2016 near the terminal to the San Francisco ferry. Owners say the store was underperforming. Employees will move over to the other locations.

Awards
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Harper Collins/Electric Monkey) won the UK’s Carnegie Medal, the first writer of color to win in the prize’s 83-year history. The Lost Words illustrated by Jackie Morris and written by Robert Macfarlane (Anansi International/Hamish Hamilton) won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration.

Filed Under: Awards, Bookstores, Free, Obits, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Boris Johnson Received £510,000 As First Advance on His Memoirs January 27, 2023 Parliamentary Disclosure
  • Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's Literary Archives Acquired by New York Public Library January 27, 2023 NYT
  • R.F. Kuang's Next Novel Yellowface "Does deal a lot with underpaid, undervalued, entry-level employees in publishing" January 26, 2023 NYT interview
  • Daily Beast Obtains Mark Pomerantz's NDA and Contract with the Manhattan DA's Office January 26, 2023 DB
  • Murdochs Withdraw Proposal to Combine News Corp. and Fox January 25, 2023 Press Release
  • Striking HarperCollins Union Featured on NPR January 24, 2023 KMUW
  • A New Trump Attorney Threatens Mark Pomerantz Over His Forthcoming Book from S&S January 23, 2023 Letter, Via TMZ
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger Said to Have Deal for "Motivational" Book with Penguin Press January 21, 2023 Page Six
  • Judy Blume Documentary Premieres at Sundance January 20, 2023 THR
  • ComixOlogy Staff Said to be Hard Hit by Amazon Layoffs January 19, 2023 Tiwtter/CBR
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.