The PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This pick for August is Maxine Hong Kingston’s THE WOMAN WARRIOR, selected by Celeste Ng. Separately, the New York Times chose 11 titles to read in August: The Dearly Beloved, by Cara Wall Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk A Door in the Earth, by Amy Waldman Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat Inconspicuous Consumption, by Tatiana Schlossberg Inland, by Tea Obreht The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa A Particular Kind of Black Man, by Tope Folarin Trick Mirror, by Jia Tolentino White Flight, by Jess Row The Yellow […]
Archives for July 2019
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Gary Jansen will join Loyola Press on August 1 as executive editor, acquisitions. Most recently, he was executive editor and director of Image Books. At Berkley, Jin Yu has been promoted to deputy director, marketing. Allison Hellegers will join Stimola Literary Studio on August 12 as literary agent and subrights director, representing middle-grade, young adult, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Previously, she was foreign rights director and US co-agent for Rights People for 10 years. Vintage Anchor publisher Anne Messitte wrote a longer remembrance of vice president, executive director of publicity and social media Russell Perreault, who died on […]
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At Orbit, Nivia Evans has been promoted to editor and Hillary Sames to assistant editor. Eva Zimmerman has joined Chronicle Children’s as publicist. Previously she freelanced, as Eva Zimmerman PR, and worked at the Perseus Book Group. KJ Grow has been promoted to publisher of Shambhala. Lauren Rosenthal has joined Pegasus Books as publicist. She was previously publicity and book marketing assistant at Hay House. Hachette UK coo Chris Emerson has resigned for “personal reasons” after 11 years with the company. Obituaries Russell Perreault, vp/executive director of publicity and social media at Vintage Anchor, died at his home in Connecticut […]
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Pamela Barricklow has joined the William Morrow Group as executive managing editor, reporting to Liate Stehlik. At Penguin Random House Audio, Taraneh Djangi has been promoted to associate director, strategic marketing; Nicole Morano to senior publicity manager; Linda Schmidt to director, project management and art/design; and Heresa Capan to director, art/design. Juliette Koronkiewicz joins as senior social media manager. Andrew LaVallee is promoted to deputy, news and features for the books desk at the New York Times. Daniel Marrs will join Ave Maria Press as vice president and editorial director on August 19. He was previously publisher of the Thomas Nelson […]
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MJ Johnston has been promoted to associate editor of Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks Landmark. Shina Patel has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Penguin Press. Rafael Chaiken has been promoted to acquisitions editor at SUNY Press, acquiring in film studies, Jewish studies, and philosophy. Carolyn Bodkin has been promoted to director, foreign rights at HarperCollins. She will expand her role to oversee foreign rights for fiction titles on the William Morrow hardcover list, in addition to all titles from Avon, Avon Impulse, William Morrow Paperbacks, Dey Street and fiction titles on the Harper trade list. Picks Ask Again, Yes by Mary […]
Pearson Focuses Hopes on 2020 for Return to Growth, While Amazon Disappoints
Pearson reported half-year results for 2019 on July 26, with sales down to £1.83 billion, from £1.87 billion the first half of last year. The sale of their US K-12 company reduced sales by £141 million, with the strengthening dollar adding £69 million. Adjusted operating profit was up to £144 million from £107 million last year. Penguin Random House, in which Pearson has a 25 percent stake, “performed in line with our expectations with revenue growth on an underlying basis due to a rise in print and audio sales, which were partially offset by lower ebook sales.” As for specific […]