Andie Krawczyk joined Chronicle Books as children’s marketing director. Stefanie Schroeder been promoted to publicity director for Thomas Nelson Gift and Zondervan Gift. In the UK, Emily Barrett has been promoted to editorial director for Sphere nonfiction. Fiona Rose joins as commissioning editor starting April 20. She was previously at Michael O’Mara Books. Nelle Andrew has joined the Rachel Mills Literary agency. She was at PFD and will continue working with her clients. JK Rowling believes she had COVID-19 and is now “fully recovered,” but shared on Twitter some breathing techniques recommended by a UK doctor and nurse. Kate Mattes, […]
Archives for April 2020
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Kyle Olund has joined Thomas Nelson as senior acquisitions editor for W Publishing. Most recently, he was executive editor for Worthy Books and FaithWords. UK wholesale Gardner’s has reopened their business that ships individual books to consumers on behalf of retailers, on a limited basis. Customers are limited to just one book per order, and they can only ship inventory that is already in stock. Reference Pages We have continued to update our sharable, free web pages on resources and measures the publishing community is taking. Continue to let us know as you add initiatives and information, and share these simple […]
Macmillan Starts Layoffs, Reduces Some Employees’ Pay; Barnes & Noble College Furloughs “Majority” of Staff
On Thursday afternoon, Macmillan Publishers announced that it would “implement a temporary reduction in pay for employees, as part of a larger Holtzbrinck cost-saving initiative.” They company is also “implementing a job reduction action and hiring freeze.” A spokesperson tells us, “We are doing layoffs across the organization,” but declined to specify any numbers. Among those layoffs, within St. Martin’s, is Thomas Dunne, “a legendary figure in book publishing” who has worked for the company since 1971, and began his imprint in 1986. St. Martin’s publisher Jennifer Enderlin noted that there will be “no more Thomas Dunne Books titles to […]
Assistance: Patterson Helps Indie Stores In New Campaign, PEN Increases Grants to Writers
James Patterson is making a personal donation of $500,000 to help save independent bookstores across the country, as part of a new fund to be administered by BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation) that is raising money to support stores rather than individual booksellers in need. Patterson is joining with Reese Witherspoon, as well as the ABA, in a new awareness and fundraising campaign, #SaveIndieBookstores, running through April 30. BINC will distribute the pool of funds raised to eligible independent bookstores “by May 15.” Apparently those grants will be available to ABA member stores only. The site indicates, “Funds received are […]
May Indie Next List
The ABA named its Indie Next List for May, but publication of a number of the titles, including No. 1 pick Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death In Her Hands, has been postponed . Here are the titles from the list still publishing on schedule: The Book of Longings, by Sue Monk Kidd The Paris Hours, by Alex George Hollywood Park, by Mikel Jollett All Adults Here, by Emma Straub Simon the Fiddler, by Paulette Jiles The Knockout Queen, by Rufi Thorpe The Book of V., by Anna Solomon Sea Wife, by Amity Gaige Network Effect, by Martha Wells The Fixed Stars, by Molly Wizenberg Pretty Things, by Janelle Brown A Children’s Bible, by […]
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Siobhan McBride has joined Carnicelli Literary Management as associate agent representing literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was most recently at Sobel Weber Associates. Tammy Faxel, 55, publisher at Dreamscape Media, died on March 30. She joined Dreamscape in 2014, and helped grow the company’s audiobook publishing program to over 900 titles annually. Prior to that, she led Waterfall Press for Brilliance Publishing, after working at Tyndale House and Oasis Audio. Picks Reese Witherspoon chose Untamed by Glennon Doyle as her April book club pick. Pennie’s Pick at Costco for April is a new hardcover release, The Yellow Bird […]