People Tara Gilbert has joined the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, associate agent. She was previously associate agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. Amy Giuffrida has also joined as associate agent. She was previously literary agent apprentice at Corvisiero. At Astra Publishing House, Lisa Taylor has joined as production manager (she was at Lonely Planet Kids), and Alisa Trager moves over from Boyds Mills & Kane to serve as managing editor for Astra, working across all group imprints. Founder and publisher of Fig Tree Juliet Annan will leave the imprint at the end of October, as she pursues an MA in English […]
Archives for June 2020
Briefs
Acquisitions Welbeck Publishing Group bought the assets of mind, body and spirit publisher Eddison Books for an undisclosed sum from The Fisher Company. Welbeck will continue working with Eddison’s authors on 2020 titles and publish its 2021 list under Welbeck’s imprints. Welbeck executive director Marcus Leaver said, “Mark and I have admired from afar the books and products that Eddison has made over the years. This deal gives us the opportunity to expand Welbeck’s publishing in a new category that complements our existing publishing.”
New Books Publishing June 9
This week brings another strong showing in summer fiction, alongside new non-fiction works from Stacey Abrams and others. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-9 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_June_9/217087 4 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-9 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_9/217088 More new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-june https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_June/216958 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you […]
More Pushback: Tattered Cover Apologizes For Position of Proud Non-Engagement
Denver bookstore The Tattered Cover drew considerable criticism online from authors and booksellers after it had posted a statement on June 6.While declaring, “We agree with, embrace, and believe that black lives matter,” the owners said, but their higher value was a “nearly 50-year policy of not engaging in public debate. Our value to the community is to provide a place where access to ideas, and the free exchange of ideas, can happen in an uninhibited way. It’s not for us to determine which ideas in the pages on our shelves are valid and which are not.” They said taking stands […]
Follow-Ups: On Jemisin’s Advances, HBG’s Expanded Goals, and More
After N.K. Jemisin surprised people with her modest book advances as a part of the #PublishingPaidMe conversation — $40K for each book of Inheritance trilogy; $25K for each book of the Dreamblood trilogy; $25K for each book of the Broken Earth trilogy — we queried her publisher, Tim Holman, vp and publisher at Orbit. He said that they “wholeheartedly support the right of black writers to demand equality in the compensation for their work” and also said that the contract negotiations were “conducted in good faith and based on the circumstances at the time.” He went on, “The commercial – […]
Publishing Pushes Back: A Day of Action Protests Industry Racism, A Hashtag Reveals Low Advances for Black Authors, and More
Over the weekend, close to 1,500 people from across publishing houses, literary agencies and more added their names to a Statement of Solidarity from Workers Across Publishing, which had been posted as a public google document. Addressed to the ceos of the five largest trade publishers, a little over half of the signatories work for those companies. The statement committed to today as “a day of action in solidarity with the global uprisings in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and the many, many others in the long history of Black people murdered […]