Kyle Gipson will join Basic Books on January 4 as associate editor. Most recently, he was an assistant acquisitions editor at Johns Hopkins University Press. At Random House Children’s Joshua Redlich has been promoted to publicity manager. Aaron Reese has joined as a senior marketing manager, digital content. Previously, he was a freelance writer and editor. Vincent Perez has joined as a production associate. He was previously production coordinator at Marvel Entertainment. Angelique Tran Van Sang will join Felicity Bryan Associates as an agent in March. She is currently commissioning editor at Bloomsbury UK. The NYT rounds up some advance numbers […]
Archives for November 2020
Williams’ How to Fail at Flirting Tops December Library Reads
Denise Williams’ How to Fail at Flirting is the top pick for the December Library Reads list. Read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020: Romance sampler. The rest of the list: The Arctic Fury, by Greer Macallister How to Catch a Queen, by Alyssa Cole Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder, by T. A. Willberg Pretty Little Wife, by Darby Kane This Time Next Year, by Sophie Cousens Take It Back, by Kia Abdullah Ten Rules for Faking It, by Sophie Sullivan Ten Things I Hate About the Duke, by Loretta Chase The Wrong Family, by Tarryn Fisher
Frankfurt Book Fair Plans Restructuring and Layoffs, Further “Modernization”
The Frankfurt Book Fair, which employees a robust staff year-round, announced “a restructuring program for its operating company” that will include both layoffs and organizational changes. “It is already clear that the existing structures are to be streamlined, for example by merging departments. This will also involve job cuts,” they said in a statement. The changes follow the cancellation of this year’s live fair, and continuing uncertainty over the effect of the pandemic on future events: “As a result of the COVID-19-related loss of income this year and the uncertain planning perspective, the available restructuring options are currently being examined. […]
Briefs: New Books From Franzen and Bridges, Chronicle Expands In Games and Toys
Forthcoming FSG will publish a new novel by Jonathan Franzen, titled CROSSROADS, the first in his trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, in October 2021. The publisher writes that the novel is “the beginning of a story that encompasses all the ‘mythologies’—the political, religious, and intellectual crosscurrents—that have animated and troubled American life in recent decades.” FSG president Jonathan Galassi said, “Franzen has been universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, an inheritor of Steinbeck and Faulkner. He has been telling us the inner history of contemporary America in novel after novel, from The Twenty-Seventh City to The Corrections to Freedom, culminating now […]
Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year
Barnes & Noble released a list of eight nominees for their best book of 2020, selected by booksellers across the country, from which they’ll choose one title. Among the picks are both Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, and Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, both featured and previewed ahead of publication in our Buzz Books collections this year. The rest of the list: Accidentally Wes Anderson, by Wally Koval Pieometry, by Lauren Ko Stamped, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Untamed, by Glennon Doyle Wintering, by Katherine May World of Wonders, by Aimee Nezhukumatathill Last year, somehow booksellers at […]
Deed Shows Sale Price for Quad’s West Virginia Plant
When Quad sold their two remaining book printing plants to Bertelsmann’s Berryville Graphics on October 31, the details of the sale were not provided. Now the Herald-Mail reports that a deed recording the sale, filed with the County Clerk’s office on Tuesday, indicates that Berryville paid $11.3 million for the facility in Martinsburg, West Virginia. (They also purchased a plant of similar size in Fairfield, PA.) Bertelsmann Printing Group vp John Twomey, indicated that the Martinsburg plant has about 200 employees, as does the facility in Pennsylvania, with employment “down about one-third from pre-COVID-19 levels.” They add, “The major change […]