Caitlyn Dlouhy has been promoted to vice president, publisher of Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, Atheneum. Leslie Tran has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate. She was most recently children’s editorial and design intern at Abrams Books. At Charlesbridge, Yolanda Scott has been promoted to vp and publisher. Megan Bencivenni Quinn becomes vp, director of sales and marketing. Mika Kasuga has been named editorial manager of the Modern Library, while continuing as senior publishing manager for One World, reporting to Chris Jackson. Sarah Haugen has been promoted to editor at Harper and Harper Perennial. Amanda Walker has been promoted to executive […]
Archives for February 2021
New Books Publishing February 2
February kicks off with more new fiction than there are days in the month. The stellar mix includes Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee, Amy Gentry’s Bad Habits, and so many more. A broad nonfiction selection includes new titles from Adam Grant and Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, and Amelia Pang’s intriguing expose, Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods. 29 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-2 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_February_/218727 16 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-2 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_February_/218728 New children’s and YA titles publishing in February https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-february https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_in_February/218725
Firebrand and NetGalley Sold to Japan’s Media Do
Quality Solutions/Firebrand Technologies and NetGalley have been sold to Media Do International, the US-based subsidiary of Japanese ebook distribution company Media Do Ltd. Founder and ceo Fran Toolan will remain on as CEO for a minimum of three years. Media Do has been NetGalley’s reseller partner in Japan since it launched there in 2016. Media Do International ceo Daihei Shiohama says in the announcement, “We are very pleased to bring Firebrand and NetGalley into the Media Do family. We have long respected the works of the Firebrand Group, and are very excited about the prospects of working closely with them […]
February Picks
Jenna Bush Hager chose two titles for the Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club: Send For Me by Lauren Fox and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. The PBS NewsHour NYT Now Read This pick for February is Charles Yu‘s Interior Chinatown. The Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Margarita Montimore‘s Oona Out of Order. Amazon‘s February Spotlight Pick is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and the Featured Debut is How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones. The rest of the picks: The Paris Library, by Janet Skelien Charles How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, by Bill Gates […]
Bonnier Books UK Sues Former Accounting Firm for £90 Million
Bonnier Books UK has finally gotten to the bottom of their disastrous years of believing that overspending to buy growth would work — which ended in big layoffs, the abrupt dismissal of the executive that led the spree, and recapitalization from the parent company of £51 million. It now turns out the whole thing was the accountants’ fault, and the publisher is suing its former accountants for £90 million, alleging the firm was negligent in auditing its financial statements. The publisher admits in their lawsuit, filed against Haysmacintyre LLP in London’s High Court January 21, that their growth strategy was […]
People, Etc.
Elle Keck has been promoted to editor for William Morrow/Avon. Ali Herring has been promoted to literary agent at Spencerhill Associates. Dick Duane, co-owner of Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Agency, died January 28 of colon cancer. Acquisitions Prospect Park Books sold their assets, including 100 backlist titles and 11 forthcoming ones, to Turner Publishing. (The former was distributed by Ingram’s Consortium; the latter uses Ingram Publisher Services.) Founder Colleen Dunn Bates said, “Those of you who know me know how much effort I put into linking us all, and I’ve so valued every minute of it. But I’ve also worked my […]