Alongside more detailed corporate reporting elsewhere, Bertelsmann issued a brief first quarter trading update on Thursday, with revenues of €4.2 billion, versus €4.1 billion a year ago. Penguin Random House was among the three divisions that “delivered particularly strong performances” and “double-digit organic growth rates. (Note that topline growth at the company was far lower than the estimated “organic” growth, suggesting that foreign exchange weighed on results.) Separately, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial announced an agreement to acquire Spanish-language children’s and YA imprints Molino and Serres, along with Catalan-language imprint, La Magrana, from the RBA Group close once the relevant […]
Archives for May 2021
People, Etc.
Liese Mayer, editorial director, fiction, at Bloomsbury is leaving to freelance edit. She joined the company in 2017. Executive Director and coo Adrienne Vaughan said, “To say we will miss her is a significant understatement.” Nancy Miller has been promoted to publishing director, adult trade, and Mary Kate Castellani to publishing director, children’s trade. As part of this reorganization, the respective art departments will report to Miller and Castellani, along with managing editorial. The company will hire a new adult editorial director to oversee both fiction and nonfiction, reporting to Miller. At Insight Editions, Simon Fraser has joined the company as […]
Today at Noon: Agent and Attorney Salky in the Discuss Forum
Join agent and attorney Jesseca Salky online at PM today at noon Eastern, the latest guest on our forum Discuss, to ask questions about legal issues that face authors and agents. The discussion will happen at this link. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Jesseca will post back.
People, Etc.
At Harper Children’s, Luana Horry and Clarissa Wong have each been promoted to senior editor and Sara Schonfeld is associate editor. Vaishali Nayak is now senior manager, marketing; Katie Dutton moves up to senior marketing associate, school & library marketing; and Shaelyn McDaniel becomes assistant manager, digital marketing. Lena Reilly is promoted to associate publicist; Caitlin Lonning to senior production editor; and Kat Keating to senior digital production editor. In new hires, Erin Hamling has joined as senior production editor (she was previously a development editor at Oxford University Press). At Penguin Random House Audio, Ellen Folan has joined as director […]
New Books Publishing May 4
Maggie Shipstead, Rachel Cusk, Chris Bohjalian, and Andy Weir lead this week’s new fiction releases (along with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Good Company — which you can sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer anthology), while new nonfiction includes titles from Michael Lewis, Juliana Margulies, Anna Sale, and Casey Wilson: 24 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-May-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_May_/219327 18 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_May_/219328 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 […]
This Week’s Discuss Guest: Agent and Attorney Jesseca Salky
Join agent and attorney Jesseca Salky to ask questions about legal issues that face authors and agents at noon on Wednesday, May 5 as our next weekly AMA guest on the PM forum Discuss. Feel free to post your questions for Jesseca in advance; the discussion will happen at this link. This is a straight forward, typed message board conversation. Discuss has no cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Jesseca will post back. While all of these conversations are scheduled and conducted live on our site, everything […]