We continue to present extracts from our big Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter overview, today highlighting commercial fiction. Did you download your copy yet? Get the “trade edition” from Netgalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. And don’t forget to register for our much anticipated virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening next Wednesday, May 19 at 7 PM Eastern, co-presented by the American Booksellers Association. Buzz Books Fall/Winter includes work from Mitch Albom, Noah Hawley, and Kimberly McCreight. The upcoming season will see some of the biggest names in fiction publish new books, including Liane Moriarty, Ken Follett, Nicholas […]
Archives for May 2021
Gendell Agrees to Foundry Receiver, Asks Court to Allow Sale of Agency
Former Foundry partner Yfat Reiss Gendell told the New York Supreme Court that she agrees to and joins in former partner Peter McGuigan’s request for a temporary receiver to manage the agency’s affairs. The two continue to disagree on how to oversee Foundry’s business, with each blaming the other for the obstruction. Gendell’s new filing alleges that, “McGuigan continues to refuse to pay various service providers, such as Foundry’s transactional counsel, refuses to pay for rent and utilities for Foundry’s office, and refuses to authorize Foundry to make payments on its line of credit.” Significantly, Gendell also wants the court-appointed […]
Hachette Book Group Releases 2020 Diversity Update
Hachette Book Group released its annual diversity update for 2020. The company increased staff diversity at every level, “with the largest gain in the senior managers category (director & above), which rose 31 percent” — though that echelon remains 79.5 percent white. Only 3.1 percent of that management category is Black, and 3.9 percent of the total workforce. The number of BIPOC-identifying employees increased by seven percent in the year, and other efforts including raising starting salaries to $45,000, “an important step in making our hiring practices more inclusive”; and hiring vp diversity and inclusion, Carrie Bloxson, who joined the […]
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Literary & Debut Fiction
Earlier this week we launched our Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter sampler, with excerpts from an array of great forthcoming literary and debut fiction. Did you download your copy yet? The “trade edition” is available now from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. As usual, we begin our free ebook with a broad overview of the upcoming publishing season, featuring hundreds of notable titles on the way. We’ll be presenting extracts from that season preview in the coming days. There are plenty of notable names with new books out this fall, including new work […]
People, Etc.
Karen Ma has joined the Indigo sales team at Penguin Random House Canada as sales manager. Previously, she was in sales at Harper Canada. Jessica Reid has been promoted to online & digital sales representative, focusing on Amazon sales. Hatty Stiles has been named associate rights director at Amazon Publishing. Awards The Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature, named winners. Fiebre Tropical, by Juliana Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, while 99 Erics, by Julia Serano (Switch Hitter Press) won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. A full list […]
Our Next Discuss Guests: Lynch, Hochman and Getzler
Mark your schedules for our next roster of featured guests on Wednesdays at the new PublishersMarketplace forum, Discuss. We are delighted to welcome: May 19: SVP & publisher at Flatiron Books Megan Lynch June 2: Literary agent Gail Hochman at Brandt & Hochman June 16: Literary agent Josh Getzler at HG Literary The discussions are always at Noon Eastern, and last about 30 minutes. These are straight-forward, typed, message board conversations. You don’t need any invitations, or links beyond those above. Discuss has no cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. It’s typing. Use the “reply” button to […]