Thanks for the nice feedback on our updated Lunch design (and remember to expect Weekly and Daily Deals to switch over to the new format next week). Our development pipeline has been especially busy lately and today we are rolling out a new site refinement we hope you will find useful. Ever since we launched the Dealmakers interface, it has been our most-visited data collection in the aggregate. All along, the Dealmaker lists have surfaced the most active buyers and sellers across about 70 categories and sub-categories. As the industry has finally started to diversify more meaningfully, we wanted to […]
Archives for June 2021
Introducing Our Summer Discuss Guests
Pamela Dorman, vice president and publisher of Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, joins as us as the next of our featured regular guests in the new PM user forum, Discuss, Wednesday, July 7 at noon, ET. Stacey Barney, associate publisher, Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books and executive editor, Putnam Children’s, follows on Wednesday, July 21, with Patrice Caldwell, agent and author wrapping up our summer schedule on August 4. Here are a few sample questions to get you started: how an agent can get around issue of editors who are overwhelmed by submissions. agented submissions vs. direct submissions, as well as tips on direct […]
People 6/23
Forthcoming
I ALONE CAN FIX IT: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and authors of A Very Stable Genius Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker will be published by Penguin Press on July 20. The book promises “deep and unparalleled sources, many on the record for the first time—including a wide-ranging and revealing interview with President Trump himself.”
Hilderbrand to Retire from Fiction Writing in 2024
Elin Hilderbrand tells the AP that she plans to retire from writing novels in 2024, indicating that she wants to stop while her work is in demand. “A lot of people will follow a writer for a long time and then inevitably they will turn out a book that is not as good as the others,” Hilderbrand told the AP last month. “I’ve always said to myself, ‘I will not do that. I will make each book better and better or different in some way.’ I feel myself coming to my natural end of my material.” While Hilderbrand will definitely […]
UNC Press Chair Denied Reappointment
Professor Eric Muller, chair of the University of North Carolina Press Board of Governors, announced on Twitter that the university’s board of governors has, in an unprecedented move, denied his reappointment to the board. Muller has served two five-year terms on the board, six of which as chairman. “I would hate to think it had something to do with my public commentary in recent years on matters of law, race, and history,” he wrote. “I would hate to think it had something to do with my focusing public attention on ways in which the law has ignored and harmed the […]