Devil’s Due Comics will be sold and distributed by Simon & Schuster starting July 1.
Archives for July 2021
Forthcoming: Spears’ Premature Title
Jamie Lynn Spears will publish a memoir on January 18, 2022, announced on Friday by HBG’s Worthy Publishing through their ONIX feed and on the company website. The news was controversial because they had the book titled, I MUST CONFESS: Family, Fame, and Figuring It Out, quoting a line from sister Britney’s “…Baby One More Time”. The publisher said they accidentally pushed out “incorrect and incomplete information,” claiming to People magazine, “This was a placeholder title for internal use only.” The titled has been refreshed on some bookselling sites to MY STORY, though various versions of the original feed are […]
Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List
People 7/9
William Plunkett has been promoted to the newly created position of assistant manager, sales.
Duke Management Petitions To Invalidate University Press Union Vote
The June vote among Duke University Press employees on forming a union resulted in 35 votes in favor and 31 against, with 8 challenged ballots still to be adjudicated. Duke University and the management of the press have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to invalidate the vote to unionize and convene a new election at an unspecified later date. The effort to unionize began in March. Objections in the petition include Zoom issues during the virtual counting process; a change to the ballot count date; and a complaint that the union “failed to include return postage on its initially […]
People 7/8
Longtime editor acquiring for both Pantheon and Knopf since 1990, Erroll McDonald will now work exclusively as vp, executive editor at Knopf, reporting to Reagan Arthur. At Workman, SarahMay Harel has been promoted to assistant director, website operations. Mike Moglia joins as coordinator, digital operations. He was previously with the academic trade division at Oxford University Press. At Amazon, Hai-Yen Mura has been named publisher and head of marketing. Julia Sommerfeld becomes publisher.