At PRH, Chelsea Vaughn is stepping down as vp, director of publishing operations, business process and support on September 30 to spend more time with her family. Janet Rasche is appointed svp, director of publishing support, returning to the company after a nine-year absence, most recently at Macmillan as vp, operations planning.
Archives for July 2021
New Books Publishing July 20
Katie Kitamura, Chuck Wendig, Rachel Yoder, and Karin Slaughter lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes I ALONE CAN FIX IT, THE CULT OF WE and more. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-20-efeded05-b50e-4ba9-8be5-cb8f5f6064e8 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219576 7 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-20 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219577 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 our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior […]
Forthcoming: PRH to Publish Prince Harry Memoir Globally
Random House will publish a memoir by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex in “late 2022,” with a simultaneous audiobook edition released by Penguin Random House Audio. Penguin Random House Canada will publish in Canada, and Transworld will publish in the UK, with additional territories to be announced. Page Six says that Harry has been writing for nearly a year with author and ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer (who wrote books with Andre Agassi and Phil Knight), who they say “is getting at least $1 million as an advance.” The column says the manuscript, initially due in August, is now expected in […]
People 7/19
Jackie Kim has joined Hay House as marketing director overseeing book marketing and PR.
Our Next Live Discuss Guest, Publisher/Editor Stacey Barney
Join us Wednesday, July 21 at noon eastern to ask associate publisher at Nancy Paulsen Books for Young Readers Stacey Barney your questions. She joins us as the next of our featured regular guests in the new PM user forum, Discuss. Stacey will be our first editorial guest focused on children’s books, so ask away and feel free to post questions in advance.
Obituary
Founder of Scholastic’s Cartwheel imprint and author Bernette G. Ford, 70, died June 20 of lung cancer. As the NYT notes, she “was a leading advocate of making children’s books more diverse and making sure that people of color had opportunities to write and illustrate them.” Ford joined Scholastic in 1989 and “was among the first Black executives at a major children’s book publisher.” In 2002 she formed Color-Bridge Books, which consulted on and packaged books for children. Wade Hudson of Just Us Books called Ford “an unsung hero in the push to bring more people of color into children’s book […]