Marysue Rucci’s eponymous imprint with Scribner will launch in summer 2022 with four titles — Mother Noise: A Memoir by Cindy House and The Foundling by Ann Leary, both out in May, and Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark and The Last to Vanish by Megan Miranda, both publishing in July. Additional forthcoming titles include The Queen from Another Country by Alice Hoffman, Rouge by Mona Awad, and two new novels by Laura Dave. “It’s a thrill and honor to launch my imprint at Scribner, with its illustrious history, extraordinary team, and commitment to publishing enduring works,” Rucci said. “As evidenced […]
Archives for October 2021
Printed Matter Bookstore Unionizes
Employees at Printed Matter, a nonprofit art book store in New York, joined the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153. Management voluntarily recognized the union on October 18, and contract bargaining will begin soon. In an Instagram post, the union said, “We’re so excited about this big next step and are grateful that Printed Matter management has been cooperative and proud of our decision so far. “We see books and multiples as inherently non-hierarchical art forms, and this has shaped the collaborative and radical organizational history of Printed Matter. So many of the values Printed Matter represents within […]
People: Mitzi Angel to Become President of FSG
Mitzi Angel will be promoted to president of FSG, effective January 1, 2022, only the third president in the house’s 75-year history. She rejoined FSG from Faber & Faber as publisher in 2018. Jonathan Galassi will step down as president, taking on the newly created role of chairman and executive editor. Angel will report to Macmillan president Jonathan Yaged, and Galassi will report to both Angel and Yaged. Angel told the NYT, “The thing about publishing is that it’s a business, and yet it’s also more than a business. FSG is an institution, it’s a cultural institution, so as well […]
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021
Publishers Weekly announced their Best Books of 2021 in a variety of categories.
People 10/22
Adrienne Vaughan has been promoted to president of Bloomsbury Publishing.
Bestselling YA Authors Announce — And Then Withdraw — Realms of Ruin, As Community Says NFW to NFT Storyworld
Talk about disruption. It began as a splashy announcement tease: On Wednesday, young adult authors Marie Lu, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Adam Silvera, David Yoon, and Nicola Yoon declared in a deleted post on Instagram (and elsewhere) the imminent arrival on November 8 of Realms of Ruin, a “fantasy epic filled with dark magic, intrigue, and unique characters–launched online in a thrilling new way.” That new way, however, was quickly found to be less than thrilling among many people online. The plan was for community writing to be turned into “a robust collection of original character NFTs [non fungible tokens]…all […]