Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/Defiore Agency will represent Disney Publishing Group for translation licensing.
Archives for January 2022
Politics and Prose Workers Successfully Unionize
The Politics and Prose employees’ union has been officially recognized, the store and UFCW Local 400 announced in a joint statement. Store owners Bradley Graham and Lissa Muscatine and the union will now negotiate a contract. According to DCist, Graham and Muscatine voluntarily recognized the union, which has 54 members in three store locations, on December 31 after previously deciding they would wait until a formal vote. In a release, Graham and Muscatine said: “As stewards of a local, independent business with a 37-year legacy of progressive management and mission, we’ve valued collaborating with employees to solve problems and address […]
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At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to assistant director of publicity. Brennin Cummings has been promoted to senior marketing manager.
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Mary Man-Kong has been to senior executive editor at Random House Children's.
January Picks
Amazon and Barnes & Nobel announced their picks for January.
Obituaries: Ben McFall, Peter Shepherd
Ben McFall, 73, the Strand bookstore’s longest-tenured bookseller, died on December 22 at his home in Jersey City. Peter Shepherd, 91, literary agent at Harold Ober Associates from 1971 to 1995, died at his home in St. James Long Island on December 28. Among his clients were the estates of F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner, New Yorker writers Joseph Mitchell and Whitney Balliet, and journalists Robert Sam Anson and John Maxwell Hamilton. He also served as president of the Association of Authors Representatives.