At Hachette Book Group, Carrie Bloxson has been promoted to vice president and chief diversity officer. Min Lee has been promoted to executive vice president and general counsel. Stephen Mubarek has been promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer. Megan Tingley has been promoted to president and publisher, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Susan Weinberg has been promoted to executive vice president and publisher, Perseus Books.
Archives for March 2022
American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Awards
The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the 16 winners of its 2022 awards in literature.
Editorial Resignations At Big Houses Spark Reckoning
Multiple resignations from the editorial departments at two big houses caused an online reckoning on Friday. Four editors, Angeline Rodriguez and Hillary Sames at Orbit, Erin Siu at Macmillan Children’s, and Molly McGhee at Tor all announced their resignations, leading to a discussion about the workload of junior and mid-level employees and the difficulty of advancement across the industry. The online exchange brought into the open the frustrations of increased workload, burnout and turnover that have been brewing as the pandemic continues. Those feelings are intensified as big publishers report record sales and earnings, even as multiple people report on […]
More On the Control of Scholastic: Interesting History, But Don’t Expect Insight Into the Future
It seems that a number of good journalists and publications are going to waste a lot of energy raking through gossip about the late Dick Robinson and current controlling owner and chair of Scholastic, Iole Lucchese. The pretense is to inform about what might happen next at the venerated children’s publisher: “Now there may be a showdown brewing over billions of dollars in kids’ fare,” Vanity Fair puts it in the teaser for the latest version of the story, appearing in their April issue. But the claim is disingenuous since there is, and has been, no news or updates about […]
Obituary: Maureen Howard
Novelist and memoirist Maureen Howard, 91, died in New York on Sunday. Her 1978 memoir, Facts of Life, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and her novels Grace Abounding, Expensive Habits, and Natural History were all finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award. She also received a Guggenheim fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Canadian Government Allocates $32 Million to Support Online Bookselling
Minister of Canadian Heritage the Honorable Pablo Rodriguez announced The Support for Booksellers initiative, intended to help Canadian bookstores increase their ability to sell books online as a result of the pandemic. Part of the Canada Book Fund, which supports books by Canadian authors, the initiative will give $32.1 million to bookstores over two years, “for expenses related to online book sales and to help these bookstores improve their online business models.” “During the pandemic, Canadians bought more Canadian books, proving that our authors and publishers are more important than ever in sharing our stories,” Rodriguez said. “Our government is proud to […]