The ABA‘s annual meeting and town hall, set to take place this afternoon, has been postponed to July 14 at 2:00. Elsewhere, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announced that it will take place March 6-9 2023.
Archives for May 2022
Literary Agent Mort Janklow Dies at 91
Chairman and co-founder of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, Morton L. Janklow died Wednesday morning at home in Water Mill, NY from heart failure. An attorney, he launched his career as a literary agent in 1972 when his friend and client, William Safire, asked him to handle a book he was writing about Richard Nixon. As the agency adds in a release, “When the Watergate scandal broke and the book’s publisher, William Morrow, tried to back out of the contract, Janklow sued, ushering in a new era of authors’ rights; he later sold the book to Doubleday. ‘We took the publisher […]
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Obituary: Lawrence David
Author and former Random House Children’s editor Lawrence David died on May 7. He was the author of the novels Family Values and Need, plus 18 picture books and the middle grade series Horace Splattly.
Panel: What Does A Healthy Publishing Industry Look Like?
At a US Book Show session on Tuesday titled “What Does a Healthy Publishing Industry Look Like?,” panelists addressed persistent challenges including supply chain issues, burnout, and getting attention for new books and authors during the pandemic. Moderated by Astra House senior editor Daniel Vazquez, it featured Donya Craddock, co-owner of The Dock Bookshop; Morgan Entrekin, ceo and publisher of Grove Atlantic; Mary Rasenberger, ceo of The Authors Guild & The Authors Guild Foundation; and Joe Matthews, ceo of Independent Publishers Group. The panelists cited pandemic-related obstacles in every corner of the business. Entrekin mentioned the difficulty of “trying to […]
“It’s a Book, Not a Kidney On Ice”: Panelists Discuss Urgency, Burnout, and Supporting Employees
“Everything was fine until the pandemic when we all started questioning our existence,” said moderator Paul Bogaards, former Knopf evp of publicity and marketing and owner of Bogaards Public Relations, opening a US Book Show panel on The Pandemic and Publishing: How Has Covid Changed the Industry for Good? With panelists Jennifer Enderlin, president and publisher of St. Martin’s Publishing Group; Monica Odom, founder and literary agent at Odom Media Management; Anjali Singh, agent at Ayesha Pande Literary; and Julia Sommerfeld, publisher at Amazon Publishing, Bogaards posed questions without easy answers and speakers discussed the dualities of the publishing industry […]