Tara Kennedy has joined Legacy Lit as publicity director. She was previously publicity director at Bloomsbury.
Archives for July 2022
Dialogue Books to Become Separate Division At Hachette UK
Dialogue Books, which is currently an imprint of Little, Brown UK, will expand and break out as standalone division at Hachette UK. Publisher and founder Sharmaine Lovegrove will lead the expansion. She has been promoted to managing director, and will join the company’s board, both effective when she returns from maternity leave on September 1. The unit aims to publish 80 books a year by 2026, a significant increase. According to the announcement, the new version of the line will include two imprints: the upmarket literary fiction and non-fiction Dialogue Books, as well “a new, as-yet-unnamed imprint focusing on commercial and […]
Disability in Publishing Launches With Virtual Event
Disability in Publishing, an organization founded by and for disabled publishing professionals that began on Twitter late last year, will officially launch with an event this month. The organization’s mission is “to create community, provide resources, and increase accessibility across the industry in order to increase disability visibility and retain the talent of disabled publishing professionals. We will support each other through advocacy, education, networking, and community,” their website says. In a virtual town hall on July 22, Disability in Publishing will discuss its goals and mission, introduce its founding members, and field questions.
HarperCollins Workers to Strike For One Day On July 20
HarperCollins union, which is made up of more than 250 employees, announced that they will strike for one day on July 20. The union has been negotiating since December for “higher pay, improved family leave benefits, a greater commitment to diversifying staff, and stronger union protection.” Union chairperson and senior production editor in Children’s Books Laura Harshberger said, “Thousands of supporters in the publishing industry joined our members in signing a petition to the company urging them to settle a fair contract. We have no choice but to escalate our action by setting this one-day strike.” A representative for HarperCollins […]
Second Quarter Deals
After a strong first quarter — perhaps buoyed by relatively early calendar returns for live versions of the Bologna (March 21) and London (April 5) book fairs — deal reports in the US for the second quarter hewed more closely to the sales pattern for print books as measured by NPD Bookscan. In other words, deal volume was down compared to a record-smashing second quarter in 2021, declining 9.1 percent, but was still well ahead of previous years (and 8 percent better than in 2019, which had been a peak period). And even though total deal volume fell, reported six-figure […]