Alcon Publishing, the publishing division of production company Alcon Entertainment, will expand its partnership with Titan Books to publish fiction beginning in 2023. Penguin Random House will distribute the books in North America. The two companies have been working together on comics, graphic novels and art books since 2018. Four titles are already in progress, with the first, Suborbital 7 by John Shirley, publishing in March. The companies plan to publish two or three novels a year. Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, co-ceos at Alcon Entertainment, said “As a company that is deeply invested in the business of storytelling in […]
Archives for September 2022
People 9/30
At Macmillan, Meri Croft has been promoted to director, production editorial.
Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist
The NYC Center For Fiction named the shortlist for its First Novel Prize, with the winner to be announced in a ceremony on December 2.
People 9/29
At Holt, Caitlin O’Shaughnessy has been promoted to vp, associate publisher.
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It takes at least a few posts to explain just how much material we have packed into our new ebook THE TRIAL. Yes, it has the full opening and closing arguments; the full public testimony of 22 witnesses; Judge Pan’s critical (and lengthy) ruling disallowing Penguin Random House’s evidence about their projected post-merger cost savings and increased revenues; and key pre- and post-trial documents. And yes, at every step of the way it includes the Publishers Lunch overviews and analysis. But that’s not all, of course. At the end, we have culled a selection of over 100 pages of the […]
Dayton Literary Peace Prize
The winners of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize are The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for fiction and How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith for nonfiction.