The Authors Guild Foundation announced a $10 million “capacity building” campaign—the largest ever for the organization. The foundation has already received more than $5.6 million from prominent authors including David and Michelle Baldacci, Suzanne Collins and Charles “Cap” Pryor, John and Renee Grisham, James Patterson, and Doug and Christine Preston, who pledged to donate $1 million each. The organization says that $3 million will go “to increase services, legal and support staff, and advocacy initiatives,” and $7 million will fund an endowment “to support the Guild in perpetuity.” Other major donors so far include Judy Blume, who has designated her […]
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Sonali Fry has been promoted to VP, publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers and executive director, Little Tiger.
Obituary: Tina Cameron
Simon & Schuster senior production manager Tina Cameron died on January 20. Cameron worked at HarperCollins and Abrams before joining S&S in 2017 as senior production manager for distribution clients. In a memo to staff, executive director, production Lisa Erwin said, “Tina will be remembered as a consummate professional: knowledgeable, eager to do a good job, and especially dedicated to our clients. Her can-do attitude was a great asset to the production department. She will be greatly missed here at Simon & Schuster by her colleagues and clients alike. Most of all, we will remember Tina as a good friend, […]
Ghostwriters Gather To Discuss A Booming Industry
On a freezing morning in January, 136 ghostwriters assembled on the Upper East Side to speak with ground-breaking openness about a corner of publishing that has often been misunderstood. The first ever day-long Gathering of the Ghosts conference, hosted by Gotham Ghostwriters at The New York Academy of Medicine, drew some of the top professionals in the field, who spent the day schmoozing, chatting candidly about their work, and exchanging information. Gotham Ghostwriters ceo Dan Gerstein, who organized the event, told PL, “Our immediate goal is to build a greater sense of community and connectivity within the field—which mostly works […]
Hugo Awards Statistics Raise Questions About ‘Ineligible’ Works
This weekend, a comprehensive document of voting statistics for the 2023 Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards was released—standard practice for the sci-fi awards that are given annually at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). But as those in the sci-fi community looked into the details, they seem anything but standard. In June, many readers were surprised to see that R.F. Kuang’s BABEL—which won the Nebula and Locus awards—was not among the finalists for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. The newly-released document notes that BABEL, despite getting the third most nominating votes, was found ineligible for the award. It is unclear […]