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Distribution: UDON Entertainment
Art book and graphic novel publisher UDON Entertainment will be distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster, for frontlist and backlist titles, starting April 1. UDON was previously distributed by Diamond Book Distributors. Specialty comic book stores can also order UDON titles from Lunar Distribution, Universal Distribution, and Diamond Comics Distribution.
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist
Author Sues S&S, Vigliano For Allegedly Stealing His Book Project
Fox News legal commentator and author of The Russia Hoax Gregg Jarrett has filed suit in New York’s Supreme Court against Simon & Schuster and his agents at Vigliano Associates for allegedly taking his book project and having another author write it. According to the complaint, in late 2023 executive editor Natasha Simons reached out to Jarrett about writing a new book on current events. Jarrett suggested a book about the “lawfare” legal cases against Donald Trump and agreed to hire a research assistant for the project, fellow Vigliano client Alex Marlow, in order to get it out before the […]
Obituary: Tim Mohr
Author, co-author, and translator Tim Mohr, 55, died on March 31 in New York from pancreatic cancer, Rolling Stone reports. Mohr co-authored Duff McKagan’s It’s So Easy (and other lies), Paul Stanley’s Face the Music: A Life Exposed, and Genesis P-Orridge’s Nonbinary, and completed Gil Scott-Heron’s posthumous memoir The Last Holiday. He published his solo nonfiction book, Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, in 2018. Executive publisher of Europa Editions Michael Reynolds said, “I loved and admired Tim for his eloquence, his moral compass, his large, rebel heart, his consummate cool. He had […]