Recently-fired deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe recently sold a book proposal…to someone, represented by Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management, reported by the NYT and confirmed by unsuccessful bidders. Next Tuesday’s release of Amy Chozick‘s CHASING HILLARY: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling has already drawn a pre-pub review in the Washington Post and coverage in the Daily Beast. Chozick reports Clinton as unsurprised when told she had lost the election to Trump: “I knew it. I knew this would happen to me,” Chozick quotes her as saying. “They were never going to let me be […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Becky Saikia-Wilson has been promoted to svp, trade associate publisher. Lyndsay Calusine has been promoted to lead designer on the creative services, design and promotion team. Penny Scott-Bayfield will join Bloomsbury as group finance director on July 16, taking over from Wendy Pallot, who will step down on that day. Scott-Bayfield is currently finance director at Conde Nast Britain. Mary Cate Stevenson and Noah Nofz, who operate a Houston, TX-based digital media marketing company Two Cats Communications, started working for the ABA in March as part-time social media coordinators. Book Expo Book Expo announced two new panels: […]
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At Workman Publishing, Page Edmunds has been promoted to executive associate publisher; Danny Cooper becomes editor; Kylie McDonald move up to senior editor, director of cookbooks; Rachael Mt. Pleasant has been promoted to editor; Megan Nicolay becomes executive editor; and Maisie Tivnan moves up to executive editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a number of recent promotions in their sales department. Colleen Murphy has been promoted to vp, special markets, mass market sales, and product development. Ed Spade, has been appointed director, digital sales, strategy and business development. James Phirman has been promoted to national accounts director, mass market, and Jaclyn Sassa moves up to associate sales representative. McGraw-Hill Education named Dr. […]
Harper’s Magazine Fires Editor James Marcus
Subsequent to our brief note from Monday that Harper’s Magazine editor James Marcus has left the publication, Marcus tells PL that he was fired on Friday afternoon, for “opposing the publication of Katie Roiphe’s cover story in the March issue.” The article, “The Other Whisper Network: How Twitter feminism is bad for women,” drew criticism online in January before it was published, over suggestions that Roiphe intended to reveal the identity of the creator of the “Sh—y Media Men” list. That controversy led to the list’s creator Moira Donegan identifying herself in her own article for The Cut. Marcus gave us […]
People, Etc.: McGuire to Lead Atria
Libby McGuire has been named senior vice president and publisher of the Atria Publishing Group, starting April 30 and reporting to Jonathan Karp. She has been a literary agent at The Gernert Company since early 2017, and was and executive vice president and publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell, where she worked for 16 years, until late 2015. Karp said, “Libby McGuire is one of the most dynamic and successful publishers in our industry. I have had the pleasure of working closely with her in the past, and was an eyewitness to her creativity, acuity, warmth, collaborative nature, and passion for publishing. Her […]
Greer Is Surprise Pulitzer Fiction Winner
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with LESS by Andrew Sean Greer winning the fiction prize. (Christopher Buckley had written in the NYT last July: “Convulsed in laughter a few pages into Andrew Sean Greer’s fifth novel, Less, I wondered with regret why I wasn’t familiar with this author. My bad. His admirers have included John Updike, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and John Irving. Less is the funniest, smartest and most humane novel I’ve read since Tom Rachman’s 2010 debut, The Imperfectionists.”) LESS is the rare fiction winner that was not prominent among other awards nominees or “best of the year” […]