Following a successful year, and in response to the rising cost of living, Bloomsbury increased their annual salary increase for employees in all territories to 5 percent. They will also give staff a bonus of up to 6 percent, a program that reportedly began last year. A spokesperson told The Bookseller: “Our staff will share in this success and this year’s review has been conducted considering both the company’s success and the cost of living crisis. We also have an interim September pay review to ensure those staff who joined later in the financial year are included.” Separately, Pearson announced […]
Publishing Has More Open Positions, But Hiring Is a Challenge
Like many other businesses at this stage of the pandemic, book publishing is seeing a tentative return to physical offices accompanied by an unequivocal surge in recruiting and hiring. Statistics and informal reports suggest a variety of factors of work: Catching up from a big lag in hiring in 2020, hiring for new skills and capabilities in the remote work environment, expanding staff due to everything from extraordinary growth to DEI initiatives, and filling roles vacated due to staff resignations. We took a look at our own data from PM’s industry-leading job board and spoke to a number of companies […]
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Former publisher at Two Roads, Lisa Highton joins Jenny Brown Associates as associate agent, based in London with frequent visits to Scotland, representing both fiction and narrative nonfiction.
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Jessica Calagione has joined Zando as counsel, contracts & business affairs. She was previously at Anonymous Content.
Waterstones Children’s Book Prize
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold, won the £5,000 Waterstones Children's Book Prize.
Obituary: Ted Mooney
Novelist Ted Mooney died on March 22 after living with heart disease. He was 70. Mooney was a longtime editor of Art in America and his novel Easy Travel to Other Planets was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.