At PRH, Chelsea Vaughn is stepping down as vp, director of publishing operations, business process and support on September 30 to spend more time with her family. Janet Rasche is appointed svp, director of publishing support, returning to the company after a nine-year absence, most recently at Macmillan as vp, operations planning.
New Books Publishing July 20
Katie Kitamura, Chuck Wendig, Rachel Yoder, and Karin Slaughter lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes I ALONE CAN FIX IT, THE CULT OF WE and more. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-20-efeded05-b50e-4ba9-8be5-cb8f5f6064e8 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_July_/219576 7 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-20 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_July_/219577 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least 3 months prior […]
Forthcoming: PRH to Publish Prince Harry Memoir Globally
Random House will publish a memoir by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex in “late 2022,” with a simultaneous audiobook edition released by Penguin Random House Audio. Penguin Random House Canada will publish in Canada, and Transworld will publish in the UK, with additional territories to be announced. Page Six says that Harry has been writing for nearly a year with author and ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer (who wrote books with Andre Agassi and Phil Knight), who they say “is getting at least $1 million as an advance.” The column says the manuscript, initially due in August, is now expected in […]
People 7/19
Jackie Kim has joined Hay House as marketing director overseeing book marketing and PR.
Publishing Rethinks Its Use of “#OwnVoices”
In June, nonprofit children’s book organization We Need Diverse Books (WNDB) announced that it would stop using the term #OwnVoices, in favor of authors’ specific descriptions of themselves and their characters. WNDB said that use of the term has forced authors to self-identify in ways that are uncomfortable or dangerous; some diverse identities, such as disability or LGBTQ identities, aren’t self-evident. The hashtag has also become a way to police marginalized writers, “questioning authors who do have lived experience about whether they ‘count’ as ‘diverse enough’ to write about that specific community (for example, in making multiracial or bi+/pansexual authors […]
People 7/16
Daniel Marrs has joined nonfiction imprint Nelson Books as associate publisher. He was most recently at Ave Maria Press.