Former editorial director at Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks Cal Morgan will join Riverhead as vp, executive editor. Riverhead president and publisher Geoffrey Kloske said in the announcement: “I’ve always admired Cal’s innovative literary vision and passion for books and publishing. After a few decades of competing against him I’m thrilled to have him join the community at Riverhead.” Morgan joins Riverhead after more than 14 months away from trade publishing; he left HarperCollins, where he was also executive editor at Harper, “to take a pause” in November 2015 after more than 16 years with the company. Denise Silvestro will join Kensington […]
Simon & Schuster Cancels Milo’s DANGEROUS
Just one week after the publication date for Milo Yiannopoulos’s DANGEROUS was pushed back from March 14 to June 13 at the author’s request (while he appeared to admit he had yet to “submit the manuscript”), Simon & Schuster cancelled publication of the book. The company’s statement, issued Monday afternoon, reads in full: “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.” That decision came after the revelation over the weekend of comments from January 2016 in which Milo appeared to approve of men having sex with underage boys. Simon & Schuster’s announcement […]
Briefs: Finally, A Paperback Edition for All The Light We Cannot See; ALA’s Book Club Central; and More
Just under 3 years after it was first published in hardcover, Scribner will release Anthony Doerr‘s All the Light We Cannot See in trade paperback, on April 4. The book has “more than 4 million copies in circulation across all formats in North America.” (Though it is worth nothing that Simon & Schuster Canada published a paperback edition in November 2014.) Doerr will tour for the paperback release, including visits to Phoenix, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Austin, Kansas City, Chicago, Portsmouth, N.H., Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Raleigh. Announcements The American Library Association a set of online resources called Book Club Central and has enlisted actor […]
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Tara Greico joins Random House Children’s Books as marketing coordinator, licensed & proprietary brands. She was previously marketing assistant at Simon & Schuster. At Dutton, Emily Brock has been promoted to senior publicist. Susan Hershberg and Wes Seeley have both joined Princeton Architectural Press as publicity managers. Previously, Hershberg was associate director of publicity at America’s Test Kitchen. Seeley was publicity and marketing manager at Hal Leonard. JK Rowling was in a new Twitter brawl with Piers Morgan over the weekend after she noted “how much she had enjoyed watching Morgan being attacked by a forthright panel of commentators in an […]
Kate Morton and Former Agent Sue Each Other Over Backlist Commissions
Australian author Kate Morton, author of a number of internationally bestselling novels including The Shifting Fog and The Lake House, and her former agent Selwa Anthony have sued each other over the fate of future commissions from Morton’s backlist. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, which obtained Anthony’s original lawsuit and Morton’s counter-claim, the conflict began when Morton fired Anthony in December 2015 after more than 10 years of representation. Morton then retained Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates, to represent new and future works and also to “manage the royalty flow from her backlist.” Anthony sued Morton, claiming the pair […]
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At Picador USA, executive director of publicity James Meader will give up his additional role as publicist-at-large at Holt to focus exclusively on Picador. In addition, Molly Fessenden has been promoted to marketing associate. Molly Jaffa, currently subsidiary rights manager and literary agent at Folio Literary Management, will join Mary Anne Thompson Associates as a senior scout on March 7. Amy Nathanson Heaslip has joined the Highlights for Children retail group as managing editor. Most recently, Heaslip was executive editor at Studio Fun International. Former vice president Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden have signed with CAA for representation “across […]