Book publicists Kimberly Burns, Whitney Peeling, and Michael Taeckens have partnered on Broadside, specializing in publicity and marketing for publisher-backed literary fiction and narrative nonfiction, as well as literary and mission-driven organizations and nonprofits. Each worked independently for the last several years, having most recently been employed by Random House, Perseus, and Graywolf, respectively. Director of intellectual property at Barnes & Noble for 3 years Elizabeth Brannen has joined Los Angeles law firm Stris & Maher. In the UK, Puffin UK editor Rebecca Lewis-Oakes won this year’s Kim Scott Walwyn Prize. Helen Garnons-Williams will leave Bloomsbury UK to become publishing director of Fourth Estate. At Bloomsbury, Alexa […]
Briefs: Canongate To Publish Rhodes Memoir After Winning Legal Battle; Regional Bookseller Paperbacks From Unbridled Books
Canongate will publish British classical pianist James Rhodes‘ memoir Instrumental on May 28 as an ebook and the following week in hardcover after the UK Supreme Court overturned an injunction that banned publication. The injunction resulted from a lawsuit by Rhodes’ former wife, who claimed publication of the memoir, which details Rhodes’ childhood sexual abuse by his teacher, “were so disturbing that their son [who suffers from Asperger’s Syndrome] would suffer catastrophic psychological distress if he were to read it.” In delivering the judgment Lord Toulson wrote: “There is every justification for the publication. A person who has suffered in […]
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Owner of Houston independent mystery bookshop Murder By the Book McKenna Jordan will join Minotaur Books as a dedicated outside publishing consultant to the imprint, a newly created role. Jordan will report to associate publisher Kelley Ragland, who will help Jordan make “her unique and successful experience in the positioning, selling, and marketing of mysteries and crime fiction available on an exclusive basis to Minotaur’s staff of editors and marketers.” Minotaur publisher Andy Martin said in the announcement: “Since I joined Minotaur Books in 2006, I have eagerly sought the advice of some of the great practitioners in the field […]
Fall/Winter Buzz Books Preview: Nonfiction
As usual, our free Buzz Books sampler opens with Sarah Weinman’s broader surveys of over 100 notable books from the forthcoming season. We’ll be running portions of those overviews the next few days to help round out your BEA radar — and you can read the complete previews anytime in the new editions of Buzz Books. And also as usual, publication dates may have changed, and errors are ours (as well as the ONIX feed.) In today’s installment, we look at forthcoming nonfiction. Conversation Starters Looking first at politics and current affairs, Dick Cheney surely pulls no punches in criticizing Barack […]
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Publisher of Cleis Press and founder of Viva Editions Brenda Knight is leaving the company, citing “irreconcilable differences of vision with the new ownership.” (The company was sold to Start Publishing in late 2014.) She adds, “But the authors of Cleis Press and Viva Editions are rock stars, too, and I will always be grateful to them.” Along with Knight, “the remaining original Cleis Press staff also resigned, effective immediately.” Knight plans to launch an author-centered marketing consultancy. NYT book critic Janet Maslin “has decided to leave the grind of full-time reviewing to become a contributing book critic, in which capacity […]
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In the UK, Orion ceo and Hachette UK deputy ceo David Young has officially announced his plan to retire at the end of year. Lagardere Publishing ceo Arnaud Nourry says in part: “For me, one of the great joys of Hachette’s acquisition of the Time Warner Book Group was getting to know David…. Under his leadership, the newly-created Hachette Book Group quickly grew to be one of the most successful and admired publishing houses in the US, discovering great talent and publishing many wonderful and original books and authors to global success…. I want to thank him most warmly for his friendship and support […]