Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, whose 2012 book NO EASY DAY (published under the pseudonym Mark Owen) disclosed details of the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden and who is set to publish a new book, NO HERO, under the same pen name on November 10, is under criminal investigation from the Department of Justice for allegedly revealing classified material, his lawyer and federal officials told the NYT. Bissonnette’s lawyer Robert Luskin believes the investigation stems from the book itself, even after “he thought he had reached an agreement in the spring with Justice Department and Pentagon officials to settle […]
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At the Random House Publishing Group, Annette Melvin has been promoted to director, creative services. Countryman Press announced a number of new hires and promotions. Ann Treistman has been promoted to editorial director. Dan Crissman has joined as senior editor. Previously, he was senior editor at Overlook. Finally, Devorah Backman has been hired as publicity and marketing associate. She was previously at Weinstein Books. Nathalie Le Du has joined Workman Publishing as a senior editor in the children’s group, overseeing the workbooks and activity books program (including Brain Quest and Star Wars Workbooks). She was most recently an editor at Kumon Workbooks. […]
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George Bick has joined Regan Arts as sales director. A number of years ago he was svp, sales at HarperCollins, ReganBooks, and William Morrow. Juliana Horbachevsky has joined Abrams as publicist, primarily working on cookbooks and pop-culture titles. Previously she was a publicist at Gallery. Stefanie Hoffman will join Little, Brown Children’s as marketing manager on November 3. She was most recently a marketing associate at Harper Children’s. Knopf svp, director of international rights (groupwide) and senior editor Carol Brown Janeway was presented with the 2014 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature at the Words without Borders dinner on Tuesday. Presenting the work, […]
Steady Trade Results in June and July
The AAP released monthly sales statistics for both June and July, which remained consistent with the pattern from earlier in the year, though perked up in July. Most of the year’s growth is coming children’s and young adult books, which have been up year-over-year for all seven reported months, though you can see in our chart below that those gains faded in June and July. Meanwhile, adult sales turned around in July — gaining $13 million, or 3.7 percent — after falling for four straight months, mostly on weaker hardcover sales. (Even in July, adult hardcover sales were down $5.1 million, […]
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Michelle Aielli has been named executive director of publicity for Hachette Books. She moves over from Little, Brown, where she was most recently publicity director. At Simon & Schuster, Jennifer Grojean has been promoted to director, national accounts for special markets, while Bianca Johnson moves up to manager, adult custom & proprietary sales. In addition, Alex Maurer has joined as manager, children’s custom & proprietary sales. Previously she was senior coordinator, custom & proprietary sales at Penguin. At HarperCollins Children’s, Nellie Kurtzman has joined as director of integrated marketing. Previously she was marketing director at Little, Brown Books for Young […]
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Margot Schupf has been promoted to publisher of Time Home Entertainment, effective immediately, succeeding Jim Childs, who left earlier this month. Schupf joined the division as associate publisher in June. She reports to svp, consumer marketing + revenue Jeff Blatt. Reporting to Schupf are TIHE editorial director Steve Koepp and Oxmoor House editorial director Leah McLaughlin, well as executive director, business development Suzanne Albert, executive director, marketing Susan Hettleman, and executive director, production & project management Carol Pittard. Linda Scalissi has joined 3 Seas Literary Agency as an agent, looking to represent women’s fiction, thrillers, young adult, mysteries and romance. We Need […]