The NEA announced 38 recipients of creative writing fellowships, providing awards of $25,000 to each of the writers (or $950,000 in all). Recipients include Percival Everett, Daniel Mason and Justin Torres. Margaret Wrinkle‘s WASH won the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. Scholastic announced a number of recent new hires and promotions. In the editorial department, Anamika Bhatnagar has been promoted to publishing director, Scholastic Press, while Amanda Maciel moves up to executive editor, Scholastic. Emily Seife has been promoted to editor, while Emellia Zamani and Becky Shapiro move up to associate editor. Additionally, Zack Clark and Marisa Polansky move up to assistant editor. […]
People: Judith Regan Returns to Publishing, Backed By Phaidon
Judith Regan will return to book publishing as ceo of Regan Arts, proclaimed a “publishing imprint and multimedia venture” backed by Phaidon Global (owner of Phaidon Press). Regan said in the announcement: “I am thrilled to partner with Phaidon, one of the world’s finest publishers, and Leon and Debra Black and family who are all deeply committed to the power of creative expression and the future of the book. Their love of great artists, authors, stories and design is an inspiration to all. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work with such a gifted and dedicated team.” The […]
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Rebecca Friedman has started her own agency, Rebecca Friedman Literary. She can be reached at rebecca@rfliterary.com. The agency is interested in commercial and literary fiction with a focus on literary novels of suspense, women’s fiction, contemporary romance, and young adult, as well as journalistic non-fiction and memoir. Anna Stein has joined Aitken Alexander’s board of directors. She currently runs the agency’s New York office. Gonzalo Ferreyra has joined Ingram Publisher Services in the role of director of acquisitions, full-service distribution. He was most recently director of marketing, print and digital at Weldon Owen Publishing. In addition, Carter Holliday has been promoted […]
Realigned Wiley Grows
Wiley reported second quarter 2014 results of $449 million, up 8 percent on an “adjusted” basis. Net income increased 9 percent to $49.9 million (or 84 cents a share). Overall digital book revenue increased 40 percent compared to last year, to $31.4 million. The professional development segment, where Wiley’s remaining trade book lines resides, grew 7 percent for the quarter on an adjusted basis to $92.5 million, driven by digital books and online training and assessment. Wiley also recorded another $15.3 million in restructuring charges as part of its previously announced realignment — $2.1 million of which applied to the […]
2013: The Year We Gaveled On
We don’t usually play the game of making broad simplistic declarations about players of the year, but in our newsroom 2013 was truly the “Year of the Gavel.” New York Southern District Court Judge Denise Cote — recently the focus of a scathing editorial in the WSJ calling her “a disgrace to the judiciary” — was the dominant Publishing Person of the Year, and no matter what the OED claims, the “word of the year” was certainly not “selfie.” It was “spiderweb,” a term that speaks volumes about the DOJ’s winning trial against Apple on ebook price-fixing charges that was the […]
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Ken Fultz has joined Bookmasters as general manager. Most recently he was vp of operations at book manufacturer Thomson-Shore after 33 years with The Mazer Corporation in Dayton, OH. where he led their printing services division. Among his responsibilities, Fultz “will work closely with David Hetherington, Baker & Taylor’s vice president of academic library and higher education merchandising/publisher services, to continue to strengthen the strategic partnership that was forged between Bookmasters and Baker & Taylor in July 2013.” Both companies are owned, separately, by private equity firm Castle Harlan. Margaret Milnes will join Running Press on December 11 in the […]