At Chronicle Books, Todd Presley has been promoted to executive director of human resources, McEvoy Group. Greg Mortimer joins Scribner Monday in the newly-created position of online marketing manager. He was formerly marketing manager of trade paperbacks for the Random House publishing group. Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz‘s new story collection THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, “about the heartbreak and radiance that is love,” will be published by Riverhead on September 11, 2012. Diaz will appear at BEA as one of the author breakfast speakers on Tuesday, June 5, and he will do a national book tour in the fall. […]
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Kent D. Wolf joins Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an agent, moving from Global Literary Management. He will continue to represent literary and commercial fiction, select young adult, narrative nonfiction, memoir, pop culture, and lifestyle books. Jen Linnan has opened her own agency, Linnan Literary Management, specializing in graphic works and illustration, in addition to select adult and children’s prose authors. Previously, Linnan was an associate agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she started in 2007 and handled international rights for several major agency clients. Perseus has added another new executive, hiring Patrick Kirk for the new role of vp, program office, “responsible […]
People: Coady Leaving Picador As Part of Editorial Restructuring
President and publisher of Picador and editor-at-large at Macmillan Frances Coady will be leaving the company as part of an editorial restructuring of the paperback imprint, according to a company-wide memo sent by ceo John Sargent late Thursday to staff (and confirmed to us Friday.) “Over time,” Sargent wrote, “the Picador list has largely gravitated toward FSG, and more recently Holt. At the same time, we have seen shifts in the distribution of Picador paperbacks. The structural/financial model, constructed in another time, has become less meaningful. So we need to change, and to reinvigorate Picador.” As a result, going forward […]
Upcoming: Final Wheel of Time Book Set for January 2013; Harper Gets Knox Memoir; Lin Shopping Memoir (Or Not)
Tor will release THE MEMORY OF LIGHT, the final novel in the Wheel of Time series begun by Robert Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson, on January 8, 2013, calling the book “one of the most important titles Tor will ever publish.” As has been widely reported, Harper will publish Amanda Knox’s memoir in 2013, paying as much as $4 million following a multi-day auction involving as many as seven publishers. Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham told the AP Knox “would work with a collaborator” and that he was “deeply impressed” with Knox after meeting her. “The experience of actually sitting […]
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Co-head of ICM’s department selling books to the film world Nick Harris is among a group of agents whose contracts will not be renewed when they expire in March, according to multiple reports. Harris joined in ICM in late 2010 to lead the department alongside Josie Freedman. The agency is continuing to reshape itself as part of a transition to a partnership. Author and two-time Pulitzer-winning correspondent Anthony Shadid, 43, died on assignment in Syria, “apparently of an asthma attack.” NYT executive editor Jill Abramson wrote, “Anthony died as he lived — determined to bear witness to the transformation sweeping […]
S&S Registers Eighth Consecutive Profit Increase Even As Sales Wane
CBS reported fourth quarter earnings after the close of the market on Tuesday, with Simon & Schuster recording a 1 percent decrease in sales, down $3 million to $229 million, accompanied by a sharp increase in profits. Adjusted OIBDA rose $8 million (or 40 percent) to $28 million, and adjusted operating income rose $9 million, at $27 million. That’s a 12 percent margin for the quarter, and the company recorded an 11 percent profit margin for the full fiscal year. S&S took a $2 million restructuring charge during the fourth quarter not charged against OIBDA, related to the realignments in […]