Antonella Iannarino has left the David Black Agency, where she was an agent and website and social media manager for authors, after eight years to launch AI Strategic, offering consulting services to authors and companies for developing their online presence through social media, websites, ebook publishing and brand strategies. She may be reached at antonella@aistrategic.com. Claire Payne will join Parragon as senior director of mass market sales on July 3. Previously she was senior director of sales at Dalmatian Press. In the UK, literary agent Anita Land has split with partner since 2000 Georgina Capel to set up a new agency, the Bookseller […]
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Man Asian Literary Prize winner for the novel Please Look After Mom Shin Kyung-sook admitted that her short story “Legend,” published in a 1996 collection, copies from a work by the late Yukio Mishima. “As I compared the sentences I couldn’t believe it myself,” she told the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper. “I cannot trust my own memory” about reading Mishima, she said. “I sincerely apologize to the literary writer who raised the issue as well as all my acquaintances, and above all, many readers who read my novels…. Everything is my fault.” Changbi Publishers is removing the current edition of the story collection […]
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At Basic Books, Dan Gerstle is being promoted to senior editor, while Leah Stecher moves up to associate editor. Jessica Brown has joined Convergent Books as publicist/marketer. Previously she was a publicist at Howard Books. Sourcebooks announced a number of promotions in its design team. Dawn Adams is being promoted to art director for the Casablanca imprint, and Adrienne Krogh moves up to art director for Landmark. Additionally, Nicole Komasinski is being promoted to associate art director and Jillian Rahn is being promoted to senior production designer. Thérèse Coen will join Madeleine Milburn Ltd as rights agent in July. Previously […]
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Author, former New Yorker editor and former editor-in-chief of Random House Daniel Menaker has now formally joined McCormick Literary as an affiliate agent. He started agenting and was informally associated with McCormick in early 2014. At HarperCollins, Samantha Hagerbaumer has been promoted to senior director, international sales & marketing, expanding her role to include marketing for the HarperCollins Global Publishing Program while keeping responsibilities for sales of HarperCollins US English-language books to affiliated companies in UK, Canada, ANZ and India. Hagerbaumer continues to report to David Wolfson with a dotted line to Chantal Restivo-Alessi. Perseus announced a number of changes in its […]
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Former publisher at Atavist Books and Picador Frances Coady will join Aragi Inc. as a literary agent on May 28, representing both fiction and nonfiction. Fuse Literary has acquired Penumbra Literary and added its principal and owner, Jennifer Chen Tran as an associate agent. At independent publisher Sarabande Books’ Brooklyn office, Kristen Radtke has been promoted to managing editor, and Ariel Lewiton joined as the marketing and publicity director. Previously she worked at Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill. The University of South Carolina will announce this week that they have acquired a substantial collection of letters, photos and publications of the late Dashiell Hammett. The archives have been obtained “through gift-and-purchase agreements” […]
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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 […]