Valentina Kalk will leave her position as chief of UN Publications in late September to become director of the Brookings Institution Press in Washington DC. Jonathan Hevenstone has joined Atypon as svp business development. The company, which provides a software-as-a-service content delivery platform that has focused on STM publishers, will be expanding to “adjacent publishing areas.” Hevenstone was vp business development at SourceHOV and prior that he worked at Jouve. The recently-formed League of Assistant Editors — focused on helping young editors and agents connect with each other to advance the next generation of publishing professionals and authors — has […]
Agency News
Random Rights Stats
The Random House sub-rights team agrees that Brazil has been the new “hot zone” for licensing books (though that may change soon as the country’s economic fortunes swing again). In a blog post that was shared with agents in a newsletter, the publisher offers some interesting rights statistics and infographics. The “top-earning genres around the world” from 2010 through 2012 were: 1. Juvenile fiction 2. Mystery/Thriller 3. General fiction 4. Biography 5. Romance Language-markets by income are: 1. German 2. French 3. Italian 4. Portugese 5. Spanish But by title volume it is: 1. Chinese (simplified characters) 2. Russian 3. […]
People, Etc.
Group communications director for HarperCollins UK and International Siobhan Kenny is leaving the company after six years, with her last day after the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. “After almost six amazing years at HC, it is time for me to move on,” Kenny said in the announcement. “Publishing is always a fascinating business, but these last few years have been really transformational and I have learnt a huge amount being part of a business in rapid transition.” At Public Affairs, Lindsay Fradkoff has been promoted to associate director of marketing, and Emily Lavelle moves up to publicity manager. At NetGalley, […]
People, Etc.
At HarperCollins, Joe Macavage has been promoted to the newly created position of director of fulfillment operations, including HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Macavage will be based in the RR Donnelley facility in Plainfield, IN and will be responsible for oversight of the company’s distribution, including closely monitoring the RRD New Release Distribution Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. At Ten Speed Press, Michele Crim has been promoted to senior director of marketing, while Toni Tajima has been promoted to senior art director and Katy Brown moves up to associate art director. Ray Wolf starts today as director, sales and business development at Fox […]
Literary Group Combines with Folio
Folio Literary Management announced that as of July 1, they have combined with Literary Group International, continuing to operate together under the Folio name. LGI’s president Frank Weimann is now senior vice president and director of operations at Folio, with Katherine Latshaw and Jeff Silberman continuing as agents. Weimann says in the announcement, “It’s a great chance to combine our strengths and make something better. We complement each other, and we feel confident that our list going forward will be twice as strong.” One of Folio’s founding partners Scott Hoffman (who spoke on our Publishers Launch BEA panel about agencies […]
The Book Attorney In This Town
Next Tuesday Blue Rider Press publishes reporter Mike Leibovich’s exuberantly bridge-torching account of the Washington, DC “media industrial complex” THIS TOWN, and you have probably seen extracts sprinkled liberally across preview articles. But those “nuggets” have focused on the political and journalism players, while most book publishing people will likely hone in on Chapter 2, which includes a look at Bob Barnett, “a single superlawyer cash redemeption center” who “can legitimize a person’s earning power just by representing him or her. This service to his country includes a strenuous ability to promote his clients in the media and an equally […]