Tom Clancy is returning to William Morris Endeavor for representation, where Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Tracy Fisher will serve as his primary agents. Clancy next novel THREAT VECTOR publishes next month, and Paramount is “rebooting” the Clany movie franchise with “Jack Ryan,” directed by Kenneth Branagh, and starring Chris Pine, Keira Knightley and Kevin Costner, set for a Christmas 2013 release. Allison Hollett has joined Osprey as US vp, sales and marketing, where she will develop and manage all aspects of the company’s marketing and publicity efforts working out of Osprey’s New York offices. Hollett, previously director of trade sales […]
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Ben George has joined Penguin as an editor, starting today. He was co-founder and editorial director of Lookout Books of Wilmington, NC and editor for the last four years of the literary magazine Ecotone. Kristen Fritz has been named senior director, content marketing, digital marketplace development at Random House, Inc. Clay Smith has joined Kirkus Media as features editor, reporting to chief operating officer Meg Kuehn. Most recently he was literary director of the Texas Book Festival. In the UK, Ella Diamond Kahn and Bryony Woods have launched a literary agency, Diamond Kahn and Woods. Diamond Kahn was an assistant […]
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Profile Books has bought Birmingham-based publisher Tindal Street Press, which will become an imprint at the publishing house as of November 1, overseen by Serpent’s Tail publisher Hannah Westland. Tindal Street Press Director Alan Mahar said in a statement: “We’re proud of what we’ve achieved during Tindal Street Press’s fourteen years of independent publishing in Birmingham. We found new English writers and published them with conviction and flair, earning prize-listings for the Man Booker, Orange and Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes, a British Book Award and two Costa Prize winners.” Profile Books MD Andrew Franklin added: “It’s always sad to see the […]
Dijkstra Agency Asserts Representation of Nobel Winner Mo Yan’s Backlist
New winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan is listed on The Wylie Agency’s website as a current client and, as we reported yesterday, when contacted for comment Andrew Wylie said by e-mail that the agency was “in discussions with publishers in all territories” about Yan’s work. (This was confirmed by some publishers reporting from Frankfurt.) But Sandra Dijkstra at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency reports that “we were Mo Yan’s American and international agents from the beginning. Starting with his classic novel RED SORGHUM, we sold his first 6 books worldwide.” She notes that “we are very […]
Quercus to Try Again With Freestanding US Line
The UK’s Quercus will try again with a US publishing operation after their first effort, a joint venture with Sterling called Silver Oak, withered at Sterling after that company lost its ceo and some of the focus of its parent company Barnes & Noble. The new freestanding Quercus US venture will be run out of a New York office of their own and sold and distributed by Random House, aiming to launch in fall 2013. They plan to launch with 40 titles from across the Quercus UK list. When announced in September 2010, the Sterling joint venture was set to […]
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Farrin Jacobs will join Little, Brown Young Reader’s Poppy imprint as editorial director on October 15, reporting to Megan Tingley. Jacobs spent the past six years at HarperTeen, most recently as editorial director. Tom Miller has joined the Business Group at McGraw-Hill Professional as executive editor. He was formerly executive editor at Wiley. At Perseus Distribution, Judy Courtade has been promoted to the newly created role of associate director, backlist sales, effective October 15. Jessica Schmidt has been named associate director, client services. She was most recently manager of publisher relations at Audible. Additionally, Ari Brenman joins as manager, client […]