Kurt Mueller is joining Inkshares as coo. He was previously coo of The Onion for eight years. Cassie Mannes Murray has been promoted to associate agent at Howland Literary. Eugene Winick, 84, longtime president of McIntosh & Otis literary agency — which he acquired in 1985 — died August 21. Gail Sheehy, 82, author of…
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Audio Spotify has indicated plans for an “audiobook strategy” through a job listing for a Head of Audio Books position that is attracting wide notice. The job includes “manag[ing] a book editorial team and strategy” and combines the development of original content as well as licensing and packaging third-party content. The company is working to…
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Picks Reese Witherspoon chose Leah Johnson‘s You Should See Me in a Crown as her first-ever YA title for the Hello Sunshine Book Club. Forthcoming AMERICAN CRISIS by Andrew Cuomo, “a revealing, behind-the-scenes account of his experience leading New York State through the COVID-19 epidemic,” will be published by Crown on October 13. Audio CD versions of…
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Bridget Monroe Itkin has been promoted to senior editor at Artisan Books. Wah-Ming Chang has been promoted to vice president of company culture and senior managing editor, books at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull. In the UK, Lucy Hale has been hired for the new role of publisher for Pan, reporting to Jeremy Trevathan. She had been deputy…
McGraw Hill Informs Authors Their Audible Relationship Is Likely Over
Authors who published audiobooks with McGraw Hill received an email from the publisher in late June notifying them that their audiobooks would be pulled from Audible on June 30. “After prolonged contract negotiations with Audible over a span of several years, we have been unable to come to terms for the renewal of our agreement,”…
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Marta Fleming has been promoted to director of international rights at Macmillan, working on St. Martin’s, Flatiron, Tor/Forge, and Celadon Books. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Courtney Littler becomes senior editor, focusing on Castle Point Books and the Griffin Puzzle Program, and Joe Goldschein has been promoted to vp, marketing & sales operations. At Macmillan…