Walter Isaacson discussed his forthcoming book THE INNOVATORS with Slate publisher Jacob Weisberg Friday morning at BEA. The book, which traces the lineage of technological innovation from Ada Lovelace (“I didn’t know much about her until my daughter introduced me”), Charles Babbage and Alan Turing to the founders of Intel to Twitter’s Ev Williams, was an antidote to his biography of Steve Jobs. “Almost every great innovator in the book had a great collaborator,” Isaacson said, adding he wanted to show “three to four great types of leaders” as opposed to the singular, uncompromising vision of Jobs. “People would come […]
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Announcements: Tor.com, the Imprint; Kirkus Prizes; and More
Science fiction & fantasy community website Tor.com is expanding its original fiction output with a new imprint devoted to publishing novellas, shorter novels, serializations, and other pieces of fiction exceeding 18,000 words. According to a blog post by the imprint, each DRM-free title will be available exclusively for purchase, and will also be available via POD and audio formats. A “select number of titles” will be considered for traditional print publishing as well. In announcing the imprint at an afternoon presentation at IDPF, Tor/Forge publisher Tom Doherty said: “We see it as a way of science fiction & fantasy to […]
People, Etc.
David Larabell has joined CAA as an agent in the books department, where he will help identify publishing opportunities for the agency’s non-author clients. Larabell, who will be based in CAA’s New York office, was previously an agent at the David Black Agency. Rachel Wasdyke has been promoted to senior publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Jeff Deutsch will take over as director of the University of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstore in Chicago on July 1. With 53,000 members, it calls itself “a beloved Chicago cultural institution.” Deutsch has been director of stores for the Stanford Bookstore Group since 2012, prior to […]
FT’s Business Book Prize Teams with McKinsey
Known until now as the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, in its tenth year the newspaper has a new partner for the £30,000 award in McKinsey & Company. McKinsey partner and director of publishing Rik Kirkland will serve as one of the judges, the two are adding a second award, the Bracken Bower Prize, given to “a promising young writer with the best proposal for a book about an emerging business theme.” The winner will receive £15,000 and their proposal will be published on FT.com. Among the four judges for the new prize is Penguin Random House […]
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Sandy McCormick Hill has left her position as ebook rights, contract manager, at Harper Collins. She can be reached at smchill@gmail.com. Simone Garzella Literary Scouting has been appointed US literary scout for the Lira Publishing Group in Hungary. Correcting from Friday, Liesa Abrams‘ new title is associate editorial director of Aladdin and Pulse. Linda Leavell‘s HOLDING UP UPSIDE DOWN: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore won the Biographers International Organization’s Plutarch Award for the best biography. The closing in April 2015 of the California Princeton Fulfillment Services in Ewing, NJ that we reported on Friday — part of the […]
People: Aragi Honored, and More
The Center for Fiction will present their 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction to literary agent Nicole Aragi at their December 9 benefit and awards dinner. Elizabeth Scarboro‘s My Foreign Cities has won the third annual Chautauqua Prize. Liesa Abrams has been promoted to associate editorial director, Aladdin and Simon Pulse. At Putnam, Liz Stein has been promoted to associate editor. Jayme Boucher has been promoted to agent director at the Penguin Speakers Bureau, reporting to Tiffany Tomlin. Both managers Elaine Trevorrow and Erin Simpson will report to Boucher. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin […]