Donald Winchester will join Watson, Little as a literary agent on October 1. Previously he was an agent at AP Watt, and his client list will move with him. Liz Egan notes on Twitter that she starts this week as books editor at Glamour Magazine. She was an editor at Amazon Publishing. Chairman of Constable & Robinson in the UK Nick Robinson, 58, died following a long illness. He started Robinson Publishing in 1983, and merged the company with Constable in 1999. There is a Facebook memorial page here. Hachette Book Group senior sales rep Conan Gorenstein, 64, died suddenly on September 1 at his […]
Awards
September “Best” Lists
As the big fall releases begin, Amazon and Barnes & Noble agree on 6 titles on their respective “best books of the month” lists: The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (also Amazon’s Spotlight pick) Burial Rites, Hannah Kent (also Amazon’s Featured Debut, and one of our Fall/Winter Buzz Books) The Maid’s Version, Daniel Woodrell A House in the Sky, Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, Bob Shacochis Doctor Sleep, Stephen King Amazon includes another of our Fall/Winter Buzz Books, ALEX, by Pierre Lemaitre and Frank Wynne, along with: Help for the Haunted, John Searles The Mushroom Hunters, Langdon […]
People, Etc.
Based on two anonymous sources, Shane Salerno’s forthcoming movie about the late J.D. Salinger and the tie-in book SALINGER co-written by Salerno and David Shields asserts that the late author instructed his estate to publish at least five posthumous books, “authorizing a specific timetable” for publication running from 2015 through 2020. The NYT says the books are described as including “a novel set during World War II and based on his first marriage to Sylvia Welter, and a novella modeled on his own war experiences.” A story collection called THE FAMILY GLASS would expand previously published stories about the Glass […]
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Faber ceo Stephen Page has been appointed to Bloomsbury’s board of directors as an independent nonexecutive director. Bloomsbury chairman Jeremy Wilson said in the announcement that Page’s “depth of experience of digital innovation in trade publishing will bring new commercial insights and challenge to the Board to help drive value from Bloomsbury’s cornerstone trade publishing processes and business.” Colin Dickerman will join Flatiron Books as editorial director on September 9. Previously he was executive editor at Penguin Press. In the announcement of the imprint’s first new editorial hire, Bob Miller said: “Miller, “Over the past twenty years, Colin has earned […]
Briefs: More Funding for Open Road; Commonwealth Book Prize Discontinued; And More
Open Road Integrated Media announced it has received $11 million in Series C funding led by private equity group NewSpring Capital (whose technology fund NewSpring Growth Capital III supplied $8 million) with existing investors Kohlberg Ventures, Azure Capital, and Golden Seeds joining NewSpring in the financing, bringing the total amount Open Road has raised to $24 million. On Open Road’s blog ceo Jane Friedman said the new funding will be used for new technology, additional revenue streams, expand their International Publishing Partners Translation Program (which includes 8 partners to date) and further investment in “appropriate content and technology companies.” Andrea […]
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Director of publicity for Bloomsbury Children’s and Walker Children’s Katy Hershberger is leaving. She will start next week as an associate director of publicity for Simon & Schuster Children’s, as well as the Atheneum, and Margaret McElderry Books imprint. Following the sale of AP Watt to United Agents late last year, Derek Johns will retire at the end of November. He has been at AP Watt since 1992. At Harlequin’s Mira, Tara Parsons has been promoted to editorial director. Casey Maloney joined Picador as senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Penguin, working on the Gotham, Avery, Viking […]