Tina Bennett has left William Morris Endeavor to form a new agency, Bennett Literary, in collaboration with ICM Partners, which will provide subrights, business affairs, and contract management services to the new venture. Min Lee will join Hachette Book Group on March 2 as senior vice president and general counsel, reporting to Michael Pietsch and joining HBG’s executive management board. Lee was previously was senior vice president, associate general counsel and global head of compliance Penguin Random House. She succeeds Carol Ross, who will retire from HBG in June. Meghan Houser will join Flatiron Books as senior editor on January 13. […]
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Millicent Bennett has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director, reporting to Bruce Nichols. She was previously executive editor at Grand Central, and has worked at Simon & Schuster, Random House, Ecco, and Knopf. Sarah Pelz has joined HMH as executive editor, reporting to Deb Brody, with a focus on acquiring lifestyle nonfiction. She was previously executive editor at Atria. Noa Wheeler has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as executive editor, responsible for the Sarah J. Maas publishing program. She will continue her freelance editorial work for authors and publishers in addition to her role at Bloomsbury. Alexa Higbee will join as […]
More January Picks
Good Morning America chose Liz Moore’s Long Bright River as their January Book Club pick. Apple Books announced their Best of January, which also includes the Moore, plus Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age, Jeanine Cummins’ American Dirt, Emma Copley Eisenberg’s The Third Rainbow Girl, and Eoin Colfer’s Highfire, all of which were excerpted months ago in our Buzz Book 2019 Fall/Winter and can still be sampled ahead of publication. The rest of the list features: The Wild One, by Nick Petrie Into the Fire, by Gregg Hurwitz Love Her or Lose Her, by Tessa Bailey Little Gods, by Meng Jin […]
January Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for the month is American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins and their featured debut is Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner. The Cummins, along with other picks, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River, is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter anthology and available for download now. Their other top picks for the month are: Boys & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano Agency, by William Gibson Wilmington’s Lie, by David Zucchino The Night Country, by Melissa Albert The Wives, by Tarryn Fisher Barnes & Noble also chose the Cummins and the Napolitano, […]
Briefs
Journalist and novelist Ward Just, 84, died Thursday of Lewy body dementia. His novel Echo House was a National Book Award finalist and his novel An Unfinished Season was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Romance novelist Johanna Lindsey, 67, died on October 27 in Nashua, NH. She wrote almost 60 novels that sold more than 60 million copies. PW named author Dav Pilkey as its “person of the year,” writing that “with sales of his Dog Man series skyrocketing in 2019, Pilkey is doing more to excite kids about reading than any author since J.K. Rowling.” The […]
People: Fallon to Retire From Pearson, HMH Exec Departs, and More
After presiding over years of asset sales, waves of significant layoffs, and a significant decline in sales, Pearson chief executive John Fallon has decided to retire in 2020 after a successor is selected. By his account, “Over 75% of the company is now growing, as we work our way through a major industry wide disruption in the other 25% of Pearson – US Higher Education Courseware. All of Pearson is now very well placed to meet the need for affordable and effective learning…. We’re now at the stage where it’s time to transition to a new leader, who can bring […]