Don Jacobson will join Harper Christian and Harper Collins Focus on October 7 as svp and group publisher, reporting to Mark Schoenwald, president and CEO, Harper Christian. Previously, Jacobson bought Multnomah Press, before selling it to Penguin Random House, and founded literary management agency D.C. Jacobson and Associates. Karyn Marcus has been promoted to executive editor at the Gallery Books Group. Haley Swanson has been promoted to associate editor at Harper Wave. Angeline Rodriguez will join Orbit as associate editor. She was most recently with Ballantine. Alicia Tan has joined Harper as assistant editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Abrams. […]
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October Picks
Jenna Bush Hager chose Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House as the October pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Adrienne Brodeur’s The Wild Game. Its featured debut, Megan Phelps-Roper’s Unfollow, as well as another pick, Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School, are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter. The rest of the picks: Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was A Girl, by Jeannie Vanasco Grand Union, by Zadie Smith All This Could Be Yours, by Jamie Attenberg Olive Again, by Elizabeth Strout I […]
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Lara Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Emily Bestler Books. Megan Rudloff has been promoted to associate publicist at Atria. Conor Mintzer joins Holt as associate editor. He was most recently at Flatiron Books. Sylvie Carr has founded The Carr Agency. She was previously an agent at Fletcher & Company. Idea Architects has launched a new division called Idea Architects: True focused on “inspirational and compelling memoirs and true stories that have the power to change hearts and minds.” Author Lara Love Hardin will develop and represent the books for the new unit. Author Janet Evanovich is switching agents […]
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Cindy Sipala has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press. Mary Reynics is moving Ballantine Bantam Dell as executive editor, reporting to Jennifer Hershey. She was previously at Crown, and will continue to edit select titles for Crown Forum. Robert Van Kolken joins the Hachette Audio staff as senior producer. He was previously with Macmillan. At Scholastic, Michael Moccio has joined as coordinator, licensing & brands. He was previously assistant editor at Boom! Studios. Paul Moore has joined as associate director, metadata. He was previously manager, publishing & planning (operations) at Disney Publishing. Veronica Mang has joined as junior designer, […]
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Rakia Clark has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior editor. She was most recently senior editor at Beacon Press. Mabel Hsu has been promoted to editor at Katherine Tegen Books. Stephanie Cooper has joined Dutton and Plume as marketing director. She was previously marketing director at Harper Collins. Maria Whelan has joined Princeton University Press as promotions manager overseeing publicity for history, philosophy, and sociology books. She was previously a senior Publicist at Dutton. Peter Robinson is leaving Rogers, Coleridge, and White to “begin a fresh chapter in his life” after over 30 years as an agent. He has been […]
Oprah’s Book Club No Longer Exclusively Shills for Amazon
As first announced in March, Oprah’s book club returns and promises to be less occasional in her new relationship with Apple TV+. Her first pick under the new banner is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer — though because Apple’s new streaming service does not launch until November, the first video episode featuring Coates will not be available until then. But they promise a new episode every two months (or 6 picks a year). The last Oprah pick was almost a year ago, when she featured Michelle Obama’s Becoming. Most importantly, the new relationship represents at least a partial reduction in Oprah’s […]