Film/TV Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, through their company Escapist Fare, have signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. That deal starts with a limited series adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Showtime, but includes a number of other projects in development. Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman will executive…
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Executive director of publicity, Knopf and Pantheon Paul Bogaards has been promoted to the additional role of deputy publisher, reporting to Tony Chirico. He will have additional responsibility for overseeing marketing for Knopf and Pantheon while continuing to serve as group spokesperson and lead publicity liaison. Newly reporting to Bogaards is svp, associate publisher, Knopf…
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George Witte has been promoted to senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the St. Martin’s publishing group. Tina Jordan has been promoted to deputy editor at the New York Times Book Review. David Kelly become managing editor. Elizabeth Egan joins as preview editor; she was previously Glamour’s books editor and worked at Workman and Simon…
The First of the Best of the Best Books of 2019
With today’s publication of three separate “books of the year” lists from the NYT’s daily book critics, along with recent additions from Molly Young at NY Magazine, and Maureen Corrigan at NPR, it’s time for the first installment of our signature aggregation of lists from all over that yield solid, consensus lists of the very…
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At Simon & Schuster Audio, Tiffany Frarey has been promoted to senior associate producer; Gaby Audet to marketing coordinator; and Desiree Vecchio to senior editor. Tamar McCollom has been promoted to assistant editor at Scribner. At Waterbrook Multnomah, Laura Barker has been promoted to vice president and publisher. Andrew Stoddard becomes editorial director. Kristopher Orr…
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Daniel Loedel will join Bloomsbury as senior editor, starting on January 6. He was at Scribner. Catherine Tung is now an associate editor at Beacon Press. She was an assistant editor at Vintage. Mary Gaule has been promoted to associate editor for Harper and Harper Perennial. Megha Majumdar was promoted to editor at Catapult. Associate…