Sharon Kunz has joined Da Capo Press as senior publicist, focusing primarily on their Seal Press list and reporting to Lissa Warren. Previously, she was media engagement manager at Globe Pequot. She will be based in the Hachette Boston office. The American Library Association has promoted Mary Mackay to associate executive director for publishing, effective June 5th. She will lead ALA publishing and its Editions/Neal-Schuman, Booklist, American Libraries, eLearning Solutions, Digital Resources, and Graphics imprints. At Ingram Content Group, Nick Yates has been promoted to manager of operations analysis in Greater Nashville. Christy Johnson has joined as client relations manager for Ingram Academic Services in New York. Adaptations The long-gestating efforts to develop Robert Jordan’s Wheel […]
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Briefs: Ferguson to Holiday House, Grisham on Tour, and More
Margaret Ferguson will join Holiday House Publishing in May as publisher of a Margaret Ferguson Books imprint, reporting to editor-in-chief Mary Cash. It’s the first time Holiday House has created an eponymous imprint. Ferguson was publisher of a Margaret Ferguson Books at Farrar, Straus Children’s. Ferguson says in the announcement, “This is a wonderful and unique opportunity for me to be involved with a small publishing house that is on the move and expanding their publishing program in interesting ways.” Chris Kepner has launched The Kepner Agency, after nine years with Victoria Sanders & Associates as an agent and director of international […]
Bezos Tells Shareholders and Employees It Will Never Be Day 2
Amazon ceo Jeff Bezos’s annual letter to shareholders focuses on particulars of his management philosophy more than anything, but it starts with his answer to a common question: “‘Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?'” “That’s a question I just got at our most recent all-hands meeting. I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1 for a couple of decades. I work in an Amazon building named Day 1, and when I moved buildings, I took the name with me. I spend time thinking about this topic. “Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed […]
April iBooks Picks
iBooks has listed its April recommendations. The titles include American War, by Omar El Akkad, an excerpt of which is featured in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer and available for download. The other fiction picks include: Anything Is Possible, by Elizabeth Strout Borne, by Jeff VanderMeer My Last Lament, by James William Brown Beartown, by Fredrik Backman For nonfiction: Letterman, by Jason Zinoman The Gatekeepers, by Chris Whipple Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann Janesville, by Amy Goldstein Anatomy of Innocence, by Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger The YA list features Sara Zarr’s Gem & Dixie, also excerpted in Spring/Summer Buzz Books, […]
NYC: Macmillan’s Lease, More Amazon Books, and An Attempted Rights Fair
Macmillan is reportedly considering a new lease at 120 Broadway, in a portion of space currently occupied by the Attorney General’s office, The Real Deal reports, after spending “about a year” looking for “as much as 150,000 square feet.” The company’s lease at the Flatiron building expires in 2018. Italian real estate group Sorgente acquired the Flatiron some time ago, and said they wanted to convert it into a hotel once Macmillan departed (or at the least, they will be raising the rent considerably). Macmillan occupies about 176,000 square feet now at the Flatiron. More definitively, Amazon Books will open a location […]
People, Etc.
Annie Chagnot has been promoted to editor at Spiegel & Grau. Jin Yu has been promoted to associate marketing director at Berkley. Patricia Cave has been promoted to publicist at Flatiron Books. At Chronicle Books, Rachel Geiger has been promoted to executive director of domestic sales, while Anna-Lisa Sandstrum has been promoted to senior sales manager. Melissa Grecco has been promoted to national accounts manager. Ian Delaney and Morgan Amer have each been promoted to assistant sales manager. Author of What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Bolles, 90, died on Friday. Bookselling The big 37,500-square-foot Barnes & Noble in Bethesda Row in Maryland just outside […]