Elizabeth Trout has been promoted to assistant editor at Kensington. Corporate LSC Communications has renamed its books division — which includes Dover Publications — Lakeside Book Company. CEO Dave McCree said, “The Lakeside name is a nod to our roots and symbolic of the trust our company has earned to help stories of all kinds […]
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ABA Sees Significant Drop In Member Stores, Presses “The Mantle of 10 More Points”
The American Booksellers Association held their annual meeting and town hall virtually on Thursday. Incoming president Bradley Graham at Politics & Prose presented membership data that revealed the significant toll the pandemic (and potentially other factors) has had on the sector. “At the latest count, the ABA has 1,700 member companies and 2,100 locations,” Graham […]
Independent Booksellers On Selling Pence and More
A Book Show panel with four independent booksellers on Monday addressed a variety of current issues, from the transition back to regular in-store commerce to the challenges raised by authors such as Mike Pence and Blake Bailey. Asked by moderator Ed Nawotka at PW about dealing with controversial books and authors, the booksellers illuminated multiple […]
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Andrea Hall has joined Beaming Books as senior acquisitions editor. She was formerly editor at Albert Whitman & Company. Bookselling Betsy Burton and some of her partners are selling their majority interests in the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, UT, to Calvin Crosby, currently executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Effective […]
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Claire Eddy and Will Hinton have been promoted to editorial directors of Tor, Nightfire, Tor Teen, and Starscape. Also, Molly McGhee is promoted to assistant editor, effective immediately, reporting to Devi Pillai and Miriam Weinberg. Stacey Barney will join Nancy Paulsen Books as associate publisher, starting June 1. She was most recently executive editor at Putnam Children’s. […]
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At Azantian Literary Agency, T.S. Ferguson has joined as literary agent and will be open to queries beginning June 1. He was most recently an editor at Jimmy Patterson Books. Renae Moore has joined as associate agent, representing adult and YA speculative fiction and graphic novels. She was previously assistant agent at Tobias Literary Agency. […]