Publication Announcement Bestselling author of The Alchemist and other works Paulo Coelho has a new novel, THE SPY, based on the life of Mata Hari, on the way from a new US publisher, Knopf. Edited by Anne Messitte, the book will be published in the US on November 22, translated from the Portuguese by Zoe Perry. Vintage Español will publish as a Spanish-language hardcover. The book draws on files on Mata Hari released by intelligence agencies in Germany, Holland, and the UK: “I ended up with a mountain of documents,” Coelho says in the announcement, “but also with a question: What did Mata Hari […]
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Rachel Fershleiser will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the newly created role of executive director, audience development and engagement on June 20, reporting to Adriana Rizzo. Most recently she was director, publishing outreach at Tumblr. Jonathan Nowell has joined Trillium Partners firm as a senior adviser, working “to originate and execute M&A and fund raising mandates in the publishing sector.” Nowell was ceo and president at Nielsen Book. He says in the announcement, “Having observed and participated actively in the evolution of the publishing industry for over three decades, I can see significant further scope for M&A activity and the potential […]
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Maggie Searcy has been promoted to associate art director, ad promo design at HarperCollins Children’s. Affirm Press will work with Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/Defiore Rights to sell rights to select titles throughout the world, including North America. An editing error misreported Nisha Panchal-Terhune‘s promotion at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She is now associate director, creative services. Distribution Lorimer Children & Teens will work with Lerner Publisher Services as their US distributor to the trade and school and public library markets, beginning August 2016. Awards Flora Fraser has won the George Washington Prize for The Washingtons: George and Martha (Knopf)
Burgess Lea Moves to Quarto
Running Press co-founder Buz Teacher his wife Janet Bukovinsky Teacher have sold the assets of their year-old cooking publisher Burgess Lea Press to Quarto Publishing Group USA. The Teachers will “continue to work with the imprint,” though editorial and production operations will be run out of Quarto’s Minneapolis, MN, office. The Burgess Lea site lists 5 titles in print; it has operated as an affiliate imprint of Running Press (which is now owned by Hachette Book Group as part of the Perseus Books Group acquisition). Quarto has promised to sustain Burgess Lea’s model of donating all after-tax publishing profits to charitable organizations good works that address hunger […]
Briefs: BookBub to Offer Paid Ads; Applebaum, Potash Honored; and More
Initiatives BookBub, which promotes selected ebook price deals as paid promotions, is now starting to add paid advertisements as well. (Advertised books do not need to be discounted, or subject to BookBub’s other criteria for editorial filtering.) Pricing is based on CPM auctions. Awards The annual UJA-Federation of New York Publishing Division dinner on Wednesday night featured a few twists, honoring a digital reading pioneer for the first time, and celebrating two men with longstanding family connections to the UJA — emeritus evp, corporate communications, Penguin Random House Stuart Applebaum through his father, and president and ceo of Overdrive Steve Potash […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Helen Atsma has been promoted to editorial director, fiction, while Naomi Gibbs moves up to editor. Rebecca Lang has joined St. Martin’s as publicity manager. She was previously a publicist at Viking Penguin. In addition, Courtney Reed has been promoted to marketing manager. Tara Carberry has joined hoopla digital in the newly created position of content strategist. Most recently she was an associate literary agent at Trident Media Group. Rebecca Liao and Cristóbal Pera have joined Words Without Borders’ board of directors. Distribution IPG has launched a new distribution program, Amphora, focused on servicing large content holders. […]