Hachette Book Group announced changes to several divisions, related to the Perseus Books Group acquisition and warehouse expansion in Lebanon, IN, saying those developments provided “an opportunity to reevaluate where certain functions of HBG’s business are situated in order to make the most efficient use of the many offices we now have.” As a result, 52 job functions are being consolidated and transferred to different HBG locations. It’s not clear yet how many current employees will lose their jobs as a result of the reorganization, and how many will relocate and stay with the company. Spokesperson Sophie Cottrell said, “We value the talent and […]
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Julie Stevenson will join Lippincott Massie & McQuilkin as an agent to expand her list of literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, YA and children’s books. Previously she was an agent at Waxman Leavell and Sobel Weber Associates. She will divide her time between New York and her hometown of Missoula, Montana. Alexandra Poreda has joined Other Press as associate editor. She was previously a development editor at Cambridge University Press. Kat Brzozowski has moved from Thomas Dunne Books over to Macmillan’s Swoon Reads and Feiwel and Friends as an editor. Former NBN vp of sales Michael Sullivan, 69, died on Sunday following an extended illness. CEO […]
Forthcoming: New Novels from Coehlo, Lamb on November 22; and More
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 […]