T.S. Ferguson, has joined Jimmy Patterson as editor. He was previously editor with Harlequin Teen/Inkyard Press. Olivia Peluso has joined The Experiment as associate editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Portfolio/Sentinel. At Sourcebooks, Ashlyn Keil has been promoted to marketing associate, children’s and YA. Katie Stutz has been promoted to author relations associate. Brittany Russell has been promoted to PR specialist at Amazon Publishing. Tess Callero has joined Europa Content as agent. She was previously with Curtis Brown. Film/TV At the Apple TV+ event on Monday, Oprah Winfrey announced that one of her projects for streaming service would be […]
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Apple’s Soon-to-Be Revealed Streaming Service Features Many Book Adaptations
As Apple prepares to explain their long-in-the-works streaming video service at a March 25 event in Cupertino, CA, there’s more word in advance regarding one book-related project. Last August a deal was announced for a “sizable script-to-series commitment” to develop Min Jin Lee’s PACHINKO as a series. Now comes confirmation that Apple has made an eight-episode series order — backed by a “premium budget” and ambition to rival Netflix’s The Crown, in making the series in Korean, Japanese and English. Other books in development at Apple for streaming include Hilde Lysiak and Matthew Lysiak’s HILDE CRACKS THE CASE and William […]
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Mauro DiPreta will join the William Morrow group on March 4 as svp, executive editor, reporting to Liate Stehlik. He previously worked at HarperCollins for 16 years until 2011, and mostly recently was founder, vp and publisher of Hachette Books. Katya Shannon is stepping down this spring as vice president, special markets, Penguin Random House. She has been with the company since joining Putnam in 1980 as a field sales rep. Amanda Close will oversee special markets starting in May, in addition to her current role leading strategic market development. Hillary Brady has joined DK as digital marketing manager. She was […]
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Simon Green has joined Abrams Artists Agency to lead company’s book and publishing division. Green was at CAA, where he started the book department in 2009, until last spring. The agency says Green’s hiring “reflects [their] commitment to growing the company with distinguished agents as the agency continues to expand its roster of both agents and clients.” (Steve Ross, who started the book division for Abrams, created his own agency last fall.) Claire Roberts has founded her own literary agency, Claire Roberts Global Literary Management. In addition to author representation, the company also handles rights for a “select group of publishers and other literary agencies […]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has “realigned” its sales team. Ed Spade has been promoted to vp, national accounts, trade sales & strategy, co-leading the sales team with Colleen Murphy, vp, special markets, mass market, and product development. As a result, Maire Gorman, svp trade sales, has left the company. Additionally, Christine Sikule has joined HMH in the new role of director of sales analytics. She was previously metadata manager at Penguin Random House. Connor Guy joins Basic Books as editor on February 4. Most recently, he was associate editor at Metropolitan Books. In the UK, Amanda Ridout is launching Boldwood Books, publishing commercial fiction. The company […]
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Harper Children’s UK publisher Rachel Denwood will move to Simon & Schuster UK, where she will be managing director for the children’s publishing division, reporting to ceo Ian Chapman. Denwood will also join the publisher’s UK board. Chapman says, “Rachel is highly talented with a wealth of experience and great energy and passion for children’s books. She is the perfect publisher to take the helm of this vital and growing area of our business.” Denwood adds, “After ten happy and successful years at HarperCollins it is hard to say goodbye, but the opportunity to lead and build the gem-filled Simon […]