Analieze Cervantes and Jennifer Herrington have joined Harvey Klinger as associate agents, where they will focus on YA and adult fiction. They were previously at Corvisiero Literary. Karey Circosta has been promoted to publisher and chief executive officer of Ave Maria Press, starting August 31, the first woman to serve as publisher of the press…
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People, Etc.: Lucas to Run Pantheon and Schocken
Executive Director of the National Book Foundation Lisa Lucas will take over Pantheon and Schocken Books as svp, publisher — though not until “completing her work with the NBF at the end of 2020.” She will report to Reagan Arthur, who says in the announcement, “When I thought about Pantheon’s rich legacy and imagined ways…
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NetGalley launched a mobile app for Apple and Android for the first time. At the same time, they formally added audiobooks to their service as well. The Readium-based app allows for DRM for ebooks, but DRM is currently not available for audiobook files. The app serves as a reader for downloaded ebooks and plays the…
New Books Publishing July 14
Besides the court-released Mary Trump, this week brings new books by David Mitchell, Colin Jost, and many others. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 22 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-14 9 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-14 More new children’s and…
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Jessica Felleman has joined Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. She was previously an agent at Foundry Literary + Media. Jolene Haley has joined Marsal Lyon Literary Agency as a literary agent. She was previously at Corvisiero Literary Agency. Allison Huggins has been promoted to senior manager of foreign rights and co-editions for Workman Publishing, Algonquin Books,…
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Donald Trump remains remarkably effective at boosting the sales of books he tries to block. As of June 30 Simon & Schuster told the court they had printed and started shipping approximately 75,000 copies of Mary Trump‘s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH — and yesterday in a new afffadavit the publisher said they have printed…