Last year we quietly added a Screenshot View to every new deal to help make it easy to capture and share individual reports — but as usual, creative authors (and their friends) are leading the way in innovation. So far, we have seen at least three of these deals as mugs:
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David Drake has been promoted to president of Crown, and Gillian Blake moves up to publisher. Kara Welsh is promoted to president of a newly-renamed Ballantine Books, which comprises Ballantine, Bantam, Dell, and Delacorte imprints, and Jennifer Hershey moves up to publisher of Ballantine. Chris Jackson is promoted to executive vice president, publisher, One World and RocLit 101. Also within the Random House Publishing Group, Scott Shannon, executive vice president, publisher of Del Rey, will expand his role to also become director, strategy. Tricia Narwani is now editor-in-chief at Del Rey, and Keith Clayton moves up to vp and publishing director, licensed […]
People: Richman to Co-Lead Media Rights at UTA, Trimmer to Head MTV Books Relaunch
UTA has promoted book-to-film agent Jason Richman to co-lead its Media Rights Group, alongside Keya Khayatian. Richman has been at UTA since 2010. The agency says that the department has closed over 250 deals in the past year, licensing literary properties for film and TV. Separately, Christian Trimmer will lead a relaunch of MTV Books. Trimmer will report to MTV Entertainment president of content and chief content officer Nina Diaz. The imprint will publish in partnership with Simon & Schuster, housed within the branded publishing group of Simon & Schuster Children’s, with director of branded publishing Kara Sargent as the […]
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Ian Hudson has joined Bloomsbury as managing director of the consumer publishing division and executive director on the Bloomsbury executive committee. He was most recently ceo of DK, and stepped down last March “to recharge his batteries before embarking on the next stage of his career.” Hudson fills the position vacated by longtime Bloomsbury executive Emma Hopkin, currently managing director of Bloomsbury Consumer Publishing, will left the company at the end of 2020 “following an assessment of the future business needs of the consumer division.” Jayme Boucher joins Hachette Book Group on January 20 as director of their speakers bureau. Established […]
New Books Publishing January 12
A broad selection of books publish today, including Victoria Gosling’s Before the Ruins, featured in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2020 sampler; a masterclass on Russian short stories from George Saunders; Adam Jentleson’s all too timely Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy; and more. 26 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-12 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_January_/218607 15 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-12 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_January_/218607
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Jayme Boucher joins Hachette Book Group on January 20 as director of their speakers bureau. Established in 2009 in partnership with Greater Talent Network, Hachette Speakers Bureau relaunches this year as an in-house venture, under Boucher’s leadership. She was a founding member and senior leader of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. Jessica Renheim has been promoted to senior acquisitions editor at Crooked Lane Books and Alcove Press, acquiring crime and book club fiction. Selihah White has joined Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press as publicist. Joy Fowlkes has joined The Gernert Company’s Los Angeles office as podcast agent, representing […]