Karen Murgolo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director, lifestyle on May 26. She was most recently an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, after serving as editorial director of Grand Central Life & Style since its inception. Murgolo will oversee the HMH lifestyle and culinary editorial team. At Macmillan Children’s, Hayley Jozwiak has been promoted to senior managing editor; Ilana Worrell to senior production editor; Cassie Gonzalez to designer; and Debbie Cobb to senior coordinator. Marian Wood, former vice president and publisher of Marian Wood Books and Sue Grafton’s longtime editor, died last weekend. She began her career at […]
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Harper Sees Sales Slide, Earnings Gain
Sales at HarperCollins fell modestly in their fiscal third quarter, at $412 million, their fourth straight quarterly decline, $9 million lower than a year ago. The company said the drop was “primarily due to the difficult comparisons to the prior year, which had higher sales of Rachel Hollis’ titles,” along with a $3 million negative effect from foreign exchange. But EBITDA actually gained, at $55 million up $2 milllion, “primarily due to the different mix of titles.” Digital sales rose 3 percent compared to a year ago, “primarily due to growth in downloadable audiobooks,” and comprised 23 percent of consumer […]
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Alexis Nixon has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Berkley. KF Literary Scouting has been appointed adult scout for Hoffman und Campe in Germany, and will also continue scouting children’s and YA titles for Harper Germany. Relief The extended #SaveIndieBookstores campaign raised a total of $1.24 million. Events Book Expo said it will hold an extensive line-up of panels online May 26-29, including its Adult Buzz Panel and its Adult and Children’s Book Breakfasts (which have been moved to dinner time), and a number of BookCon virtual consumer events will follow over the weekend. More information will be announced soon. Meanwhile, we […]
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Marta Fleming has been promoted to director of international rights at Macmillan, working on St. Martin’s, Flatiron, Tor/Forge, and Celadon Books. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Courtney Littler becomes senior editor, focusing on Castle Point Books and the Griffin Puzzle Program, and Joe Goldschein has been promoted to vp, marketing & sales operations. At Macmillan Speakers Bureau, Chloe Volkwein was promoted to lecture agent. Forthcoming Knopf will publish TOGETHER IN A SUDDEN STRANGENESS: AMERICA’S POETS RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC on June 9 in ebook and audio, with a hardcover to follow in November. The book features new, mostly not-yet-published work by […]
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At Macmillan Audio, Morgan Ratner has been promoted to podcast marketing specialist and Emily Miller to digital associate. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Marissa Sangiacomo has been promoted to assistant marketing director; Michelle Cashman to senior marketing manager; D.J. DeSmyter to senior marketing manager; Allison Ziegler to senior marketing manager; Meaghan Leahy to senior marketing operations manager; Beatrice Jason to associate marketing manager; and Stephen Erickson to assistant marketing manager. Brenna English-Loeb has been promoted to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. Audio Yale University Press has launched Yale Press Audio, featuring one to four audiobooks a year with plans to “grow […]
New Books Publishing May 5
It’s another busy week for newly releasing titles ahead of Mother’s Day (even though our spreadsheet of changed pub dates for notable titles — publun.ch/pubdatechanges — has over 25 titles originally slated for publication today that were rescheduled). As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 19 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-may-5 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_May_5/215940 10 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-5-6f23356c-416c-4281-82f2-3c009f566658 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_May_5/215941 9 new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-may https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_May/215942