Jamie Foxx‘s book, ACT LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE: And Other Things My Daughters Taught Me, revealing his “rocky parenting journey through priceless stories about the tough love and old-school values he learned growing up in the small town of Terrell, Texas,” will be published on October 19, by Grand Central.
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New Books Publishing June 15
Alex Michaelides, Nathan Harris, and Joshua Henkin lead this week’s fiction releases, while nonfiction includes titles from George Packer, Craig Melvin, and Ursula Burns. The Henkin is excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer edition. 12 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-june-15 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing__June_/219488 9 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-june-15 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_June_/219489 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit […]
Imprints: Burke and Hartson Create All Seasons Press
Louise Burke and Kate Hartson have launched a new publishing company, All Seasons Press, “to publish the best writers, politicians and pundits in the conservative movement.” The first list, debuting this fall, will feature RUSH ON THE RADIO, by Rush Limbaugh show producer James Golden; THE CHIEF’S CHIEF by Mark Meadows, former chief of staff for Donald Trump; and IN TRUMP TIME: MY JOURNAL OF AMERICA’S PLAGUE YEAR by Peter Navarro. Founder and publisher Burke was previously president and publisher of the Gallery Publishing Group at Simon & Schuster, where she co-founded the Threshold Editions imprint and tried to publish […]
People, Etc.
Celia Lee will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as executive editor. She was most recently senior editor at Orchard Books and Cartwheel Books. Stephanie Koven has joined Blackstone Publishing as head of foreign rights. Previously, Koven was an agent at Cullen Stanley International. Nicki Richesin has joined Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency as an agent. Previously she was at Wendy Sherman Associates.
People
Asanté Simons has been promoted to associate editor for William Morrow/Avon Books. Angela Messina has joined Basic Books as assistant publicity director. Most recently, she was publicity manager at Oxford University Press. In the UK, as part of the Queen’s birthday honors list, Allison & Busby co-founder Margaret Busby was named a CBE and Faber executive chair Stephen Page was awarded an OBE.
Obituaries
Lucinda Riley, 56, the bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series, died on June 11 of cancer. Jeremy Trevathan, managing director of Pan Macmillan’s adult publishing division, said, “It’s been an immense and very rare privilege to work with Lucinda. Popular fiction is often looked down on but when authors like Lucinda break through and strike an emotional chord with their readers that really is the joy of publishing. Lucinda had an enormous capacity for fun, friendship and love and I was honoured to call her a friend. I, and the whole team at Pan Mac, are so thankful to […]