Hannah Rahill has been promoted to senior vice president, backlist strategy and development at the Random House Group, reporting to Gina Centrello. She will collaborate with cross-functional teams including RH Digital, RH Analytics, Consumer Insights, and Sales Management, to collect and distill emerging trends and market data and identify opportunities. Dave Snow, vice president, human resources, at Simon & Schuster will lead S&S human resources and the Rockefeller Center facilities department, reporting to Carolyn Reidy. The human resources staffs in New York and Riverside, as well as the facilities staff in New York, will report to Snow, who will also […]
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Holly Harris will join Simon & Schuster UK as publishing director, non-fiction, adult publishing division, starting July 6. She is currently editorial and media development director at Penguin Random House UK children’s division. Crooked Lane has a multi-year agreement with Dreamscape Media for production and distribution of audiobooks. Relief Poets & Writers has created a COVID-19 Relief Fund to “provide emergency assistance to writers having difficulty meeting their basic needs.” They will provide grants of up to $1,000 to approximately 80 writers in April. The board allocated $50,000, which has been supplemented by gifts from supporters including Michael Piestch […]
New Books Publishing April 14
Even with the many changes in spring pub dates that we continue to track and update at publun.ch/pubdatechanges, a healthy wave of new books comes to market today. As we have done the past couple of weeks, we are ready to call attention to a number of notable titles publishing today in need of attention and support. Our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of: 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-14 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Fiction_Publishing_April_14/177839 13 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-14 https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_April_14/177840 More new children’s/YA books https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-april https://aerbook.com/store/publishers_lunch/New_Childrens_Titles_Publishing_April_7/177841
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At Viking/Penguin Books, Rebecca Marsh has been promoted to associate director of publicity. Shelby Meizlik has joined as executive publicist. Tricia Lawrence has been promoted to senior agent at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Awards The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced recipients for its highest honors for excellence in the arts, including two of last year’s Pulitzer-winning authors. Richard Powers will receive the William Dean Howells Medal for THE OVERSTORY. The prize is “given every five years for the most distinguished American work of fiction published during that time.” Yale professor David Blight, author of six books on slavery, […]
Free Resources: More Updates
We continue to update our sharable, free web pages on resources and measures the publishing community is taking. Keep us up to date with your submissions as you add initiatives and information. In addition to these reference pages, we’ve almost logged a number of updates to our spreadsheet of notable spring pub dates that have changed, arranged by original release date: publun.ch/pubdatechanges. How to help booksellers — and authors [http://publun.ch/supportBooksellers] How educators can get publisher permissions [http://publun.ch/permissions] How students can access educational books for free [http://publun.ch/students] How the industry is aiding booksellers with special terms [http://publun.ch/specialterms]
Relief Given, and Still Needed
First Book says its Covid-19 Action Response has shipped 1.3 million books and distributed digital access codes for more than 2 million children, all donated by publishers and related organizations. CEO Kyle Zimmer, president, CEO and co-founder of First Book. “These books are so meaningful. They super-charge learning for kids in need, who are particularly vulnerable right now—when schools closed, these kids lost a place that was not only providing education, but so many different forms of critical support…. Not a day goes by that we aren’t grateful to our publishers.” Coffee House Press will commission original, short, digital works […]