Daniel Loedel will join Bloomsbury as senior editor, starting on January 6. He was at Scribner. Catherine Tung is now an associate editor at Beacon Press. She was an assistant editor at Vintage. Mary Gaule has been promoted to associate editor for Harper and Harper Perennial. Megha Majumdar was promoted to editor at Catapult. Associate publisher, sales & marketing at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Jenn Abel Kovitz announced on Twitter that she is leaving the company in mid-January. The Gernert Company has opened a West Coast office in Culver City. Seth Fishman is managing the new office after three years in Los […]
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Briefs: Neon Literary, Bloomsbury’s China JV, and More
Agency News Anna Sproul-Latimer and Kent Wolf have joined to launch Neon Literary, with offices in New York and Washington, DC. Sproul-Latimer has been at the Yoon Ross Agency for almost 15 years, and Wolf has been at the Friedrich Agency. They say in their announcement “it was the eventual realization that their clients were intersecting–on social media, at events, and in writing groups–that signaled to the two agents that coming together made perfect sense.” “Neon Literary is on a mission to dismantle the Big Ideas Industry, smuggling money, power, and frontlist glory out to authors who might not have […]
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Cecelia Cancellaro, founder of Word Creative Literary Services, will join Cambridge University Press in early December as senior editor in US and Latin American history, based in New York. Awards In the UK, the Costa Book Awards announced its shortlists in five categories. Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a finalist for the first novel prize, is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. Other nominees include: Novel Middle England, by Jonathan Coe (Knopf/Viking) Confession with Blue Horses, by Sophie Hardach (Head of Zeus) Starling Days, by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Sceptre) Shadowplay, by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker) […]
Thanks, and Giving
Since PublishersMarketplace.com was started just over 18 years ago (a year and half or so after we created Publishers Lunch), our constant focus has been on doing more for our members all the time. This year we have spent a lot of effort on explaining ourselves better — through deal reporting tips and policies, a big writer’s guide to PM, live tours and now a condensed video tour of some of our key features, and even a short video showing some of what’s behind the paywall for non-members. (We’ve also helped explain the business itself through the years-in-the-making new initiative […]
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At Trident Media Group, Martha Wydysh and Sulamita Garbuz have both been promoted to associate agents. Nora Rawn joins as foreign rights agent. She was most recently senior editor for Lonely Planet. The late Monika Schoeller, longtime publisher of S. Fischer Verlag and daughter of publisher Georg von Holtzbrinck, was remembered at a service in Germany on Monday. Best Of The New York Times Book Review released its list of 100 Notable Books of 2019. That joins the list of top 100 books from the Washington Post, and the big best books of the year package from the NY Public […]
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Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]