Lauren Wein will join Avid Reader Press as editorial director on June 24, where she will acquire both fiction and nonfiction, and will oversee a fiction program for the new imprint. She has been executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Erin M. Berger will join Scholastic Trade as senior vice president of marketing, starting June 17. Most recently she was vp, creative marketing director at Penguin Children’s. Sue Berger Ramin will join Brandeis University Press in the newly created position of director, starting July 1. She was previously associate publisher at David R. Godine. Stephanie Winter has been promoted to […]
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Goodreads co-founder and editor in chief Elizabeth Khuri Chandler has “decided to move on to my next chapter” after 12 years with the company. Larisa Helena joined Callisto Media as foreign rights manager. (She was a subsidiary rights manager at Pippin Properties.) In honor of Bob Bernstein‘s remarkable life and legacy, the Bernstein family has arranged for a celebration of life event on Tuesday, June 25t from 6:00-8:30 PM, at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. They ask that you please RSVP to BernsteinRSVPJune25@gmail.com if you are able to attend. Distribution Two Rivers will handle sales and distribution as of August […]
Representation and Hope for the Future at the Children’s Author Breakfast
Book Expo wound down on Friday with Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush moderating the children’s breakfast, and promoting their new picture book Sisters First. Barbara told the audience that they conceived of the picture book before their 2017 memoir of the same name, but that that “after waking up the day after election night 2016” they wanted to put the book for adults out first to inspire women and “celebrate sisterhood.” The conversation again turned to representation in publishing when Tomi Adeyemi (Children of Virtue and Vengeance) took the stage. Adeyemi spoke about the narratives she’d loved as […]
People, Etc.: Book Co-Authored with Tony Robbins Is Dropped
Tony Robbins‘ longtime publisher Simon & Schuster declined to comment earlier this month when BuzzFeed first dropped their expose alleging inappropriate sexual advances with employees and more. But now the planned July release of THE PATH: Accelerating Your Journey to Financial Freedom, by Peter Mallouk, writing “with” Robbins as co-author, will not be published. A source at Simon & Schuster confirms, “We are not proceeding with publication of The Path.” Robbins’ lawyers insist the book was “postponed” and tell BuzzFeed that Simon & Schuster has not cut ties with him: “To state or suggest otherwise is absolutely false.” Dana Renert […]
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Kirkus Reviews editor in chief for over six years Claiborne Smith is resigning to “focus on writing books” and supporting the San Antonio Book Festival, where he will be literary director. Newsday books editor Tom Beer will take over at Kirkus on June 17, reporting to ceo Meg Kuehn. She says in the announcement, “Tom Beer brings the literary sensibility Kirkus; readers have come to expect from us along with experience and keen instincts for reporting on books in a way that connects with reading enthusiasts.” Sourcebooks has hired Molly Cusick, as editor for Jabberwocky, Young Readers, and Fire; and […]
Books Are Sidelined at the Expo, But ABA Membership Has Modest Gain
The AP runs their traditional Book Expo preview, and they concur with our advance piece on a quiet show that has a reduced profile for books, authors and publishers as “the sideline part of the business will be a main attraction.” Designed to appeal to a portion of the 1,000 or so booksellers who will attend, the AP underscores that sidelines comprise about 20 percent of store sales. The ABA will report annual statistics at the show. They have modest gains, adding a net 52 members to 1,887 in all. Member stores now comprise 2,524 locations, compared to 2,470 in […]