The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is the Costco Pennie’s Pick for April. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl and the featured debut is Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. Also on the list are Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Meredith May’s The Honey Bus, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Last Stone, by Mark Bowden Lights All Night Long, by Lydia Fitzpatrick A Woman of No Importance, by Sonia Purnell Hotbox, by Matt Lee […]
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Veronica Jordan has been promoted to executive vice president, general counsel of Simon & Schuster, reporting to president and ceo Carolyn Reidy. She succeeds Hazel-Ann Mayers, who moved over in February to evp, chief business ethics & compliance officer at CBS Corporation. Jennifer Weidman has been promoted to senior vice president, deputy general counsel. Reidy said, “It speaks volumes about Simon & Schuster and the overall strength of our legal department that in Veronica Jordan and Jennifer Weidman we have two such experienced, versatile and well-qualified attorneys in-house and at the ready to take on new and greater responsibilities in […]
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The U.S. Copyright Office named Karyn Temple register of copyrights. Temple has been the acting registrar since 2016. Lilla Weinberger, 78, co-owner of Readers’ Books in Sonoma, CA died on March 24. She founded the store with her husband Andy Weinberger in 1991. HarperCollins Italia launched its first children’s list, beginning with 25 titles in 2019. It plans to expand the list to 100 titles a year over the next few years. Sabrina Annoni, editorial director of HarperCollins Italia said, “HarperCollins has a strong history in Children’s publishing and remains one of its global leaders—we are excited to continue this […]
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Karen Murgolo has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent. Previously she was editorial director at Grand Central Life & Style. At Sourebooks, Heather Hall has been promoted to associate managing editor and Cassie Gutman to senior production editor. Twenty-First Century Books editorial director Domenica DiPiazza is retiring on March 29. She has been with the company for more than 27 years. Also at Twenty-First Century Books, Shaina Olmanson is being promoted to associate editorial director starting April 1. Copyright Law With a vote of 348 to 274, the European Parliament has passed the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive, […]
Bookselling: Daunt Responds to Waterstones Petition, and More
Waterstones managing director James Daunt responded further — and more skeptically — to the petition signed by more than 4,000 employees asking the company to increase pay for booksellers. Daunt said, “There’s a long gap between wanting to do something and it being remotely sensible,” adding, “If you raise the bottom level really significantly, then everybody all the way up the company has to go up, and then we go bust, which isn’t very helpful.” A group of 1,300 writers have also backed the campaign, but Daunt says they’re “[preaching] to the converted” and the company is “simply not profitable […]
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T.S. Ferguson, has joined Jimmy Patterson as editor. He was previously editor with Harlequin Teen/Inkyard Press. Olivia Peluso has joined The Experiment as associate editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Portfolio/Sentinel. At Sourcebooks, Ashlyn Keil has been promoted to marketing associate, children’s and YA. Katie Stutz has been promoted to author relations associate. Brittany Russell has been promoted to PR specialist at Amazon Publishing. Tess Callero has joined Europa Content as agent. She was previously with Curtis Brown. Film/TV At the Apple TV+ event on Monday, Oprah Winfrey announced that one of her projects for streaming service would be […]