Ashley Collom is joining Thompson Literary Agency as literary agent January 7. She was previously an agent and the head assistant at DeFiore and Company. Brian Garfield, 79, screenwriter and author of more than 70 books, died on December 29. Garfield’s book nonfiction book The Thousand-Mile War was a Pulitzer finalist, and his book Hopscotch won an Edgar. Bookselling NYC blog Bowery Boogie reports that McNally Jackson will not be moving from its original Prince Street location after all. The site initially reported last October that the store would be moving due to a rent increase, and at the time the […]
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Senior editor Ira Silverberg is leaving Simon & Schuster at the end of the year, after a little more than 3 years with the company. Publisher Jonathan Karp calls the forthcoming HARK by Sam Lipsyte, acquired by Silverberg, something “we expect to be one of our fiction highlights in 2019.” He notes, “Ira has been an ardent champion of his authors, a keen observer of international literary talent, and valued colleague.” Forthcoming Diana Gabaldon previewed her ninth book in the Outlander series, GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE, a couple of months ago but said she was still […]
One Last Offer
As we did around Thanksgiving, we are opening up PublishersMarketplace.com for a brief free trial, lasting through January 1 — which will be the last opportunity like this for quite some time, so feel free to share if you wish. And, as we noted before the holidays, PM members can load the simple PM News App on your mobile devices if you want to keep an eye on Lunch News, Deals, Automat stories, Jobs and more over the holidays. (The URL is m.publishersmarketplace.com.)
Take Us With You
One more pre-holiday message. As usual, Publishers Lunch will be suspended for a bit, while PublishersMarketplace.com remains open all the time and will be logging deals, news, jobs and other items as they come in, albeit at a more leisurely pace. (14 new jobs were posted this week alone if you are in the market for something new next year.) We expect to send one catch-up issue of the newsletter at the end of next week unless something compelling happens in the meantime. The best way to stay on top of things is always with a PublishersMarketplace.com membership: We still have […]
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Mike Evans will join McGraw-Hill on January 1 as chief financial officer. He was chief operating officer and CFO at Renaissance, which specializes in pre-K-12 learning analytics. Longtime associate art director at Knopf Peter Mendelsund has been named creative director of The Atlantic, and his frequent design partner Oliver Munday will become senior art director, with both starting in February. PW did not pick a “person of the year’ for 2018, instead honoring five people who were publishers of imprints with Trump books, and one editorial director: Eric Nelson, Broadside; Rolf Zettersten, Center Street; Steve Rubin, Holt; Jonathan Karp, Simon & […]
Briefs
At Lerner Publishing Group, Rachel Zugschwert has been promoted to vp, marketing, and Greg Hunter to editorial director, Graphic Universe, both effective January 1, 2019. Forthcoming Zadie Smith‘s first short story collection GRAND UNION will be published by Penguin Press in fall 2019, and in the UK by Hamish Hamilton on October 3, 2019. It will contain ten new stories, as well as 10 more of “her very best, drawn from two decades of remarkable short fiction.” Initiatives Boston creative writing center GrubStreet has been selected by the city to open a new “civic-cultural space” on the first and second floors of Fifty […]