Edite Kroll will transfer her active children’s book clients to Victoria Wells Arms at Wells Arms Literary (working in association with Hannigan Salky Getzler), effective January 1. Kroll will continue to work with her children’s backlist and adult trade clients. Gail Brussel has been promoted to assistant publicity director at the Penguin Press. The just-launched “web-based” “cyber publisher” Blake Freeman Johnson has already changed its name — to Soho Friday Media. Former longtime children’s book publishing executive Kaylee N. Davis, 63, died on Tuesday. Most recently she was licensing manager for North America and Latin America at Parragon Publishing, following a series […]
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Alex Levenberg has been promoted to global rights director at Amazon Publishing. Quotable The WSJ looks at a number of successful independent publishers and some of their high-impact books. Founder of the UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions Jacques Testard — who bought Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time before she won the Nobel, and also published Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk’s Booker International Prize-winning Flights — says,”Publishing is extremely tough financially. It’s basically like digging a hole in the ground and chucking money in.” But, “If I publish your debut and we sell 600 copies, I’ll still do the next one, and the one after that. […]
November Picks
Amazon‘s November spotlight pick is Elevation by Stephen King and their featured debut is My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. The rest of the list: Wolves of Eden, by KevinMcCarthy Nine Perfect Strangers, by Liane Moriarty Vita Nostra, by Sergey and Marina Dyachenko Those Who Knew, by Idra Novey Beastie Boys Book, by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz Dark Sacred Night, by Michael Connelly The Formula, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Big Week, by James Holland Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction picks for the month also includes the Moriarty, as well as: Past Tense, by Lee Child Fire & Blood, by […]
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At Workman, Laura Marciniak has been promoted to digital production associate for the Workman. Erin Kibby has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Margaret Kelly has joined Sourcebooks as customer service manager. Bonnier Books UK group commercial director Julian Shaw is leaving to pursue other opportunities. He has been with the company since 2014. Carlo Carabba will join Harper Italia as executive editor, Italian fiction starting November 19 and reporting to editorial director Sabrina Annoni. He was most recently editor-in-chief of the Italian fiction department at Mondadori. Pearson has hired Deirdre Latour as chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to ceo John Fallon, starting January 1. She […]
Call for Season Preview Listings
As always, our forthcoming Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer and Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer samplers each will include extensive seasonal preview/overview listings of notable titles on the way. We compile these big roundups by looking at publisher catalogs, our own comprehensive monthly lists of significant forthcoming books; hints from our substantial flow of deal reports; aggregation of “anticipated books” lists from other publications; word-of-mouth within the industry; and more. If you have notable spring/summer titles you would like to have considered for the preview list — particularly ones you are concerned we might have missed from the regular signals, […]
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Claudia Gabel has been promoted to editorial director at Harper Children’s. Amy Stapp is joining Wolfson Literary Agency as of November 1. She was previously an editor with Macmillan/Tor. Jason Kirk has been promoted to executive editor at Amazon’s 47North and Skyscape imprints. Maria Mann has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity associate. She was previously at Page Street publishing. At Chronicle Books, Julia Marvel has joined as designer, children’s. Previously she was associate designer at Abrams Books. Patrick Rafanan has joined as marketing photographer and visual content coordinator. Previously he was an ecommerce photographer at Randa Accessories. Wendy Thorpe […]