As part of our continuing work on revamping the deals submission form, thanks to user feedback we have now launched a separate, dedicated reporting form for translation rights sales. The new form lets you report anywhere from 1 to 6 territory sales in a single report (and for more, just fill out a second form). We’ll be listing buyers by country, and there’s a dropdown menu to make that selection easy and consistent — and that will help us unlock some more reporting magic for you soon. Use the regular form for sales in the US, Canada and the UK. […]
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At Berkley, Jen Monroe has been promoted to associate editor. Lily Choi and Grace House have both been promoted to assistant editor. Cassie Gonzales has joined Farrar, Straus Children’s and Roaring Brook Press as associate designer. Previously, she was assistant designer at Little, Brown Children’s. Proposals Creator of the “Sh—y Media Men” list Moira Donegan has a book proposal “following in the tradition of her sharp, insightful work on gender and feminism today,” represented by Monika Woods at Curtis Brown. Distribution The University of Pennsylvania Press has signed with Ingram Academic Services for warehousing, distribution and other services. Bookselling Politics and Prose will open their “intimate” […]
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Brandi Larsen will leave DK, where she was most recently vp, publishing, on June 22 to relocate to Cleveland, Ohio, where she will focus her time on coaching and her personal passion for writing. She may be reached at brandilarsen@gmail.com. At Random House Children’s, Dani Valladares has joined as editor for the Rodale Kids imprint. She was previously associate editor at Little, Brown Children’s. Kate Keating has been promoted to senior director, digital marketing. Liz Wetzel will join Basic Books on June 18 as director of publicity. Previously she was publicity manager at Crown. Wetzel succeeds Betsy De Jesu, who is leaving Basic Books on June […]
Novik’s Spinning Silver Tops July’s Library Reads
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is the top pick for July’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Zoje Stage’s Baby Teeth, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available for download now. The rest of the picks: Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler Dear Mrs. Bird, by AJ Pearce Give Me Your Hand, by Megan Abbott Believe Me, by JP Delaney Caught in Time, by Julie McElwain Somebody’s Daughter, by David Bell The Romanov Empress, by C. W. Gortner Fruit of the Drunken Tree, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Laura Brown has joined Park Row Books as editor, moving over from the Harper imprint. Opening Sales THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by Bill Clinton and James Patterson sold approximately 152,000 hardcovers in the first week on sale, as tracked by Bookscan through the outlets they monitor. The co-publishers trumpet it as the best first week sale for a work of adult hardcover fiction since two years ago. Hachette Book Group ceo Michael Pietsch says in the release, “By any measure, this was a terrific opening week of sales, one that exceeded even our own optimistic projections.” Knopf Doubleday chairman Sonny […]
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Dan Vidra has joined HarperCollins as associate director on the international sales team, managing US division sales in the open market. He replaces Alison Smith, who took over closed market sales. Vidra had a long career in international book sales, and worked for txtr and its various successor companies for the past six years. Julia Kardon has joined Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency as an agent, where she will focus on literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was previously an agent at Mary Evans. William LoTurco has launched LoTurco Literary, a literary agency focused on nonfiction. He was previously an agent at Aevitas Creative […]