As we previewed the other day, you’ll see that we have revamped the new Deals pages at PublishersMarketplace.com, now sporting our cleaner, mobile-friendly layout and simplified navigational menus. The deal-related pages join everything jobs, all of the Lunch news, the rights board, and classifieds in our ongoing updating process to make as much of the site as possible adaptive to all screen sizes. Our mobile news app [m.publishersmarketplace.com], introduced last year, is still the best way to follow our most frequently updated items on your cellphone. Last week we announced our newly updated deal report form, which adds a variety […]
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May Buzz Books Monthly
Our monthly sampler program continues with May Buzz Books Monthly, available now for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. As always, the collection includes exclusive, pre-publication excerpts from titles publishing in May. A new bonus is full color cover images for selected titles in the month’s preview section, in addition to the excerpts. The latest installment features seven upcoming titles, including four novels, a debut, and one each nonfiction and young adult. Fiction excerpts include bestselling nonfiction author Sheila Heti’s novel Motherhood; Stephen McCauley’s My Ex-Life; internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman’s Tin Man; and Araminta Hall’s Our Kind of Cruelty. Aimee Molloy’s debut, The Perfect Mother, rounds […]
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Janine Barlow and Samantha Zukergood have both been promoted to assistant editor at Thomas Dunne Books. At Dutton, Jamie Knapp has been promoted to associate director of publicity, and Becky Odell moves up to associate publicist. James Hegberg has been promoted to senior online marketing manager at Sourcebooks. At Random House Children’s books, on the licensed & proprietary brands marketing team: Krister Engstrom has been promoted to assistant director, Tara Grieco moves up to associate marketing manager, and Jena Debois is now marketing coordinator. Sarah Gaydos will join Oni Press as editorial director of licensed publishing. She has been an editor at IDW Publishing. Rebecca Vnuk has joined LibraryReads […]
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Initiatives The New York City Mayor’s Office of Entertainment and Media’s One Book, One New York program will return for a second year. In April, NYC residents will vote online to determine the title that will be read city-wide, with the winner to be announced in early May. The nominees this year each feature a different neighborhood in NYC: If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan White Tears, by Hari Kunzru Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue When I Was Puerto Rican, by Esmeralda Santiago This year’s program is a partnership with New York Magazine and Vulture (a change from last year, when […]
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Josh Zajdman has joined Picador as senior publicist. He was previously a publicist at Media Connect. Lance Fensterman has been promoted to president of Global ReedPOP. Anita Shreve, 71, author of 20 books included The Pilot’s Wife and The Weight of Water, died of cancer Thursday at home in southern New Hampshire. She had announced her illness almost a year ago,writing on Facebook: “This is a hard post to write. I have so been looking forward to going on book tour for my new novel, The Stars are Fire, and had hoped to meet many of you on my travels.” Her latest […]
New and Improved Deal Reports
For the first time (I think) since we launched over 16 years ago, we have revamped the deal report form at PublishersMarketplace.com. It adds a variety of new fields and checkboxes to better accommodate the stream of deals we receive every day — now including fields for series, illustrators, and additional editors and agents, plus standardized ways to report territory along with auctions and pre-empts, and more. The new form is mobile-friendly, as part of our progressive revamp of key site pages, and the backend logic will help us to better compose the final deal posts and automatically tag your […]