Fritz Foy has been promoted to president and publisher of Tom Doherty Associates, continuing to be based in Santa Monica and New York, as Tom Doherty moves into the role of chairman. Doherty said in the release, “Fritz has had an impressive career in publishing, first at Simon & Schuster, and for the last 21 years at Macmillan. He has had roles in sales, marketing, operations, technology, workflow, production, and analytics. He brings with him a passion for books and publishing. For the last decade he has been actively engaged with me at Tor Books.” Foy adds, “I am thrilled to […]
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April Buzz Books Monthly
With the continued success of our big Spring/Summer Buzz Books collection, we present the latest in our monthly sampler program, April Buzz Books Monthly. Available now for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley, the sampler includes exclusive, pre-publication excerpts of seven titles due out in April. Our April edition features four novels and three nonfiction titles. Fiction selections include Country Dark by Chris Offutt, followed by three debuts: We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt, This I Know by Eldonna Edwards, and The Oracle Year by Charles Soule. And the nonfiction excerpts include: The Fox Hunt: A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America by Mohammed Al Samawi, […]
Alexie Addresses Accusations, Apologizes “To the People I Have Hurt”
Following a growing tide of second-hand allegations on Twitter of harassment, with an accompanying tide of media investigating and making inquiries, author Sherman Alexie issued a statement on Wednesday in which he apologized broadly to “the people I have hurt,” admitting vaguely to making “poor decisions.” In the same statement, he directly and specifically “reject[s] the accusations, insinuations and outright falsehoods made by Litsa Dremousis, who has led the charges against me” on Twitter. Alexie says that he and Dremousis “had previously been consenting sexual partners,” ending that relationship in 2015. In late 2017, Alexie writes that Dremousis emailed his […]
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Jennifer Egan will succeed Andrew Solomon as president of PEN America. She will be the first to oversee the newly unified PEN America and PEN Center USA, which announced the completion of its consolidation into a single entity. Rachel Rosenfelt will join the New Republic as publisher and vice-president on March 12. She is the founder of online magazine The New Inquiry and has been creative director for Verso Books. CEO of BookPeople in Austin, TX Steve Bercu will retire from full-time bookselling in June. Elizabeth Jordan, who has worked at the store since 2002, has been promoted to general […]
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Shawn Foster has been promoted to executive director of children’s sales for Hachette Book Group. At Orbit, Ellen Wright has been promoted to associate publicity director. Sarah Stanton has joined Shambhala Publications as editor. Previously she was executive editor at Rowman & Littlefield. Noted Bertelsmann’s Offset Paperback Manufacturing facility in Wilkes-Barre, PA was evacuated Tuesday morning, “when employees fell ill from the release of a chemical commonly used in the printing industry.” Eleven employees went to the hospital with reportedly minor symptoms “in an abundance of caution.” The building was cleared for reopening later that day. Harper Lee‘s will was […]
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At Basic Books, Ann Kirchner has been promoted to designer; Connie Capone to associate publicist; Brian Distelberg to senior editor; and Carrie Napolitano to assistant editor. Justin Lovell and Miriam Riad have both been promoted to assistant editor at Da Capo Press. At Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal, Jessica Schmidt has been promoted to vp, associate publisher for Running Press; Frances Soo Ping Chow to creative director for all Running Press imprints; Frank Sipala to senior production manager and manager of product development; Shannon Connors Fabricant to senior editor; Amy Cianfrone to marketing and publicity manager; and Kara Thornton to senior publicist, focusing on Black Dog & Leventhal. Rosie Welsh, previously of the Jonathan Clowes Literary Agents and The Wylie Agency, will join Eccles […]