Crawford Doyle Booksellers will close its Upper East Side store on January 10 after more than 21 years in business. In an email to customers, owners Judy Crawford, John Doyle, and Thomas Talbot explained the store exceeded expectations — “our hope was to operate the store for ten years.” The operation is “not going out of business” entirely, as Doyle will “continue to sell first editions of Modern American and British Literature and other unique volumes” at his library on 21 E. 90 Street. Awards PEN America is releasing its award longlists daily over the course of this week, beginning Monday with […]
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After sharing office space and some employees for the past two years, agencies Kuhn Projects and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth are formally merging to form Aevitas Creative Management. They write in an announcement: “Our every hope is that Aevitas will carry forward the best practices and traditions of both agencies. We’re especially excited to create more growth opportunities for younger colleagues eager to spread their wings and be part of an organization that we’re confident will thrive for years to come. We remain a boutique enterprise, but a stronger and more capable one, with an ever more impressive list of clients, agents, […]
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Stephen Power will join Thomas Dunne Books as executive editor on December 5. Previously he was a senior editor at Amacom. Bret Kehoe has joined Sourcebooks as managing editor. Previously, he was lead editor at Questions Galore. Awards The National Book Critics Circle nominated six titles for their John Leonard Prize, given to a first book in any genre: The Mothers, by Brit Bennett The Girls, by Emma Cline Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi The Nix, by Nathan Hill Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter
15, Plus: Celebrating Another PM Milestone
The election pretty much ate November so we postponed marking the anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com for a month — but it’s a big one, so it shouldn’t go unmarked. Improbable as it sounds, it has been just over 15 years since we launched our site. It’s a little comforting, in an odd way, in these charged and uncertain times, to remember that we launched at what would commonly have been considered the very worst moment in history to initiate a paid online content business, or a new business of any kind. The NASDAQ began its two-year collapse in late 2000 so […]
New Paula Hawkins Novel Into The Water Publishes May 2, 2017
Riverhead, Transworld in the UK, and Doubleday Canada have announced that The Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins‘ much-anticipated next novel will be released on May 2, 2017. Into the Water is another novel of psychological suspense “about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets.” The set up: “When a single mother and a teenage girl each turn up dead at the bottom of the river, just weeks apart, the ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated history.” The US edition is listed as 352 pages long, priced at $27. A cover has been released for the UK edition, […]
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Jason Wells will return to Simon & Schuster Children’s in the new role of vp, marketing and publicity on December 7, after 14 years at Abrams Children’s. (He worked at S&S Children’s in the early 2000s.) VP, director of marketing Lucille Rettino will leave the company after working for the division for the more than 10 years. Wells will run what Children’s division president and publisher Jon Anderson calls “an expanded and unified publicity and marketing force, adding additional positions throughout the department…. Placing them both under the direction of Jason recognizes the remarkable talent he has shown throughout his career for nuts-and-bolts organization, […]