Kate Garrick has joined The Karpfinger Agency as an agent. Previously she was an agent at DeFiore and Company, and will bring her list of clients to the Karpfinger Agency. In the UK, Profile publishing director Mike Jones is leaving the office just a year after joining it, by “mutual consent” according to the Bookseller. He will work on some manuscripts from home and formally leave the company in September. Target‘s Book Club pick for August is Orphan Number Eight by Kim Van Aklemade.
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New Leadership for Jonathan Cape
In the UK, Jonathan Cape publishing director Dan Franklin will step down at the end of year, with current Harvill Secker deputy publishing director Michal Shavit taking over from Franklin. Current editorial director Alex Bowler will move up to deputy publishing director, and Robin Robertson will be associate publisher. Franklin will take the title of associate publisher in January 2016 and “will continue to look after all his current authors,” working three days a week. Shavit will report to Vintage managing director Richard Cable in her new position, and a new editorial director for Harvill Secker “will be appointed in due course.” Cable […]
Watching the WATCHMAN Excerpts in Multiple Countries
Just after midnight EDT the opening chapter of Harper Lee’s GO SET A WATCHMAN was excerpted simultaneously in the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Sydney Morning Herald, accounting for the major English-language territories in which the book will be published July 14. Each outlet also included an audio transcript of Reese Witherspoon reading the opening chapter, which begins: “Since Atlanta, she had looked out the dining-car window with a delight almost physical. Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia’s hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it tin-roofed houses set in the middle […]
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At Crown, Annsley Rosner is being promoted to vp, associate publisher for Crown, Hogarth, Archetype, Tim Duggan Books, Broadway Books, and Three Rivers Press, as August 17, reporting to Molly Stern. Rosner is taking on many of the current duties and responsibilities of Figment.com co-founder and ceo Jacob Lewis, who is leaving his position as publishing director on August 14 to launch another start-up. Rosner will “partner” with Stern “on both the long-term development and day-to-day management of our front-list fiction and non-fiction programs, and “lead the trade paperback publishing programs for Broadway Books and Three Rivers Press with a mandate to grow this important part of our […]
People: ICM Pairs with Helen Brann Agency
ICM announced “it has entered into a succession plan with The Helen Brann Agency,” while Helen Brann, 82, continues to work along with ICM in representing her clients. Brann says in the announcement, “Although I have no plans to retire from this job I love, I thought it important to put a plan in place to ensure the future success of my clients, and Esther [Newberg] and her team at ICM became the apparent choice to work alongside me in this process. I’m proud to work with them to represent my clients.” Brann already works with Newberg on books commissioned with the Robert Parker estate (represented […]
People, Etc.
At Trident Media Group, Tara Carberry has been promoted to associate agent, continuing to work with Kimberly Whalen and Erica Spellman Silverman. Dawn Ryan has been promoted to managing editor for Knopf Children’s. KF Literary Scouting is now scouting children’s, young adult, and new adult titles on behalf of Bayard in France and Harper Germany, both in the areas of (while continuing to scout for separate adult publishers in both territories). The Frankfurt Book Fair announced the 16 Fellows for this year, including Sarah Bowlin at Holt and Anna Kelly at Fourth Estate, along with such editors as Liciane Correa, Aurelia Goyens, Diana Hernandez […]