At Simon & Schuster, Brit Hvide has been promoted to associate editor. Sarah Bloxham has left Bonnier Publishing UK, where she was publisher of Weldon Owen, and is “available for work on a permanent, contract or consultancy basis.” She can be reached at bloxham.sarah@googlemail.com. Barbara Casey has joined Strategic Media Books as partner, and will be involved in acquisitions and company operations, and oversee book production. She also continues as president of the Barbara Casey Agency. Jesse Aylen has been promoted to assistant editor, Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press. Cindy Whittemore has rejoined Alive Literary Agency as contracts director, working out of her home […]
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Suzanne Donahue will leave Simon & Schuster, where she is vp, associate publisher, on December 27. She had held that position for the past two years, and before then was associate publisher at Free Press from 1997 through 2012. S&S publisher Jonathan Karp said in a statement: “In the past two years, I’ve had the privilege and pleasure of working with Suzanne. She has been an excellent colleague and an enthusiastic champion of our books, as well as a source of wisdom on Free Press and Simon & Schuster backlist. Please join me in thanking Suzanne for her many contributions to Simon […]
Scotton Tops January 2015 Indie Next List
The preview version of the January Indie Next List has The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Chris Scotton as indie booksellers’ No. 1 selection for the month. The rest of the list features: Descent, by Tim Johnston The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins The Magician’s Lie, by Greer Macallister Vanessa and Her Sister, by Priya Parmar The Rosie Effect, by Graeme Simsion The Bishop’s Wife, by Mette Ivie Harrison Almost Famous Women: Stories, by Megan Mayhew Bergman The Shock of the Fall, by Nathan Filer (previously published as Where The Moon Isn’t) The First Bad Man, by Miranda […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Nick Elliot has been promoted to assistant marketing manager. Chronicle Books will handle sales and distribution for UK-based illustrated books publisher Quadrille Publishing in North America, starting with the fall 2015 season. Quadrille plans to hire a US-based marketing and publicity executive and expects to publish approximately 20 titles a season for this market. Quadrille was acquired in 2013 by Australia’s Hardie Grant. Legato Publishers Group started selling and distributing Forest Avenue Press in the US as of December 1, and will distribute and sell Microcosm Publishing and Destination Press as of January 1. Quarto has entered into a distribution partnership agreement […]
People, Etc.: Durham to Leave Amazon
Publisher of adult trade and children’s at Amazon Publishing Daphne Durham will leave the company on January 16, PW reports, and will be replaced by head of global marketing for the publishing division Mikyla Bruder, who will serve as publisher for Montlake Romance, Thomas & Mercer, Skyscape, Lake Union, 47North and Jet City Comics. (Durham had taken over Larry Kirshbaum’s responsibilities when he prepared to leave Amazon Publishing in October 2013.) Longtime Kindle singles editor David Blum will take on additional responsibilities as publisher and editor-in-chief of Little A — the literary imprint that was run by Ed Park — and Two Lions, a […]
DBW Conference Gets Closer
We’re filling in the last couple of session slots for January’s big Digital Book World Conference on January 14 and 15, and the newest entry on the schedule is a panel exploring “Can Amazon Be Constrained, and Should They Be?” Ken Auletta of the New Yorker will moderate the session, with guests Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation (preparing a letter to the DOJ arguing “yes”), Annie Lowrey of New York Magazine (who wrote “Amazon might be a bad actor in the books market, but that does not make it a monopoly”), and author Barry Eisler, who publishes with […]