Lynn Coady‘s story collection Hell Going won the Giller prize on Tuesday night. Published in Canada by House of Anansi, it was the one book in contention that did not already have an announced US publisher. She was shortlisted in 2011 for THE ANTAGONIST, published in early 2012 by Knopf. Coady’s US agent Christy Fletcher told us that they “have serious interest and expect to close soon” on US rights for HELL GOING. Michael Signorelli will join Holt as senior editor on November. He has been at Harper Collins for over 8 years. At Holt he will focus on crime […]
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We’ll confess that this week’s exchange between MacKenzie Bezos and author Brad Stone only makes us more interested in Stone’s appearance at Digital Book World next January, as part of a block of programming focused on analyzing Amazon. This new page at the DBW conference site provides an overview of the Amazon-focused sessions, and also highlights two other “featured blocks” of new material. In response to suggestions from some of the C-level people who serve on the DBW advisory council, we’re featuring four sessions that present a structure view on “change management” (created with the help of consultant Carolyn Pittis, […]
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Founders and current editorial directors of Kar-Ben Publishing Judye Groner and Madeline Wikler will retire in December after nearly 40 years in publishing, beginning with the 1974 publication of MY VERY OWN HAGGADAH. Kar-Ben was acquired by Lerner Publishing in 2001 and became the company’s Jewish children’s book imprint. Kar-Ben publisher Joni Sussman said in a statement: “We thank Judye and Madeline for their enormous contribution to Kar-Ben and to the field of Jewish children’s books over the years, and for helping us to grow Kar-Ben into one of the largest and best known Jewish-themed children’s book publishers in the […]
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We’re feeling pleasantly pre-adolescent this week as we officially celebrate the twelfth anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com. As always, it’s hard to believe what a longer-than-expected journey this has become. It remains a privilege to serve and be part of a professional community we love, and your support and participation are the driving reasons for our existence. The founding mission of our site remains the same — to help people in publishing find each other and do business together through the internet (later refined to “solving information problems and creating information opportunities for book publishing professionals”). As does our founding promise, to […]
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Laura Ferguson will join Open Road Media later this month as vp, special markets. Previously, she was director of premium, corporate and customer driven publishing at Simon & Schuster. Emily Keyes has joined Foreword Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at the L. Perkins Agency. French spy novelist Gerard de Villiers, 83, died Thursday in Paris of pancreatic cancer. De Villiers was the author of 200 novels featuring CIA contractor Malko Linge, the first appearing in 1964 and the last published in France last month. Five of his novels will be published by Vintage beginning in 2014, […]
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At Harper UK, Susanna Frayn has been promoted to communications director. Sam Missingham will join the department in new role of head of events, and James Lewis has been promoted to communications content officer. At Bloomsbury USA, Laura Gianino has been promoted to publicist in the adult trade group, and Bridget Hartzler has been promoted to publicist in the children’s trade group. Linette Kim has been promoted to marketing manager, school and library in the children’s trade group. Jason Boog is leaving Mediabistro and Galleycat after five years to join True Pictures film company, leading the story investigation department. There […]