At Little, Brown, Sarah Murphy has been promoted to associate editor and Amanda Lang has been promoted to associate publicist. Carolyn Schwartz joins World Book Night US as director of development, replacing Erin Cox, who went to St. Martin’s as senior marketing manager. Schwartz was vp, director of advertising and promotion at the Random House publishing group. OverDrive has hired Lee Milstein as chief strategy officer, to help expand their digital media businesses into streaming video and education content and services, as well as direct the company’s overall strategy and strategic partnerships. OverDrive is also opening a New York office […]
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Former Farrar, Straus editor Courtney Hodell will take over as director of the Whiting Writers’ Awards, and Daniel Reid will serve as the foundation’s new executive director, as of November 1. Currently director of strategic planning at the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, Reid takes over from Kellye Rosenheim, who has worked for the Whiting Foundation since 1990. Hodell succeeds Barbara Bristol, who has run the awards for sixteen years. Foundation president Antonia Grumbach said in the announcement of Hodell: “With her distinguished editorial career and extensive work with writers in many genres–including literary fiction, memoir and biography, narrative nonfiction, […]
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Peggy Boulos Smith has joined the Jane Rotrosen Agency’s subsidiary rights division as global rights director. Previously she was an agent at Miller Bowers Griffin. In addition, Danielle Sickles has been promoted to global rights manager. At Graywolf Press, Marisa Atkinson has been promoted to publicity and events manager. Harper Lee‘s lawyer Gloria Phares issued a statement to us Thursday evening regarding the author’s recent settlement of her lawsuit against former agent Sam Pinkus: “Harper Lee has always been a very private person. Her case has ended as she desired: quickly, with her copyright secured to her, and a return […]
Simsion Tops Librarian List, Too
The new LibraryReads initiative has announced their second monthly list of librarian favorites for October. Their No 1. pick is Graeme Simsion’s novel, also the Indie Next top selection: Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion Longbourn, Jo Baker The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri Cartwheel, Jennifer duBois Hawthorn & Child, Keith Ridgway The Stop: How the Fight for Good Food Transformed a Community and Inspired a Movement, Nick Saul & Andrea Curtis We Are Water, Wally Lamb The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt The Tilted World, Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly Hunting Season: Immigration and Murder in an All-American Town, Mirta Ojito You can […]
NBF Names 5 (Women) Under 35
The National Book Foundation announced their closely-watched list of 5 Under 35 authors — and “for the first time, the group of authors are all women.” Two of the featured authors are not scheduled to publish until 2014: Rona Jaffe Award winner Merritt Tierce’s Love Me Back (Doubleday, fall 2014) and Stegner Fellow Molly Antopol’s The UnAmericans (Norton, February 2014). One title does not have an announced US publisher yet: Daisy Hildyard’s Hunters in the Snow, published by Jonathan Cape in the UK this summer. The other two were both highlighted/excerpted in previous Publishers Lunch Buzz Books collections: Current Booker […]
Solutions Just for Digital Editorial; Rights, Permissions & Royalties; and Digital Distribution
The real business of the digital transition isn’t so much the business model experiments that get press releases and “news” coverage day, but rather it’s finding and deploying the right digital services and solutions to produce, distribute and license your content. The right processes can save companies money and time, and maximize the new business opportunities that digital helps to power. Our new trio of Publishing Services “mini-conferences” on September 26, co-presented with Digital Book World, is laser-focused on learning about the solutions available in three key areas. There are lots of general digital events, but almost none that target […]