At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Angela Zurlo has been promoted to production manager for the Books for Young Readers and Paul Wiseman imprints, effective June 1. Navah Wolfe and Julia Maguire have been promoted to associate editor, BFYR. In addition, Richard Ackoon moves up to executive coordinator, Laura Roode has been promoted to associate art director, and Krista Olsen moves up to design associate. Knopf announced that in six weeks, they have sold over 10 million units (in all editions) of EL James’s three FIFTY SHADES books. They have printed 9.5 million books so far, available in 15,000 physical retail […]
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Jessica Zimmerman has joined S&S’s adult trade imprint as senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Center Street. Danny Yanez has joined Franklin & Siegal Associates as literary scout. He was previously at Vintage/Anchor. Jimmy Fallon has been added to the lineup for the BEA Author Breakfast on Thursday morning (June 7), making a “special ‘guest appearance,'” to promote his THANK YOU NOTES 2, which publishes today. Canongate rights director Polly Collingridge will leave to the company to relocate to San Francisco (as her husband Peter Collingridge joins Safari Books Online). She has been with Canongate for 11 years. […]
The “Big Book” of BEA
As the AP covered this morning, Publishers Lunch has launched what is truly the “big book” of this year’s BEA: a free ebook that presents over 30 meaty excerpts from books that will be featured at the convention and highly-touted fall releases of all kinds. Before you see (or watch the video stream) of BEA marquee speakers Junot Diaz, Barbara Kingsolver, JR Moehringer and Neil Young, you can read samples from their books. We have official Buzz Panel book Shani Boianjiu’s The People of Forever Are Not Afraid, along with more promising debut novelists than fit on any panel (including […]
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Cambridge University Press chief operating officer since 2010 Peter Phillips moves up to chief executive of the publisher, taking over from Stephen Bourne as he gives up the top position as planned though continues to work with the Press. Phillips had previously been on the board of UK communications and media regulator Board of Ofcom, and served as coo for BBC News and director of business development for the BBC in the past. For Neil Young‘s high-profile interview at BEA on Wednesday, June 6, it has been announced that author and musician Patti Smith will be the one asking the questions. (Seating at the lunchtime […]
People: Harlequin Reorganizes Marketing Channels Into Single Digital Unit
Earlier this month Harlequin reorganized its North American digital, retail, direct-to-consumer, and physical sales and marketing channels into a single division, which will be spearheaded by Craig Swinwood, named coo of the entire division. “By bringing these groups together under a single division, we wanted to strengthen the focus on the customers, enjoy the synergies of the marketing group and help build Harlequin’s brand further,” Swinwood told us Friday morning. “We’re committed to being available wherever, whenever, and however women want to shop.” As part of the reorganization, Brent Lewis, now executive vp digital and retail marketing, will oversee a […]
Awards: Rea Award to Baxter; Carnegie Nominates Lauded Authors
The twenty-fifth Rea Award for the Short Story has gone to Charles Baxter. The prize recognizes a US or Canadian writer who has “made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.” Baxter’s works include six published collections of stories. The jurors wrote (in part), “Baxter’s stories have especially shown an acute feeling for the landscape of marriage, childhood, and art.” Announcement The new Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced the finalists for the two awards: Nonfiction Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie The Information: […]