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Founding publisher of One Signal Julia Cheiffetz left Simon & Schuster last Friday.
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At Knopf, Kathy Zuckerman is promoted to VP, executive publicist.
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New Books Publishing January 16
Alex Michaelides publishes new fiction this week, while nonfiction includes work by Michele Norris. Also out this week are Nishita Parekh’s THE NIGHT OF THE STORM and Raymond Arsenault’s JOHN LEWIS: IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED COMMUNITY, both of which are excerpted in our Buzz Books anthologies. 15 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-january-16 8 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-january-16 From Buzz Books https://buzz.publishersmarketplace.com/ We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming months on Bookshop. Check out January‘s 80 fiction […]
Obituaries: Marc Jaffe, Michelle Somers
Former Bantam Books editorial director Marc Jaffe, 102, died on December 31. Early in his career, Jaffe was western & mystery editor at New American Library, publishing Gore Vidal and Mickey Spillane. Jaffe became editorial director at Bantam in 1961 and stayed for 19 years as the imprint became a force in paperback publishing, including William Peter Blatty’s THE EXORCIST. He later became vp at Random House and editorial director at Ballantine, and founded Villard Books, then founded an eponymous imprint at Houghton Mifflin. Later, Jaffe started Editorial Direction with his wife, Vivienne, and worked as a freelance editor and consultant until his […]