At becker&mayer!, as of April 1 Jim Becker will serve as president and publisher of the book packager, including overseeing SmartLab and other educational initiatives, while Andy Mayer will focus on new business development as publisher of Epic Ink, which produces high-end collectible books, and director of becker&mayer! productions, which develops and delivers innovative book-related products directly to retailers. Anna Erikson has joined The Creative Company as vp of retail sales to manage the Creative Editions and Creative Paperbacks imprints. Previously she was at Chronicle Books as director of distribution client services. At Harlequin, Emily Rodmell has been promoted to […]
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Pete Bohan will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior marketing manager, retail on January 24, based in New York. He previously worked as marketing manager at Chronicle. Children’s publisher Blue Apple Books will move distribution to Random House Publisher Services from Chronicle Books, effective July 1, 2011. Accenture chairman and former ceo William (Bill) D. Green is joining the board of directors of McGraw-Hill. Peter Costanzo is joining F+W Media as director of digital content. He was previously director of online marketing at the Perseus Books Group. Author and critic Wilfrid Sheed, 80, “the wittily satirical man of letters […]
People, Etc.: Poets & Writers Honorees Include Grisham, Galassi; Edgar Award Nominees; and More
John Grisham, Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Elizabeth Nunez will receive Poets & Writers 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Jonathan Galassi will be honored with their Editor’s Award. Poets & Writers executive director Elliot Figman says of Galassi, “one can hardly imagine contemporary American literature without him.” The awards will be presented at their benefit dinner on March 2. Grisham is being recognized for having “done much to enrich the literary tradition of the American South. He was the publisher and principal investor in The Oxford American, and has endowed scholarships and writers’ residencies at the University […]
People, Announcements, Etc.: Investment Answer Author Dies; RH Launches Online Book Club Videos
Gordon Murray, who attracted attention recently for self-publishing success with THE INVESTMENT ANSWER, a short book of investment advice he co-authored when he learned he had terminal brain cancer, died on Saturday. The 60-year-old suffered from glioblastoma. The book will be republished by Business Plus on January 25. Random House is working with Pulpwood Queens Book Club founder and author Kathy Patrick to start an online book club featuring interviews with RH authors. The first season has 12 episodes planned, featuring authors including Pat Conroy, Fannie Flagg, Lisa See, and Susan Vreeland. A new episode will be posted weekly at […]
Still More Cuts As Borders Lays Off Another 45 People; Laredo Hopes to Land BAM
This time Borders has eliminated another 40 jobs from their Ann Arbor headquarters, and another 5 jobs at their distribution centers, announced on Monday. Spokesperson Mary Davis told the Detroit Free Press, “The realignment at the store support center encompasses nearly all business areas, including IT, human resources, finance and merchandising. This decision is a result of Borders’ focus on reducing costs and readjusting its business model to improve profitability and cash flow.” In better bookstore news, lobbying from Laredo, TX to entice a major bookstore to the city following the closure of their last new bookstore of scal, a B. […]
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At Headline, Jonathan Taylor has been appointed Publishing Director for Non-Fiction, effective March 7. He will also join the Headline board. Previously he was Publishing Director for HarperCollins UK. Simon & Schuster announced that Jeffery Deaver’s contemporary-set James Bond novel, due to be published in May, will be titled CARTE BLANCHE and is set in Dubai.AP Two months after circulating the possibility that Bob Dylan was looking to move to Simon & Schuster for a new book deal, Crain’s New York reports the singer has done just that with a new six-book-contract.Crain’s Similarly, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has signed […]