At the Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint, Michelle Jasmine and Jessica Abell have both been promoted to associate publicist. And at S&S’s Howard Books imprint, Holly Halverson joined the company as senior editor (she was at the Hachette Book Group most recently), and Jessica Wong has been promoted to associate editor. VP of publicity Jennifer Willingham has been promoted to associate publisher, and Angie VanTassell has been hired as director of publicity. She was at Alday Communications most recently. Ashley Earnhardt has been promoted to publishing manager. At Simon & Schuster UK, a consolidation of Pocket Books into the […]
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DC's Politics and Prose Seeks New Owner
The news is now public that Washington, DC’s iconic Politics and Prose bookstore is up for sale. (At least one trade-related group has been in informal discussions with owners Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade recently.) Meade tells the Washington Post, “It’s time for us to stop and let somebody else take over for the future” as Cohen adds, “I just don’t have the energy like I used to.” Sadly, as the story quietly underscores, “Cohen is also seriously ill.” The store’s financials are said to be solid, though for some odd reason the newspaper chooses to cite recent sales number […]
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At Penguin Children’s, Camilla Sanderson has been appointed to the new position of vp, digital business development. She’ll “establish relationships with app and other developers to create the newest products for the group’s key brands and titles” and “explore the growing field of digital to try to ascertain the next potential formats and markets available.” Helen Boomer will be return to the company as vp, director of sub rights for Penguin Children’s, taking over from Sanderson. All Penguin Children’s rights will now be under a single director. Boomer was in rights at Viking and Puffin for 11 years before, most […]
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At Penguin Group USA, Heidi Graynor has been promoted to vp, sales administration. She has been with the company since 1983. At McClelland and Stewart, associate publisher for nonfiction Susan Renouf is retiring from the company as of June 30, though she will resume her consulting and editorial business. Christine Gillespie has been promoted to vp, associate publisher for Knopf, Pantheon and Schocken, continuing to report to Patricia Johnson. Sterling editor Alyssa Smith is reported to have lost her home to a fire in Union City, NJ that consumed three buildings. Rose Fox has a page with information, also seeking […]
Meyer's Bree Tanner Moves Over 350K In Two Days
Little, Brown Children’s says that they sold over 350,000 copies of Stephenie Meyer’s THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER in the first 48 hours of sale in the US. They also tabulate that 15,000 people around the world have read the free online version “in its entirety.” (In 2007 her third book ECLIPSE sold an estimated 150,000 copies in its first day; in 2008 the publisher estimated first day says for BREAKING DAWN of 1.3 million copies.) Publisher Megan Tingley says in the announcement “we have every confidence that with the upcoming Eclipse movie release that Bree’s shelf life […]
Farbey Joins Scholastic In New Global Nonfiction Post, and More People, Etc.
Scholastic has hired Miriam Farbey for the new position of global publisher, nonfiction in their trade publishing division. She will oversee all children’s trade nonfiction publishing, reporting to trade division president Ellie Berger. Farbey was most recently global publisher at DK. Based in Scholastic’s UK off, she started June 1. James Jayo is joining Globe Pequot Press as an editor for Lyons Press. He had been an associate manager of foreign rights at Crown and before that was an associate editor at Arcade. Anna Bliss is joining Globe Pequot Press as an editor-at-large for Lyons Press. She was previously at […]