The children’s bookstore connected to Newtonville Books The Lizard Tale, in Newton, MA is up for sale. Newtonville Books owner Mary Cotton notes, “We just renewed the lease, so we can pursue this sale in a leisurely manner with the hope of finding someone whose passion for children’s literature matches my passion for adult literature and the literary programming we provide the community through Newtonville Books.” The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association has given voice to the concerns of their members in an open letter to publishers: “Restricting field reps to large stores will give publishers a skewed view of […]
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Robin Dennis is joining Oneworld Publications as Oneworld as a senior commissioning editor for popular science, social science, psychology, and current affairs. Previously, she was a senior editor at Times Books. Martha Guzman has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency as the contract/subsidiary rights manager. She previously worked as associate manager, domestic rights at Random House. Caroline Hardman has moved to the Christopher Little Literary Agency as an agent. She was at The Marsh Agency for six years. William Preston joins Sourcebooks in the new position of senior account executive – mass market and new business development. He has previously served […]
To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community
Editors’ note: This message ran as a paid advertisement in a special Saturday edition of Publishers Lunch To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent communityFrom: John Sargent This past Thursday I met with Amazon in Seattle. I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for e books under the agency model which will become effective in early March. In addition, I told them they could stay with their old terms of sale, but that this would involve extensive and deep windowing of titles. By the time I arrived back in New York late yesterday afternoon they informed […]
People: Rucci to Putnam, and More
Marysue Rucci will move to Putnam on March 15 as editorial director where she will “build her own roster of authors and help the Putnam imprint acquire and develop new bestselling franchises both in fiction and nonfiction.” Rucci will report to president Ivan Held (and editor-in-chief Neil Nyren, Amy Einhorn and Marian Wood will also continue to report to Held). Rucci has been executive editor at Simon & Schuster, where she has worked for 13 years. Brendan Deneen has joined Thomas Dunne Books as an editor. He was an agent at FinePrint Literary. Nicole Reardon has been promoted to associate […]
March 2010 Indie Next Picks
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand: A Novel by Helen Simonson (Random House, $25, 9781400068937)One Amazing Thing: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Voice, $23.99, 9781401340995)Horns: A Novel by Joe Hill (Morrow, $25.99, 9780061147951)One Good Dog: A Novel by Susan Wilson (St. Martin’s, $22.99, 9780312571252)The Surrendered: A Novel by Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead, $26.95, 9781594489761)The Journal Keeper: A Memoir by Phyllis Theroux (Atlantic Monthly, $24, 9780802118974)The Dream of Perpetual Motion: A Novel by Dexter Palmer (St. Martin’s, $24.99, 9780312558154)Making Toast: A Family Story by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco, $21.99, 9780061825934)Angelology: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni (Viking, $27.95, 9780670021475)House Rules: A Novel by Jodi Picoult […]
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Summer Smith has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity manager. She was previously a senior publicist at Putnam and Riverhead. Whitney Peeling is leaving Public Affairs and Jaime Leifer is returning to the company as publicity director from her stint in the pr department at The New Yorker. Lisa Degroff has been promoted to senior marketing manager, hardcover at Penguin Children’s. Esi Sogah has been promoted to associate editor at the Morrow/Avon imprint. In the Morrow-Avon-Eos-Morrow Cookbooks publicity department, Brianne Halverson has been promoted to associate director; Danielle Bartlett has been promoted to senior publicity manager; and Adam Rochkind has […]