Hachette Book Group’s Yen Press has announced a March 16 pub date and a 350,000-copy first printing for their first installment of the graphic novel version of Stephenie Meyer’s TWILIGHT. “As is typical in graphic novel publishing, due to the length of the prose novel, the book will be divided into two volumes and the release date for the second volume is forthcoming.” Illustrations are by Korean artist Young Kim.
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Today all from the UK: At Harper UK, publishing director Lynne Drew has been promoted to publisher, fiction and will now oversee the company’s entire adult fiction program. Publishing director Julia Wisdom moves up to publisher, crime and thrillers, and deputy publishing director Sarah Ritherdon is in charge of commercial women’s fiction, with both reporting to Drew. Senior commissioning editor Emma Coode has been promoted to editorial director of science fiction imprint Voyager, reporting to publishing director Jane Johnson. Former Harper UK Children’s publishing director Gillie Russell will join Aitken Alexander as an agent, focusing on YA and children’s books. […]
Amazon Offers 70% Royalty–If You Self-Publish Inexpensively, and Comprehensively
Amazon has created a 70 percent royalty option for authors and publishers self-publishing on Kindle via their digital text platform as of June 30–as long you meet these conditions: * It should be not too cheap and not too expensive–priced between $9.99 and $2.99–and the digital list price has to be “at least 20 percent below the lowest physical list price for the print book” * It has to be available for sale in all territories in which the author or publisher has rights * It has to be available for text-to-speech, and whatever other new features Kindle adds * […]
Publishers Donate to Haiti
On Friday Random House, Inc. announced a $100,000 corporate contribution to be shared by the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund and Haitian health-care provider Partners in Health (led by Paul Farmer, the subject of Tracy Kidder’s MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS). The publisher told employees they will match their donations, dollar for dollar up to $1,000, to any tax-qualifying Haitian earthquake relief organization until June 1. Parnet company Bertelsmann has also announced a 100,000-euro donation to children’s relief organization Plan International. In a different type of relief effort, Simon & Schuster’s Pimsleur division is providing free downloads of their Haitian Creole […]
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Gabrielle Moss has been promoted to associate editor at Penguin’s Tarcher imprint. In promotions at the Random House publishing group: Jillian Quint moves up to associate editor at Ballantine and Ryan Doherty is now editor for Ballantine, Villard, and Presidio Press; Mya Spalter is assistant editor at Spiegel & Grau; and Kaitlin Heller and David Pomerico are now assistant editors at Del Rey/Spectra. Donna Duverglas has been made assistant director of sub rights, as Rhea Lyons moves up to sub rights associate. Jenn Backe has moved up to production associate and Sarah Feightner is production supervisor. In the UK, Victoria […]
Stead Takes Newbery, Pinkney Wins Caldecott
Rebecca Stead’s WHEN YOU REACH ME (Wendy Lamb Books) was awarded the ALA’s Newbery Medal this morning, as Jerry Pinkney’s THE LION & THE MOUSE (Little, Brown Children’s), a “near-wordless adaptation of Aesop’s classic fable of kindness repaid between an unlikely pair of creatures,” won the ALA’s Randolph Caldecott Medal for best picture book. The Newbery Honor books were: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip HooseThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, by Jacqueline KellyWhere the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace LinThe Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick The Caldecott Honor titles were: All the World, […]