Leis Pederson has returned to Berkley as editor at large acquiring romance and mysteries. Heather Kelly has been promoted to assistant art director, Appleseed and Abrams Childrens. Gabrielle Nugent has been promoted to associate publicist at Norton. At Harper Christian, Becky Monds has been promoted to associate publisher, Laura Wheeler to acquisitions editor, and Jodi Hughes to senior editor for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan.
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Initiatives
The ABA is bringing back its #BoxedOut campaign for Amazon Prime Day 2021, which will take place on June 20 and 21. Launched on last year’s prime day to build awareness for indie bookstores during COVID-19, the event featured social media initiatives, posters, and displays pushing back against Amazon. Penguin Random House has launched All Ways Black, an initiative that “showcases and celebrates the many facets of the Black experience.” The publisher will partner with Cree Myles, who created the initiative, and “will work alongside the Penguin Random House Creative Strategy team to develop editorial content and original programming that highlight […]
Obituaries
Janet Malcolm, 86, New Yorker writer and author of The Journalist and the Murderer died Wednesday of lung cancer.
People
Danielle Dieterich and Gabriella Mongelli have each been promoted to editor at Putnam. At Random House Children’s, Sarah Hokanson has been promoted to art director, and Nicole Gastonguay has been promoted to assistant art director. Taline Boghosian has joined as designer. She was previously a designer at Starry Forest Books. Miriam Vance has been promoted to contracts & rights associate at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull Press. Latoya Smith at LCS Literary and Felice Laverne at Art + Deco have launched a new agency, ArtHouse Literary Agency, which will “acquire talent across genres in the adult and young adult markets while proudly standing […]
Forthcoming: Wolff’s Next Trump Book
Michael Wolff’s new book, LANDSLIDE: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, will be published by Holt on July 27. Though the book is embargoed, a first serial will be featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s July 5 issue. The book promises continuing “extraordinary access to White House aides and to the former President himself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights.” Little Brown UK will publish simultaneously again, this time through the Bridge Street Press imprint.
Good Changes
We are quietly at work on site changes and new initiatives all the time and it has been a particularly busy stretch recently. Sometimes those changes are subtle and occasionally they are unavoidable. Some time very soon — perhaps as soon as next week — you’re going to open your Lunch and it will look different. And better. So don’t be too surprised!