Kate Napolitano has joined Dey Street as executive editor. She was previously senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Educator and author Alina Mitchell has joined MacGregor & Luedeke as literary agent. Sera Rivers is joining Martin Literary & Media Management as senior literary manager starting April 26, and representing middle grade, young adult and graphic novels. Kathy Andrews, 84, co-founder of Universal Press Syndicate and former vice chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal, ceo of Andrews McMeel Publishing, and founding director of The Andrews Family Foundation, died on April 16. Chairman emeritus John McMeel writes, “Kathy was just outstanding – with […]
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At Penguin Random House, Sashia Sadikot is promoted to director, national accounts, Target adult sales, and Jessica Ko also moves up to director, national accounts, including overseeing the Walmart adult sales team. Both report to Tom Cox. As part of a realignment of PRH’s international sales team, which includes naming three new vice presidents, regional sales director for Asia Akiko Iwamoto and senior director, international marketing and imprint sales Tony Lutkus will leave the company later this month. Laurel Christensen Day will take over as president of Deseret Book Co., replacing Jeff Simpson, who leaves in June to serve a three-year […]
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Doubleday is adding titles on wellness and self-help, with a new initiative led by Todd Doughty, senior vice president and deputy publisher, and Kristine Puopolo, vice president, editorial director, nonfiction. Publisher and editor-in-chief Bill Thomas writes in the announcement, “By building bestselling authors and launching landmark publications over the years, we have developed a powerhouse nonfiction platform and are now ready to expand into the wellness and self-help sphere.” Thomas notes that all Doubleday editors are invited to contribute titles, and they expect to start publishing in 2021. “For all readers looking for guidance on change from a prominent expert, […]
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Jennifer Keenan has joined HMH Children’s as art director. Previously she was art director at Macmillan Children’s. At Macmillan, Rob Guttman has been promoted to senior vice president, platform development; Beter Said to senior director, product development; Grace Van Etten to senior director, central analytics; Rinat Ussenov to principal frontend engineer; Michelle Pohl to senior business analyst; Matt Kangas to senior director, data engineering; Dmitriy Firer to senior developer, ETL; Tova Rohatiner to associate manager, communications; and Meg Collins to author events associate. Forthcoming The late John Lewis‘s CARRY ON: Reflections for a New Generation will be published by Grand Central on […]
New Books Publishing April 13
This week new work from Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth McCracken, and Paul Theroux is in the mix, along with Buzz Books featured author Angela Jackson-Brown, whose novel When Stars Rain Down transports readers to a small, Southern town in 1936. The small selection of highlighted nonfiction is heavy on history, with books covering the Cuban missile crisis, three generations of the Sackler family, and a Gold Rush disaster, among others. 21 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-april-13 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_April_/219277 6 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-april-13 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_April_/219278 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for […]
Book Excerpt: The Patience Behind Lightning In A Bottle
Print on demand is a key part of the supply chain now, with Ingram’s Lightning Source as the leading independent vendor, but that success was hardly a foregone conclusion. As we learn in the forthcoming book THE FAMILY BUSINESS: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books by Keel Hunt, Ingram’s early entrance into the business required extraordinary patience and long-term investment in order to become a success. The book publishes next Tuesday, April 20. Following on our excerpt from last month, we now present an edited version of the chapter, Lightning in a Bottle: What would become one of the most […]