Sandy Lu has founded Book Wyrm Literary Agency, focusing on commercial fiction and nonfiction, bringing over her clients from the L. Perkins Agency, where she has been for almost 12 years. Chelene Knight has joined Transatlantic Agency as associate agent. She was previously managing editor at Room magazine and festival director for the Growing Room Literary Festival in Vancouver. Tara Gavin has joined Alcove Press and Crooked Lane Books as a senior acquisitions editor, working on book club and women’s fiction as well as select mysteries. Previously she was an executive editor at Kensington. President of Oxford University Press USA Niko Pfund took over […]
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People, Etc.: Enderlin Named President at St. Martin’s
St. Martin’s Publishing Group publisher Jennifer Enderlin has been promoted to president. Macmillan president Don Weisberg writes in the announcement, “When I arrived at Macmillan six years ago I had heard of the legendary feats of Jen as editor and as publisher, and her success in launching the careers of many #1 bestselling authors. She is indeed an extraordinary editor, publisher, and student of the business whose passion for books is second to none. I have also come to admire her attributes as a friend, colleague, mentor, advisor, and most assuredly as a leader.” Enderlin has all the same direct […]
People, Etc.
MJ Franklin will move over from social editor at the NYT to join the NYT Book Review this summer as an assistant preview editor. Franklin will help cover literary fiction, memoir and essays, and he will lead their young adult coverage. Aubrey Poole, former editor at the Jimmy Patterson imprint, has joined subscription box service Literati as Acquisitions Editor and Curator for children’s books ages 0-12. Rhodes Murphy has joined the publicity agency Books Forward team as a publicist, and Rachel Hutchings has been hired as a digital marketing strategist. Quarto joined the growing list of publishers making clear they […]
Another Trumpsuit, Looking to Block Mary Trump’s Forthcoming Book
Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert Trump is said by a person familiar with the matter to have filed asking the Queens County Surrogate’s Court for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of Mary Trump’s forthcoming book TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. The suit is being filed there because it charges that her publication would violate a nondisclosure agreement related to the settlement of the estate of Fred Trump Sr., the president’s father. The book is scheduled for July 28 publication. Once again, the Trumps are using attorney Charles Harder, who failed […]
Bolton Book Winds Up Posted Online for Free
After a Federal judge denied the government’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking publication of John Bolton’s THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, due to publish Tuesday, on Saturday night unauthorized free PDF versions of book wound up online. Something similar had happened with Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY, when Wikileaks posted a free version of the UK edition for a few hours. In that case, Macmillan ceo John Sargent later estimated the illegal posting had likely lost them sales of 400,000 to 500,000 units. This time the file looks to be the regular US edition. It seems to have […]
Freedom to Publish Is Alive In the Age of Trump, Though Bolton Will Likely Forfeit Earnings
On Saturday morning Judge Royce Lamberth denied the Department of Justice’s half-hearted argument to “stop” publication of John Bolton’s book THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED, since it is already out in the world. “While Bolton’s unilateral conduct raises grave national security concerns, the government has not established that an injunction is an appropriate remedy.” Or, for that matter, an effective remedy, since “in the Internet age, even a handful of copies in circulation could irrevocably destroy confidentiality.” While Judge Lamberth “is persuaded that defendant Bolton likely jeopardized national security by disclosing classified information in violation of his nondisclosure agreement obligations,” […]