Jennifer Corcoran will join Harper Children’s as senior director of publicity and events on October 21. Most recently she was senior director, communications at the cable network Universal Kids. Theresa Dooley has been promoted to publicity manager at Harper. Deborah Gershenowitz will join UNC Press as executive editor, starting November 1. She was previously senior editor for American and Latin American history at Cambridge University Press. Heather Gold has been promoted to associate editor for classics and ancient world at Yale University Press. Ella Griffiths has been promoted to the newly created role of editor of Faber’s classics, backlist, and […]
New Imprints
Briefs: New from Owens and Clintons, The Atwood Review Embargo, and More
Forthcoming Delia Owens‘ WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, will be published in a Spanish-language edition in the US and Canada by Vintage Español. La chica salvaje will release in trade paperback on October 29, with Penguin Random House Audio publishing the audio edition. (That’s the title used by El Ático de los Libros in Barcelona, which sold the rights to Vintage.) Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton‘s children’s book GRANDMA’S GARDENS, highlighting “the special bonds between mothers, grandmothers and the children they love,” will be published by Philomel on March 31. (The Penguin Children’s imprint has published previous books by Chelsea […]
People, Etc.
Julie Buntin has been promoted to editor-at-large at Catapult. Alexandra Primiani has joined Avid Reader Press as publicity manager. Most recently, she worked at Melville House. Aurora Bell has joined the University of South Carolina Press as acquisitions editor, regional books and other titles. She was previously associate editor at Countryman Press. Sam Morgan has joined the Lotts Agency as a literary agent. Previously at Foundry Literary + Media, he brings his roster of clients with him, and will specialize in adult fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Molly Young has joined New York magazine and Vulture as literary critic. She was previously […]
People, Etc.: Toni Morrison Dies at 88
Toni Morrison, 88, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1988 Pulitzer for fiction, died on Monday night at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Robert Gottlieb, Morrison’s longtime editor at Knopf, said in statement, “She was a great woman and a great writer, and I don’t know which I will miss more.” Sonny Mehta, chairman of Knopf, said: “Toni Morrison’s working life was spent in the service of literature: writing books, reading books, editing books, teaching books. I can think of few writers in American letters who wrote with more humanity or with more love […]
Briefs: Germany’s KNV Sold, Scribd Minis, Rebel Girls Imprint, PRH UK Pulls Book
Bankrupt German book wholesaler KNV (Koch, Neff and Volckmar) was auctioned by the trustee to Berlin-based privately owned logistics company Zeitfracht. The sale price was not disclosed, but the creditors’ committees have approved the purchase agreement. Zeitfracht says it will retain all employees — approximately 1,600 jobs — and continue to operate KNV’s three locations. Press release Subscription service Scribd is formally rolling out Snapshots (which launched in beta in February), “designed to offer key insights of a book in about 15 minutes to spark subscribers’ interest in reading the book in its entirety.” It’s “the literary equivalent of a […]
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Digital director and publisher at Bloomsbury Publishing Stephanie Duncan leaves the company this week: “I’ve loved working at Bloomsbury, it’s been challenging, fun and great to work with such brilliant colleagues, authors and books. After over twenty years here, it’s time for me to do something new, somewhere new.” She oversaw the first official Harry Potter website, Bloomsbury’s global ebook operations and the digital-first imprint Bloomsbury Reader. She can be reached at stephanie@duncan.uk.com Arcadia Publishing has hired Shane Hennigan as sales specialist; and Ashley Hill and Hayley Behal as production editors for History Press. Katelyn Jenkins returns to Arcadia as acquisitions […]