Continuing last year’s developments that saw changes in leadership at Bonnier Books’ English-language divisions and a slimming of their lines (including the sale of Weldon Owen to Insight Editions), the company has sold the children’s publishing lines that comprised Bonnier Books USA. CEO Shimul Tolia and cfo Thomas Morgan have bought the division from Bonnier Books. Tolia and Morgan founded Little Bee in 2014, as the first part of Bonnier Books US. The company will continue to publish under the established three imprints: Little Bee Books, BuzzPop, and Yellow Jacket. They will remain in their current offices, and continued to be distributed by […]
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Trish Daly will join Portfolio as senior editor, acquiring narrative nonfiction and big idea books in the business and economics space, starting January 14. Most recently, she was editor at Little, Brown. Claire Potter will join Basic Books on January 14 as editor. Most recently, she was associate editor at Crown. Andy Ward has been promoted to senior vice president of the Random House imprint, and Molly Turpin moves up to editor. At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Sara Weiss has been promoted to executive editor; Emily Hartley and Elana Seplow-Jolley to editor; Bridget Kearney to publishing coordinator, business insights; and Thomas Yuhas to […]
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Claire Eddy has been promoted to executive editor at Tor/Forge Books. Carina Guiterman joined Simon & Schuster editor as editor. She was previously at Little, Brown. Jackson Howard was promoted to assistant editor at Farrar, Straus. Alexis Gilbert has joined Grand Central Publishing’s marketing team as assistant director of advertising. Caroline Eisenmann has been promoted to agent at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. At Hachette Book Group, Dylan Hoke has been promoted to the newly created role of senior vice president, publishing operations and strategy. Ruiko Tokunaga becomes executive director, print production. In the UK, former Ebury executive Jake Lingwood will join Octopus […]
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Lindsey Rose will join Dutton as executive editor, acquiring commercial fiction including thrillers and suspense, starting January 22. Most recently she was senior editor at Grand Central. At Crown, Meghan Houser has been promoted to editor; Rose Fox to associate editor; and Jon Darga and Jillian Buckley to assistant editor. Donna Loffredo has been promoted to senior editor for Harmony Books and Rodale Books, and Michele Eniclerico moves up to associate editor for the two lines. In the Crown rights department, Rachel Berkowitz becomes deputy director of foreign rights and Claire Posner moves up to associate manager, subsidiary rights. Lisa Yoskowitz has been promoted to editorial director, nonfiction at Little, Brown Children’s. […]
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Naomi Gibbs has been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Richard Rhorer has been promoted to vp and deputy publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group. At Westwood Creative Artists, Meg Wheeler has been promoted to associate agent, representing writers of literary and commercial fiction as well as non-fiction. She will continue to assist Bruce Westwood and act as rights associate under WCA’s international rights director Carolyn Forde. Forthcoming An early galley for Leslie Jamison‘s collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn — named for this 2013 essay in the Oxford American, and publishing in October 2019 […]
Dark Horse Sells Stake to Chinese Investor; Former Bonnier Execs Launch New Publisher; Even Kobe Bryant Is A Publisher Now
Dark Horse Comics founder and ceo Mike Richardson sold a substantial stake in the company — for what one report suggests was about $20 million — to Hong-Kong based Vanguard Visionary Assets, associated with former Walt Disney Company in Greater China chairman Stanley Cheung. Cheung joins the five-person Dark Horse Entertainment board. Richardson declined to say he retained a majority share, saying he retained a “large chunk” of the company. He said Vanguard had invested “into a number of areas, including a stock purchase… a development fund and a film fund,” with “investment in the publishing and product divisions, and expansion […]