At Scribner, Shannon Welch has been promoted to executive editor. At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Danielle Burby has been promoted to agent and foreign rights manager. Paula Canal will join Indent Literary Agency as a literary agent and foreign rights director. She has spent the past 17 years as foreign rights manager at Anagrama and will continue to handle all foreign rights for the company from her post at Indent. At New World Library, Jason Gardner has been promoted to executive editor. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Cheryl Ringer has been promoted to editor, business group. At the UK’s Folio Prize, executive […]
New Imprints
People: Harlequin Launches Park Row Books Imprint, and More
Harlequin will launch a new imprint, Park Row Books, in summer 2017, with a focus on “thought-provoking and voice-driven novels” that have “mainstream appeal.” Executive editor for the imprint Erika Imranyi told the AP: “We’ve been growing that part of our business for a very long time. It’s a small piece of what we do, but a really important piece.” Park Row Books is named for the street where Harlequin’s offices were once located. Separately, the rebranded HQ imprint in the UK (combining Harlequin UK and Mira UK, as an imprint of Harper UK), has announced the acquisition of their […]
McDonald Named Publisher of New FSG Imprint, and More
Sean McDonald has been named publisher of a newly created imprint at Farrar, Straus, MCD/FSG. The imprint’s goal, according to the announcement, is to “create a space to publish work and experiment with publishing styles, forms, and genres that are at the edges of FSG’s traditions and/or are new enough to have no tradition.” McDonald will be joined at MCD/FSG by former Amazon Publishing editor-in-chief and publisher Daphne Durham, named executive editor, working from Seattle. McDonald says in the announcement, “When Jonathan [Galassi] suggested this—to create what he called a kind of lab in which we could find new ways […]
Now Michael Mann Has An Imprint, at HarperCollins; Jackson to Reboot One World; and More
After announcing a couple of book deals with himself via Deadline.com, writer/director Michael Mann is reported to have made a deal for his eponymous imprint with HarperCollins. David Highfill is said to be overseeing the books for the publisher, acquiring world rights to three Mann-co-authored books, sold by Shane Salerno at The Story Factory and attorney Harold Brown. The first title is by Mann and fellow Salerno client Don Winslow, a novel about the complex relationship between organized crime figures Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana for publication in 2017. The second will be a prequel to Mann’s Heat. Separately, Spiegel & Grau executive editor Chris Jackson […]
People, Etc.
Random House will try to beat the celebrity imprint jinx in a new partnership with Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner for a Lenny imprint. Overseen by editor-in-chief Andy Ward and launching in late 2017, the line will feature the “emerging voices…that Lena and Jenni Konner are already attracting and publishing so successfully in their newsletter and on their popular site.” Ward says in the announcement, “Working with Lena, Jenni and the editors of Lenny, we plan to publish a select number of titles each year to build a varied, compelling, and voice-driven list.” Dunham adds, “Jenni and I are both voracious […]
People, Etc.
At PGW, Abbey Phalen has been promoted to marketing and business development manager. Katie Gallagher will join Perseus as gift sales manager on March 15, working out of the company’s Berkeley offices. Previously she sold giftware and home décor products for Midwest CBK and was an account executive at Napoleon Appliance. At Chronicle Books, Mirabelle Korn has been promoted to assistant editor. Kathy Huck has recently left North Star Way to pursue other opportunities. She is also available freelance writing and editing. She may be reached at khuck@nyc.rr.com At the Los Angeles Times, arts and entertainment editor Laurie Ochoa is adding […]