Farrar, Straus and Faber and Faber announced jointly on Tuesday that they will terminate their 17-year partnership in the American-based Faber and Faber, Inc. effective immediately. FSG will retain the rights to all of the titles published through the partnership and will migrate them to the FSG colophon over the next 18 months. Mitzi Angel will continue to acquire and publish as executive editor for Farrar, Straus. The UK’s Faber and Faber will “be announcing its plans for the U.S. market shortly.” Faber and Faber chief executive Stephen Page explains a little further in the announcement, making clear that Faber is driving the news: “FSG and […]
New Imprints
Forthcoming: Tor.com’s List, and Not the Watchman Cover
The Tor.com publishing imprint announced last May will begin publishing 3 to 4 titles a month starting in September. A blog post introduces six of their early titles, as senior editor Lee Harris writes: “We’ve been working hard to find some great novellas to launch our line, and we’ve been delighted by the quality and breadth of the stories we received.” Meanwhile, director of publicity at Harper Collins Tina Andreadis clarifies for USA Today that the jacket design for Harper Lee’s forthcoming Go Set A Watchman posted on some bookselling sites recently was just a placeholder. But the sparse design […]
Simon & Schuster’s North Star Way Division Promises Expanded Suite of Services
Simon & Schuster has launched North Star Way, a new publishing unit focused on practical nonfiction that the company says “will offer authors an expanded suite of profile-building, ancillary services that extend beyond the boundaries of traditional publishing.” Bringing books to market starting in spring 2016, it is lead by vp, publisher Michele Martin. She reports to Scribner Publishing Group president and Touchstone publisher Susan Muldow, and North Star will get support f0r its program from existing Touchstone personnel. Martin relinquishes her role as associate publisher for the Gallery Publishing Group, with that position to be filled by someone new at a later date. […]
Gallery Announces Literary Scout Press, and More
Gallery formally acknowledged their new literary imprint Scout Press on Monday, as promotion continues to build for one of their titles, literary agent Bill Clegg’s first novel (and third book), Did You Ever Have A Family?. Set for publication September 15 (with published metadata for some time, and rights sold in multiple territories), Clegg’s book will be promoted at the upcoming ABA Winter Institute. Gallery publisher Jennifer Bergstrom introduces a new conceit of “great accessible literary fiction,” which she describes to the NYT as, “literary but very accessible, not precious, not fussy, not esoteric.” In the release, she adds, “We will […]
People
Agent Sara Megibow, who recently left the Nelson Literary Agency, is joining KT Literary. At Farrar, Straus, Brian Gittis and Steve Weil have both been promoted to assistant director of publicity. In addition, Sarah Scire has been promoted to publicist, and Lis McAvoy moves up to assistant publicist. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie Kim has been promoted to publicity manager. Rick Pascocello will leave his position as vp, executive marketing director at Penguin Random House at the end of the month after 23 years in publishing, mostly at Penguin. He can be reached at rpascocello@gmail.com. Imprint News: Carole Tonkinson‘s new inspirational lifestyle imprint at […]
Coming Soon from Regan Arts
Judith Regan’s start-up publishing line Regan Arts (backed by Phaidon Global), has not formally announced their publishing list — but with a steady trickle of pre-publication announcements-as-deals coming in, we took a closer look. After issuing one title last fall (a Virtual Reality Beginner’s Guide, with Google Cardboard inspired VR viewer), the line starts publishing in earnest shortly. Distributor Simon & Schuster’s web site lists roughly 30 forthcoming titles in all, from ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, due out soon, to James Riswold’s HITLER SAVED MY LIFE: What’s So Funny About Hitler, The Reign of Terror, Napoleon, Crucifixion, […]