The special committee appointed by the Books-A-Million board to examine the Anderson family’s offer to buy out other shareholders and take the company private has hired Houlihan Lokey as its financial adviser. Coffee House Press is partnering with Brooklyn-based feminist publishing project Emily Books, on an imprint for “books that speak to the aesthetic excellence, experimental boldness, and social concerns of both organizations.” Coffee House will publish two Emily Books titles a year, starting with the spring 2016 publication of Jade Sharma’s debut novel, Problems. Businessman Fred Tarter, in publishing since 1962 and the creator of enterprises from Hootenanny Magazine to the Burger King Kids’ […]
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Paula Deen Books to Return This Fall, Distributed By HBG
Paula Deen returns to book publishing this fall, issuing her titles through Paula Deen Ventures, the company she launched in early 2014 with backing from Najafi Media. The company announced an agreement with Hachette Book Group to sell and distribute her titles throughout the world. The first planned new title is Deen Cuts the Fat, for publication September 8, and PDV plans reissues of at least some of Deen’s previous titles, including The Lady & Sons, A Savannah Country Cookbook, and The Lady & Sons, Too! Deen tells People Magazine the book has “200 amazing light recipes.” She notes, “I cut the calories […]
Faber Ends US Partnership with FSG
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 […]
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 […]