HarperCollins, which hired Karen Rinaldi in March to start a new health and wellness line, has now named that imprint Harper Wave. Called a general health, wellness and lifestyle line, the company says they have been targeting “the best thinking from top personalities, experts, doctors and journalists.” Executive editor Julie Will is also working on the list. The imprint will launch in the marketplace in April 2013 with television personality and dating expert Matthew Hussey’s GET THE GUY, and the fall list will include their Cameron Diaz book. Harper adds that “Rinaldi and team are working closely with authors to develop their […]
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Quercus to Try Again With Freestanding US Line
The UK’s Quercus will try again with a US publishing operation after their first effort, a joint venture with Sterling called Silver Oak, withered at Sterling after that company lost its ceo and some of the focus of its parent company Barnes & Noble. The new freestanding Quercus US venture will be run out of a New York office of their own and sold and distributed by Random House, aiming to launch in fall 2013. They plan to launch with 40 titles from across the Quercus UK list. When announced in September 2010, the Sterling joint venture was set to […]
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Bloomsbury India will start publishing in November, drawing on titles from the company’s UK and US lists. Rajiv Beri is managing director; Diya KarHazra is trade publisher, and Amit Bhatia is academic and professional publisher. Douglas Markham, recently fired by Books-a-Million from his position as evp and chief administrative officer, alleges through attorney Mark White that “for some time, BAMM has made it known to our client that the company did not support his service to the US Navy.” Markham is a captain, and as BAMM had reported previously, was on leave for part of 2009 while on active duty […]
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Kevin Doughten will join Crown as senior editor on September 24, focusing on non-fiction. He was most recently an editor at Viking. Olga Rogozina has joined the Van Lear Agency in Moscow as both a literary agent and contracts manager. Previously she was foreign rights manager at Astrel. Founder of Chicago’s 10-store Beck’s Bookstores, Bob Beck, 91, died last week at Northwestern Hospital. “Today, a marketing major would say he had a business plan. Back then, it was called an angle. He sold books at Beck’s for less than the college bookstores charged, and he paid more when the used […]
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At Sourcebooks, Valerie Pierce has been promoted to marketing manager, retail and libraries. In addition, Jenna Skwarek has joined as assistant editor in the trade division. She was previously with McGraw-Hill Higher Education, where she was a development editor and editorial coordinator. In Holland, Jessica Nash take over as editor-in-chief of translated fiction at Atlas-Contact on October as Tom Harmsen moves over within the VBK group to become publisher of Luitingh-Sijthoff. Martijn David will be leaving Atlas-Contact on October 15 to become Secretary-General of the Dutch publishers’ association. Berkley/NAL has formally announced details of their new graphic novel imprint, InkLit, which […]
Harper Announces Paperback Mystery Line, Bourbon Street
Harper Collins will launch Bourbon Street Books to publish “all types of mysteries,” featuring paperback originals, reprints, backlist titles, and reissued classics. The line starts with fall with two paperback originals: British author Oliver Harris’s debut THE HOLLOW MAN and Lynda La Plante’s seventh book in the Anna Travis series, BLOOD LINE, both publishing on October 23. Also in October they will bring back into print Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey with Harriet Vane series and in winter they will reissue four Mary Kay Andrews novels — Happy Never After, Homemade Sin, To Live and Die in Dixie, Every […]