Deputy CEO of DK John Duhigg will step up to global CEO of the publisher at the beginning of April, and will join the Penguin Group Board as well. Current ceo Peter Field is preparing to retire from Penguin at the end of the year after a 35-year career at the company. Between April and the year-end, Field “will retain his current responsibilities for Penguin in Australia and New Zealand and take on a range of international projects across the company.” F+W Media will launch Prologue Books, a new imprint devoted to reissuing out-of-print hardboiled and pulp novels originally published between […]
New Imprints
Comedy Central Sets Up Imprint At Running Press
The Perseus Books Group has added to their portfolio of media relationships with the likes of Weinstein Books and The Daily Beast with a new Comedy Central Books imprint, housed with Running Press. The show South Park has published a number of books directly with Running Press in the past. The first title, set for October, is Denis Leary’s currently untitled “funny Christmas book based on a special I did for Comedy Central seven-and-a-half years ago.” (Leary has a new special airing this fall, “reminiscent of 2005’s Merry F#%$in’ Christmas.”) Leary has done two books with Viking Penguin previously. Many […]
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A Public Space editor Brigid Hughes will join Graywolf Press as contributing editor as part of a new collaborative venture between the literary magazine and the publishing house. Graywolf plans to publish two A Public Space books per year, to be chosen and edited by Hughes, with “A Public Space Book” printed on the back cover and in the interior. The inaugural book will be selected in the coming months. “The collaboration is a natural extension of our work with writers in A Public Space—it will be wonderful to stay involved in a piece that starts in our pages as […]
eNews: Dutton Relaunches Guilt-Edged Mysteries As Digital Imprint
Dutton will join the digital imprint movement later this summer by relaunching its Dutton Guilt-Edged Mysteries line, which published hardboiled and noir titles from 1947 to 1956, as an ebook-only venture. The new program, overseen by Dutton editor-in-chief Ben Sevier, will publish stories and novellas ranging between 10,000 and 50,000 words on a monthly basis and will launch with NPR news editor Krishnadev Calamur’s debut novella Murder in Mumbai. “The re-launch of Dutton Guilt-Edged Mysteries is a fitting tribute to Mickey Spillane, one of the 20th century’s bestselling and most beloved novelists,” Sevier said in a statement. The new imprint […]
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Jonathan Lyons will join Folio Literary Management as executive director of subsidiary rights, and will also serve as the agency’s legal counsel on select issues, including contract, copyright, and estate law. He has been running his own agency and law practice. Molly Jaffa has been promoted to director of international rights, and will continue to develop her client list. Jennifer Doerr has joined Yale University Press as senior publicist. She previously held director of publicity positions at Macmillan Children’s and Skyhorse Publishing. At Random House Children’s, Chelsea Eberly was promoted to associate editor. In the UK, Bloomsbury is launching a new […]
NBC News Forms Digital Publishing Unit
In an indication of the extent to which digital publishing can empower new entrants from other parts of the media world, NBC News announced today that it is forming NBC Publishing. Based in New York, the unit is run by general manager Michael Fabiano, and they have hired Brian Perrin (who was at Rodale) as director of digital development, and Peter Costanzo (who was at F+W Media) as creative director. Fabiano reports to svp of NBC News Cheryl Gould, who is the “executive in charge” of NBC Publishing. She says in the announcement “this business enables NBC to use video, […]