Packager Downtown Bookworks has started publishing a line of children’s books and has signed with Simon & Schuster for sales, warehousing and distribution, effective immediately. Downtown Bookworks expects to issue 24 kids books annually, with their launch titles on the way this month. Colin Shepherd has been promoted to assistant editor at Twelve, which he joined in April 2008. At Westview Press, Anthony Wahl has been promoted to associate editorial director. The PEN Pinter Prize is being given to novelist and playwright Hanif Kureishi, who “courageously and irreverently speaks the truth about life in our multicultural world, beyond any platitudes […]
New Imprints
Two Off the Beaten Path Stories: Myhrvold Delays, Ali Experiments
Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s lavish self-published six-volume cookbook MODERNIST CUISINE, listing for $625, has been eagerly anticipated by some foodies. In a blog posting earlier this week, Myhrvold explained to customers and fans that publication has been delayed and they will miss this Christmas, now looking for a publication date of March 14. It turns out book publishing is more complicated than it looks. The fundamental work of “proofreading and correction 2,400 pages…has been taking longer than we expected to complete.” They have also had to work out the kinks in shipping 40 pounds worth of book without damage: […]
Remaking Crown’s Paperbacks
As the latest phase of the Crown Publishing Group’s realignments, recently-appointed publisher of Three Rivers Press and Broadway Paperbacks Tina Pohlman delineated a new imprint structure and focus that parallels the entire group’s reorganization. Broadway Paperbacks will issue reprints for the Crown and Broadway hardcover lists, along with “select fiction and nonfiction” originals. Three Rivers Press will issue reprints from the refocused Harmony and newly-created Crown Archetype lines, along with its own trade paperback originals in areas such as humor and pop culture. Paperbacks drawing from Crown Business and Crown Forum will retain the originating imprint’s moniker, as will paperbacks […]
People, Etc.: Holt Hires, Davis Promoted, Highton’s Imprint, Remembering Bookseller Thompson, and Still More
Holt is adding two new editors to their team. Aaron Schlechter will join the house on October 4 as a senior editor. He has been at Overlook Press. The same week, Sarah Bowlin will start there as editor, focused on fiction but also acquiring nonfiction. She has been at Riverhead, assisting two senior editors and acquiring literary fiction. Both will report to president and publisher Steve Rubin. Dawn Davis has been promoted to publisher of Amistad and also join’s HarperCollin’s Ecco imprint as an executive editor, reporting to Daniel Halpern. For Ecco she will acquire general interest fiction, memoir, and […]
People, Etc.
St. Martin’s has announced a new short-story writing contest, to be judged by Jeffrey Archer. The winner will be offered a publishing contract, with the story of 5,000 words or less issued as an ebook.Jeffrey Archer Presents Candlewick Press is partnering on a TOON Books imprint in October. They will takeover TOON’s eleven-title backlist and aim to publish four to five new books a year starting next spring. TOON was launched in 2008 TOON Books by New Yorker art editor and RAW publisher Françoise Mouly. Flat World Knowledge his hired David Littlehale for the new position of vp of institutional […]
Quercus Expands to US with Sterling Joint Venture
The UK’s Quercus Publishing is create a new fiction imprint for the US market called Silver Oak, in a joint venture with Sterling Publishing. Quercus will select titles from their list, and Sterling will market and distribute in North America. The initial deal is for three years and the line will launch in January 2011 with Swedish authors Roslund and Hellström’s THREE SECONDS (a bestseller in Sweden, recently named that country’s crime novel of the year.) Quercus ceo Mark Smithsays in the announcement, “This partnership with one of North America’s leading publishing companies will give us access to the world’s […]