Simon & Schuster announced big opening day sales for Bob Woodward’s FEAR, saying it sold “more than 750,000” units across all formats. Pre-orders “were the largest for any title in Simon & Schuster company history.” Another reprint was ordered Tuesday, which will give them 1.15 million copies in print. S&S president and publisher Jonathan Karp said…
New Releases/Forthcoming
Briefs: A New Marquez, Salinger’s 100th, Center for Fiction Nominees, and More
Forthcoming Vintage Español will published a selection of journalism by the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, El Escándalo del Siglo (October 23, 2018). An English-language edition of The Scandal of the Century will be published by Knopf in May 2019. The book will include an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson and an editor’s note…
Woodward’s Trump Take: It’s As Bad As Everyone Says
The Washington Post was the first to “obtain” a copy of Bob Woodward’s FEAR ahead of next week’s publication and share key details. Their coverage led with former Trump attorney John Dowd putting the president through a practice interview to show him how a formal questioning by Robert Mueller would be his undoing. “Dowd peppered…
Author News
Opening Sales Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s UNHINGED sold over 33,000 hardcovers in its first week on sale through outlets tracked by Bookscan — making it the No. 2 hardcover nonfiction book for the week, well behind Rachel Hollis’s still strong GIRL,WASH YOUR FACE, published in February and ahead of Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax (which sold more…
People, Etc.
Hotchkiss and Associates is changing its name to Hotchkiss Daily & Associates, as Sean Daily is promoted. Founder Jody Hotchkiss comments: “I like to say that agenting is about ‘chopping the wood and hauling the water each day’—doing the work. Sean has certainly done the work since the day he started here, and he has…
People, Etc.
At Hachette Book Group, Todd McGarity has been promoted to the new, expanded role of vp, business development. He will now “lead HBG’s growth through acquisition efforts,” while continuing to run the client services (distribution) business. Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul, 85, died on August 11 at his home in London. Born in Trinidad to emigrants…