Jennifer Keenan has joined HMH Children’s as art director. Previously she was art director at Macmillan Children’s. At Macmillan, Rob Guttman has been promoted to senior vice president, platform development; Beter Said to senior director, product development; Grace Van Etten to senior director, central analytics; Rinat Ussenov to principal frontend engineer; Michelle Pohl to senior business…
New Releases/Forthcoming
New Books Publishing April 13
This week new work from Cynthia Ozick, Elizabeth McCracken, and Paul Theroux is in the mix, along with Buzz Books featured author Angela Jackson-Brown, whose novel When Stars Rain Down transports readers to a small, Southern town in 1936. The small selection of highlighted nonfiction is heavy on history, with books covering the Cuban missile…
Book Excerpt: The Patience Behind Lightning In A Bottle
Print on demand is a key part of the supply chain now, with Ingram’s Lightning Source as the leading independent vendor, but that success was hardly a foregone conclusion. As we learn in the forthcoming book THE FAMILY BUSINESS: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books by Keel Hunt, Ingram’s early entrance into the business required extraordinary…
People, Etc.
Shelley Husband has joined the Association of American Publishers as senior vice president, government affairs and special projects. Most recently she was staff director and general counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary from 2013 to 2019. At Hachette Livre, Nathalie Houël has been promoted to group chief financial officer. Arnaud Robert becomes group secretary…
New Books Publishing April 6
Blake Bailey’s 912-page Philip Roth biography, along with memoirs from Hunter Biden, Jenny Lawson, and Brandi Carlile, all publish today. Fiction releases include a new thriller from Jeff VanderMeer and short stories from Haruki Murakami. Also out, Flynn Berry’s Northern Spy, Erin French’s Finding Freedom, and five other titles excerpted in our Buzz Books sampler. 24…
New Books Publishing March 30
Sharon Stone’s memoir is grabbing headlines, but this week’s nonfiction is a spectacular of extraordinary women: Eleanor Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret (in Andrew Morton’s latest); the abolitionist agitators Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright, and Frances Seward; and the record-breaking mountain climber Vanessa O’Brien. In fiction, Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Of Women…