Following Tuesday’s release of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, publisher Simon & Schuster lamented to the AP that the Amazon product page was filled with customer “reviews” that were commentary on Mrs. Clinton rather than appraisals of her books. Publisher Jonathan Karp said, “It seems highly unlikely that approximately 1,500 people read Hillary Clinton’s book overnight and…
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Wendi Gu has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an associate agent, working with Brooks Sherman in the children’s books division. She was most recently an agent at Greenburger Associates and will continue to represent fiction for young adult and middle-grade readers, picture books, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Julie Tibbott, who was previously a…
CNN Breaks Clinton Embargo
Thanks to a Jacksonville, FL bookstore, CNN is the first news organization to buy and read a finished copy of Hillary Clinton’s forthcoming What Happened. There is plenty of blaming everyone else, per other excerpts and pre-publication leaks: “The defeated presidential contender offers a patchwork of explanations for what, exactly, did happen last year —…
People: Dickerman Moves to FSG
Flatiron Books editorial director Colin Dickerman will move over within Macmillan to Farrar, Straus as vp and executive editor as of September 18. Dickerman had already acquired and edited some fiction for FSG, including Paul Beatty’s Booker-winning The Sellout, since when he first joined Flatiron it was a nonfiction line. Flatiron founder Bob Miller said, “I’m…
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Susan Wadsworth-Booth will join Kent State University Press as director starting September 11. Previously she was director of the Duquesne University Press in Pittsburgh. Elina Vaysbeyn has been promoted to associate director of marketing for Dutton. Concepción de León explains to readers the new Newsbook column she is writing for the NYT, providing “timely reading lists to…
Hillary, For Sale, On Tour
The first dates were announced on Monday for Hillary Clinton’s book tour, which comprises 9 book signings (six of which are in the greater New York metropolitan area) — plus a “Hillary Clinton Live” theater tour to 15 cities, where she promises to “connect with audiences with a story that’s personal, raw, detailed and surprisingly…