At St. Martin’s, Joe Goldschein has been promoted to senior director, marketing & sales operations; Kim Ludlam to director, creative services; Martin Quinn to associate director, marketing; Marissa Sangiacomo to senior marketing manager; Erik Platt to senior manager, digital advertising operations; Danielle Prielipp to senior marketing manager; Joe Brosnan to senior marketing manager; DJ DeSmyter…
New Releases/Forthcoming
Announcements: Howard Stern Book Official, As Are New Imprints and Elton John Event
Simon & Schuster is finally acknowledging their delayed Howard Stern book — first announced accidentally through metadata last July, and originally expected for publication in September (then bumped to November, then to March 2019, and finally to May 14). The book is called HOWARD STERN COMES AGAIN, and Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp confirms…
Washington Post Hopes to Issue Mueller Report Book
The Washington Post has sold a book on THE MUELLER REPORT to Colin Harrison at Scribner, intending to publish “instantly” as an ebook and paperback — but only if the results of the investigation are made public. Todd Shuster and Bridget Matzie at Aevitas represented the newspaper. (The publisher has audio and will publish in…
Author Cliff Sims Sues Trump For Trying to Block His Book, Aims to Protect Federal Employees’ Free Speech
Cliff Sims, former White House aide and author of the recently-published book Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, filed suit against President Trump and the United States government on Monday in a District of Columbia Federal court. The action alleges that President Trump “seek[s] to unlawfully penalize and impose…
People, Etc.
The ABA’s board has recommend Jenny Cohen of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR to join the board of directors for the first time, and Kris Kleindienst, Chris Morrow, and Bradley Graham were all nominated for additional, three-year terms. Per their usual protocol, ABA vice president Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC is…
Yes, More Salinger Is Coming, and No, Not Soon
The late J.D. Salinger’s son Matt Salinger confirmed to the Guardian that the author left behind a significant body of unpublished work after his death in 2010 which the estate has been working to prepare for publication. “It’s not ready,” Matt Salinger says. “He wanted me to pull it together, and because of the scope…