Crown has announced rollout plans for 41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER by former president George W. Bush . CBS News will broadcast the first interviews, conducted by Bob Schieffer, on Sunday, November 9 — first on “Sunday Morning” and then on “Face the Nation.” The Today show will feature the author on November 10, and the author and his father interview by Jenna Bush Hager on November 11. Crown has additional broadcast appearances and says, “President Bush will conduct a number of public book signings in the weeks to follow, with details for those events to be announced at a later date.” […]
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Kendra Harpster is joining Berkley Books as executive editor, starting Wednesday, October 15. Most recently she was a senior editor at Random House. Iain MacGregor is moving to Simon & Schuster UK as publishing director, non-fiction, reporting to Suzanne Baboneau. He has been publisher at Aurum Press. At Open Road Integrated Media, Sarah Yurch and Emma Pulitzer have been promoted to assistant editor. Jenny Kühne is marketing the Frankfurt Book Fair’s RightsLink licensing service for online permissions, and will be responsible for the networking and further development of other FBF rights activities of the Frankfurt Book Fair. Author Harlan Ellison suffered from a […]
Briefs: Hachette Launches Author Portal, Yale Moves Up Modiano
Hachette Book Group has launched their Author and Agent Portal as a “channel” within their business-facing site hachettebookgroup.biz. Similar to portals from Simon & Schuster, Random House and others, it includes unit sales information by title, weekly Nielsen BookScan sales data, an “interactive publication timeline for the 12 months prepublication,” a feature for sending large files between author and editor, and an online-piracy-reporting tool. Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch says in the announcement, “The Portal is designed to add transparency to the publishing experience by making sales data and resources readily available and easy to use to authors and agents, our valued partners in the […]
People, Etc.: Dylan’s Limited-Edition The Lyrics (At $200), and More
Simon & Schuster will publish Bob Dylan‘s THE LYRICS: Since 1962, on October 28. They call it “the first comprehensive, rigorously annotated, and definitive collection of Bob Dylan’s lyrics to be published” and say it is the product of a collaboration “over many years between Dylan and a team of editors led by Sir Christopher Ricks, Warren Professor of the Humanities and codirector of the Editorial Institute at Boston University.” The full-color volume of 1,034 pages will be limited to a single printing of 3,000 copies, retailing for $200 each. Separately, Dylan will sell 50 boxed, numbered and signed editions […]
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Once again, the naming of the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate will align perfectly with the Frankfurt Book Fair: The Swedish Academy said the new honoree will be announced on Thursday. (The Peace Prize will follow on Friday.) In other awards, the Giller Prize will cull their longlist down to a shortlist by noon today. (Then, next week we get the Booker Prize ceremony on the evening of October 14, followed by the National Book Awards finalists on October 15.) After about 7 months at Regan Arts, Michael Szczerban will join Little, Brown on October 27 as executive editor, acquiring food […]
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Emilie Polster has joined Little, Brown Children’s as executive director of marketing. She was previously senior director of integrated marketing & operations at Harper Children’s. At Picador, Andrea Rogoff has been promoted to senior publicist, while Elizabeth Bruce has been promoted to associate editor. In addition, Shannon Donnelly has joined as marketing manager. Previously she was a marketing manager at Dey Street Books. Min Lee rejoins the Penguin Random House Legal Department as vp, associate general counsel, executive director of privacy. Former University of California Press editorial director and University Press Books cofounder Sheila Levine, 65, died September 21 from ovarian […]