J.K. Rowling’s second crime novel written as Robert Galbraith, THE SILKWORM, will be published on June 24 by Little, Brown in the US and the UK. The book again features private detective Cormoran Strike and assistant Robin Ellacott as they investigate the murder of a novelist who has “just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows.” Rowling will also appear at the Harrogate Crime Festival on July 18 in conversation with Val McDermid (also published by Little, Brown UK) in her only scheduled appearance to promote THE SILKWORM. Separately, Little, Brown announced that it will publish […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Dobbs, King, Palacio and Munro
Stephen King announced the publication of his novel REVIVAL in the US and the UK on November 11, 2014. In the same month, Knopf says they will issue recent Nobel Prize-winner Alice Munro’s FAMILY FURNISHINGS: Selected Stories, 1995-2014, this November (will include stories from her last 6 books). Random House Children’s in the US and UK will publish R.J. Palacio‘s 365 DAYS OF WONDER: Mr. Browne’s Book of Precepts, a companion book to her bestselling debut WONDER, on August 26, 2014 in hardcover with a first printing of 350,000 copies. (Palacio will also write an ebook original story, THE JULIAN CHAPTER, set […]
People, Etc.
Graham Bell will move up to executive director of EDItEUR as of April 1, after Mark Bide retires. Bell has been chief data architect of EDItEUR since joining the organization in 2010, after working as head of publishing systems at Harper UK. In the Crown production department, Luisa Francavilla has been promoted to associate production director; Patricia Shaw moves up to senior production editor/digital copy chief; and Shira Gluck, Virginia Rhoda, and Heather Williamson have all been promoted to production associate. At Putnam and Amy Einhorn Books, Kelly Welsh Rudolph has been promoted to assistant director of publicity. Christopher Rhodes […]
Family of Stella Gibbons Has Two Unseen Manuscripts to Submit
The family of the late novelist Stella Gibbons is ready to share two unpublished (and previously unknown to the public) manuscripts with publishers. Best known as the author of Cold Comfort Farm, Gibbons finshed the two works late in life, prior to her death in 1989. One manuscript, AN ALPHA, is about a young woman from the East who moves to Britain and becomes a successful writer. The other, THE YELLOW HOUSES, “is a bit of a ghost story,” her daughter Laura Richardson tells the Camden New Journal. Gibbons’ grandson Ben Richardson indicates to the paper that with “the renewed […]
People: Ianonne Leaves BN, and More
Barnes & Noble’s director of digital products Jamie Iannone has left the company and joined Wal-mart as president and ceo of Samsclub.com. The WSJ says he will oversee integrating the Sam’s Club website with Wal-mart’s California-based ecommerce unit as they try to grow online sales. He joined Barnes & Noble in 2009 after serving as vp, search at eBay. Iannone had received $2.87 million in salary and stock awards for the BN fiscal year ending April 2013. McGraw-Hill Education has named David Levin its new president and chief executive officer, effective April. Levin, currently ceo of UBM, succeeds Lloyd “Buzz” […]
Loudest Voice In the Room Release Moved Up to Next Tuesday
Riding a strong wave of pre-publication coverage — from an authorized excerpt to a broken embargo — Random House is moving up publication of Gabriel Sherman’s THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM to Tuesday, January 14 (originally set for release on the 21st).