Crown is designating specialized vertical marketing teams for the imprints that comprise Crown Archetype, to create “even more focused, specialized teams with expertise within our respective core categories.” Meredith McGinnis has been promoted to director of marketing for Harmony Books, focused on health, wellness, spirituality, and self-improvement, with marketing manager Christina Foxley working only on Harmony titles. Julie Cepler moves over to serve as director of marketing for Archetype, Crown Forum, and Three Rivers Press, while Tommy Cabrera is promoted to marketing associate for those imprints. VP, director of marketing and publicity for Crown Business Tara Gilbride will continue in […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Forthcoming: Rubio, More Hogarth Shakespeare, and Maybe Ray Kelly
Florida Senator Marco Rubio has a second book on the way from Sentinel, “about the future of the country and the future of the Republican Party,” due after the 2014 mid-term elections. Cindy Adams says that NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly has “met” with Bob Barnett and has decided Barnett is representing Kelly for a book deal, though the NY Post headlines the story as a rumor. Two more authors were announced for The Hogarth Shakespeare line, which launches in 2016. Margaret Atwood will write a prose retelling of The Tempest, and Howard Jacobson will retell The Merchant of Venice. “For […]
Simsion Tops October Indie Next List
Graeme Simsion’s THE ROSIE PROJECT is the No. 1 pick on the ABA’s October Indie Next List. You can start reading it right now in our free ebook Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter — and that makes 5 out of the last 7 months that one of our Buzz Books selections has topped the Indie Next list. (You’ll find substantial excerpts of 40 big forthcoming fall releases to enjoy there.) The full Indie Next List: The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion The Tilted World, by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri Quiet Dell, by […]
Books In the News
The NYT Magazine has a big profile of Norman Rush, running in advance of the September 10 release of SUBTLE BODIES. The AP provides an advance look at the work of their own reporters Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman included in the forthcoming September 3 release ENEMIES WITHIN: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America.” They lead: “The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Designating an […]
People, Etc.
Having overseen McGraw-Hill Education during its spinoff from McGraw-Hill to its standalone status as a private company owned by Apollo Global Management, ceo Lloyd G. “Buzz” Waterhouse, 61, will retire by the end of the year. He’s been in the post only since June 2012. Spokesman Daniel Sieger told the WSJ Waterhouse is stepping down for “a combination of personal and professional reasons,” but will remain on the board. A search is underway for a replacement. On Monday Crown “inadvertently” fed out catalog data indicating a May 6, 2014 pub date for former Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner‘s memoir and a working title […]
Fall Books Lists
Among the new lists of fall books to watch for are New York magazine’s The Season In Books and the Seattle Times‘ list of 43 titles to watch for — plus the Canadian Press surveys “homegrown highlights” among forthcoming books. Among the cited titles, you can start reading 8 of them right now in our big free ebook sharing substantive excerpts from 40 big forthcoming titles, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2013: Fall/Winter.