Kimberly Snead his been hired for the new position of director, brand strategy at the Crown Publishing Group, reporting to vp, business development Ranjana Wingender. Snead was director, consumer marketing at Nickelodeon/MTV Networks. She will be “responsible for conceiving, creating, and executing brand development plans for a variety of authors” across the group. Daniel Nayeri has been named to the new position of digital editorial director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, overseeing the e-book publishing program for all frontlist and backlist HMH children’s books, as well as acquiring e-original content and developing multimedia projects. He was editor at HMH’s Clarion. […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Amazon Publishing Gets North American Rights to James Bond Backlist
When Curtis Brown UK managing director Jonny Geller announced that Jonathan Cape had acquired a ten-year license to republish Ian Fleming’s James Bond backlist in the UK, he intimated there would be a new North American publisher in the works as well. As was announced Tuesday afternoon, that publisher is Amazon, through its Thomas & Mercer imprint, which will reissue the 14 Bond novels, as well as two non-fiction titles by Fleming, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and Thrilling Cities (1963), in ebook and print formats starting this summer. (Penguin previously held world English rights to the Bond novels, but their […]
Happier News: JK Rowling’s Novel, THE CASUAL VACANCY, Lands September 27
Ahead of the London Book Fair, Little, Brown UK announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling‘s novel for adults. Described as a “blackly comic” novel centered around a small town in which everyone is at war with each other that’s exacerbated by the unexpected death of a parish council member, THE CASUAL VACANCY will be released worldwide on September 27. Running approximately 480 pages, the hardcover is priced at $35 and the ebook at $19.99. The full description provided reads: “When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. […]
Forthcoming: The Last of the Last Lion Books
Eight years after William Manchester died at age 82, the third volume in his landmark “Last Lion” series on Winston Churchill will be published. Written by Paul Reid, working from Manchester’s beginnings, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 will be published November 1 by Little, Brown. Amazon is taking pre-orders for the ebook only at the moment, with an agency price of $19.99. The book is listed as running 1,729 pages. No print price is listed yet.
Briefs: Tattered Cover Plans Denver Airport Expansion; Ex-Goldman Sachs Op-Ed Writer Shops Book Deal; And More
Tattered Cover Bookstore is in negotiations to open several additional outlets in Denver International Airport. “Yes, we’re hoping to,” owner and founder Joyce Meskis told CBS4. “It’s in the hands of the city at this point.” She added that Tattered Cover would work with Hudson News and take over various airport store locations, which would then be re-branded under Tattered Cover’s name. Greg Smith, the onetime Goldman Sachs executive who resigned in spectacular fashion with a New York Times op-ed last week, is reported by the paper to be shopping for a book deal. Smith, who is being represented by […]
Briefs: Early Vonnegut Novella Published as Kindle Single; Patient Says Doctor Violated Her Privacy in 2009 Book
A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut, BASIC TRAINING, is available today from RosettaBooks as a Kindle Single for $1.99. The 22,000-word autobiographical novella, “satirizing the military, authoritarianism, and most of the assumed mid-century myths of the family” was originally written in the late 1940s and meant to be published under the pseudonym “Mark Harvey.” In a complaint filed in Rhode Island federal court on March 16 and obtained by Courthouse News, Gabrielle Lisnoff claimed that Dr. Michael Stein, who treated her for drug addiction between 2005 and 2010, violated her privacy by using “her most private, embarrassing, and traumatizing […]