Dutton’s announcement Wednesday that they will publish NO EASY DAY, a “firsthand account” of the May 2011 mission that killed Osama Bin Laden by a pseudonymous member of SEAL Team Six, on September 11 provoked plenty of media coverage but also raised questions about whether the story was vetted by any branch of the US Government. US Military officials told the AP they didn’t believe NO EASY DAY, written by “Mark Owen” with Kevin Maurer, was read or cleared by the Defense Department: “I haven’t read the book and am unaware that anyone in the Department has reviewed it,” said […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
THE CASUAL VACANCY Publicity Efforts: Rowling At Lincoln Center on October 16, And More
A lengthy feature in USA Today looks at Little, Brown’s publicity and promotion plans for JK Rowling’s upcoming novel for adults THE CASUAL VACANCY. Rowling will appear in public in the US just once, on October 16, when she will be in conversation with Ann Patchett at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall, with ticket prices ranging between $37 and $44 (including a hardcover copy of the book) though booksellers will be able to live-stream the event as well. Rowling, however, will be making a number of television appearances to promote the book, which is published on September […]
Sampling Amazon’s First Fall Harvest
This fall, Amazon’s New York-based imprint, New Harvest, will formally launch its first full season, after debuting in quiet fashion last March with JEFF, ONE LONELY GUY, by Jeff Ragsdale (with David Shields and Michael Logan.) The imprint’s inaugural list, already slated to be small, is down two books: Billy Ray Cyrus’s memoir HILLBILLY HEART, was pushed back to April 2013 to coincide with his next tour, while dissident Chinese poet Liao Yiwu’s memoir FOR A SONG AND A HUNDRED SONGS won’t be published until June 2013, the 24th anniversary of the Tianenmen Square Protests. With New Harvest bidding to […]
People, Etc.
At Crown, Julian Pavia moves from the Archetype imprint to the trade paperback editorial team as editor, reporting to Sheila O’Shea. Pavia will acquire trade paperback originals for the Broadway Books list, with an emphasis on those types of genre fiction that lend themselves to innovative publishing approaches. He will also work on conversions and occasionally acquire titles for the Crown hardcover list. Founding editor of Cosmopolitan magazine and author of SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL Helen Gurley Brown, 90, died Monday afternoon at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. Simon & Schuster announced the title and subject of Bob Woodward‘s […]
Mette Jakobsen’s The Vanishing Act Tops September 2012 Indie Next List
The ABA has announced its September Indie Next List, which includes five titles — THE YELLOW BIRDS by Kevin Powers, MEMOIRS OF AN IMAGINARY FRIEND by Matthew Dicks, JOHN SATURNALL’S FEAST by Lawrence Norfolk, THE ORCHARDIST by Amanda Coplin, and BEA Buzz Book pick THE PEOPLE OF FOREVER ARE NOT AFRAID by Shani Boianjiu — among the featured excerpts in our popular free ebook anthology of selections from over 30 big forthcoming books, BEA BUZZ BOOKS. Most of the excerpted titles release later in the year (and into next January), so if you haven’t checked it out yet, it’s as […]
People
Dan Mallory will join William Morrow as vp, executive editor on October 8. He is currently publisher at Little Brown UK’s commercial imprint Sphere. The company uses the personnel memo to announce that they will add a digital-first publishing line focused on crime and thrillers which Mallory will spearhead, in addition to acquiring and editing books for Morrow. (He launched a similar digital-first line, The Crime Vault, in the UK.) At The Experiment, Jack Palmer has been promoted to publicity, marketing, and sales manager and Molly Cavanaugh moves up to assistant managing editor, while current managing editor Karen Giangreco will […]