At Chronicle Books, Todd Presley has been promoted to executive director of human resources, McEvoy Group. Greg Mortimer joins Scribner Monday in the newly-created position of online marketing manager. He was formerly marketing manager of trade paperbacks for the Random House publishing group. Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz‘s new story collection THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, “about the heartbreak and radiance that is love,” will be published by Riverhead on September 11, 2012. Diaz will appear at BEA as one of the author breakfast speakers on Tuesday, June 5, and he will do a national book tour in the fall. […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Rowling Will Publish This Year (and Settled With Christopher Little)
Further to yesterday morning’s announcement of JK Rowling’s new novel, which did include release timing, Rowling herself told the Twitter the book will be “out later this year.” Agent Neil Blair confirms to the WSJ “that he negotiated directly with Little, Brown in the UK for world English rights rather than offering the title for auction,” which is what we inferred, but apparently has surprised some people. Little-noticed was last month’s preamble to yesterday’s announcement: The Daily Mail “was informed” by London-based reputation and crisis-management firm Project Associates that Rowling settled with former agent Christopher Little. The statement indicated that […]
JK Rowling’s First Adult Novel to Little, Brown
Little, Brown has world English rights to the first novel for adults by JK Rowling, the company announced Thursday morning. Little Brown UK publisher David Shelley will serve as Rowling’s editor and Michael Pietsch will oversee publication in the US. All other details–title, pub date “and further details about the novel will be announced later in the year.” But one important element has been settled: While the world waits for Pottermore and the Harry Potter ebooks, Little, Brown promises they will publish “both in print and ebooks.” Rowling says in the release: “Although I’ve enjoyed writing it every bit as […]
Algonquin Hopes to Have Rosset Autobiography Ready This Year
Algonquin Books released a statement expressing their sadness at the death of Barney Rosset on Tuesday. The house has Rosset’s autobiography THE SUBJECT WAS LEFT-HANDED under contract (Wednesday’s Lunch misstated it as a biography), and publisher Elisabeth Scharlatt says, “We are very sad that he won’t be here to see his book published, and hope to release it within the year.” Bradford Morrow was working with Rosset on the manuscript, which has been in the works “for quite some time” according to Scharlatt. Separately, president of Grove/Atlantic Morgan Entrekin had this to say about the former head of Grove Press: […]
Upcoming: Final Wheel of Time Book Set for January 2013; Harper Gets Knox Memoir; Lin Shopping Memoir (Or Not)
Tor will release THE MEMORY OF LIGHT, the final novel in the Wheel of Time series begun by Robert Jordan and completed by Brandon Sanderson, on January 8, 2013, calling the book “one of the most important titles Tor will ever publish.” As has been widely reported, Harper will publish Amanda Knox’s memoir in 2013, paying as much as $4 million following a multi-day auction involving as many as seven publishers. Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham told the AP Knox “would work with a collaborator” and that he was “deeply impressed” with Knox after meeting her. “The experience of actually sitting […]
People
Katherine Furman has joined Reader’s Digest as senior editor for their trade books division, focusing on informative nonfiction, humor, inspirational stories, and other titles that align with the Reader’s Digest brand. She was previously an editor at Sterling. Cara Bedick has joined The Experiment in the newly-created position of editor; she most recently was associate editor at Gotham. Ani Chamichian has also joined the company, as sales director. Little, Brown Children’s announced the publication of the first installment in Lemony Snicket‘s new ALL THE WRONG QUESTIONS series, originally expected in 2011, now set for publication on October 23, with an […]