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 […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
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A previously unpublished novella by Kurt Vonnegut, BASIC TRAINING, is available today from RosettaBooks as a Kindle Single for $1.99.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 […]
Next Wimpy Kid Set For November 13 Release in Seven Countries
Jeff Kinney’s seventh installment of the bestselling Wimpy Kid series will go on sale on November 13 from Amulet Books, with the UK, Australia, Germany, Greece, Japan, Korea, and Norway to follow the next day. Abrams said that Kinney’s books have sold more than 75 million copies worldwide. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think that Greg Heffley’s stories would be enjoyed by kids around the world,” Kinney said in the announcement. “I’m incredibly excited to have the chance to lay down the seventh Diary of a Wimpy Kid book in seven countries at the same time. My international […]
Klimo to Leave Random House Children’s; New Leaders for Writers House; Rinaldi Joins Harper To Lead New Health and Wellness Line
Publisher of the Golden Books Young Readers Group Kate Klimo is stepping down as of March 31, Random House Children’s president and publisher Chip Gibson announced internally on Friday. Klimo has worked at Random House since 1984, and spearheaded the acquisition of Golden in 2001. She will be director of creative development at Media Assets Management Associates, where she “will continue turning our books into great TV shows.” (Klimo helped develop The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! into a PBS Kids show and “has six other shows based on our books in development.”) Gibson notes, “she […]
People, Etc.
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. […]
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 […]