Stephanie Cabot has joined Susanna Lea Associates, working primarily from the New York office. She has been at The Gernert Company since 2005, and is a French-American dual national. Jenny Chen has been promoted to editor at Crooked Lane Books and Alcove Press, where she will acquire crime and book club fiction. Publisher for art…
New Releases/Forthcoming
People, Etc.: Nan Talese to Retire
Nan A. Talese, president, publisher & editorial director of her own imprint at Doubleday, announced she will retire at the end of the year after six decades in publishing. She joined Random House in 1959 as a copyeditor and went on to work at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin, founding the Nan A. Talese…
New Books Publishing July 7
It’s a big week for new books coming to market. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 31 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-titles-publishing-july-7 14 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-7 27 new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-july We consult a number of…
S&S Moves Up Pub Date for Mary Trump Book
In advance of a July 10 court hearing on the request for a temporary restraining order to delay publication of Mary Trump’s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH, Simon & Schuster has moved that publication date up to July 14. The change was “due to high demand and extraordinary interest in this book,” the publisher said….
Judge Blocks Mary Trump’s Book Until July 10 Hearing, But It Has Printed and Shipped
New York State Judge Hal B. Greenwald of Dutchess County ordered Mary Trump and her publisher Simon & Schuster to temporarily refrain from “publishing, printing or distributing” her book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man or “any portions thereof.” The order lasts until a full hearing on…
People, Etc.
After the recent restructure of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Simon Pulse senior editors Jen Ung and Nicole Ellul will join Simon & Schuster Children’s, reporting to Kendra Levin; and editor Sarah McCabe will join Margaret K. McElderry Books, reporting to Karen Wojtyla. At Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Shannon Spisak has been promoted to senior director…