The Washingtonian rounded up additional apologies and comments from Democratic politicians who commented on the record for Mark Halperin’s just-announced book, including this from former secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius: “I knew that Mark Halperin was a well-known author and political journalist but unfortunately was not as aware of the details of his disgraceful behavior toward women as I should have been. I regret having answered his questions, especially if they were designed to help a predator make a comeback.” The book was formally announced as a $22 trade paperback. Publisher Judith Regan’s commercial readiness to provide […]
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People, Etc.: Halperin and Regan Return, Together
Mary Francis will take over as director of Penn Press at the University of Pennsylvania on September 23. She has been editorial director of University of Michigan Press since 2015 and spent more than 16 years at University of California Press. At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition […]
Salinger eBooks Are Released; New Works Will Take Another 5 to 7 Years
Little, Brown announced that they will release ebook editions of J.D. Salinger’s four books for the first time on August 13. His son Matt Salinger notes in the release, ‘There were few things my father loved more than the full tactile experience of reading a printed book, but he may have loved his readers more—and not just the ‘ideal private reader’ he wrote about, but all his readers. As it became clear to us that increasing numbers of readers today read only ebooks, and after I was taken severely (if also humorously) to task by a reader with a disability […]
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Sarah Guan has joined Erewhon as editor. She previously worked at Ace, DAW, and Orbit. Martin Cahill joins as marketing and publicity manager. He was previously a literary agent freelancer, publicity and marketing specialist, and fiction writer. Madison Perdue left Amberjack Publishing on August 6. She was serving as acting marketing director, after joining the company in February as executive assistant. Publishing director Justin Mitson said they will hire a successor soon. In the meantime, Mitson told PL that their “publication timeline could be impacted by this change” and they did “hold our production, so we can re-set our efforts.” […]
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Sarah New will join Knopf as publicist starting August 6. She was previously associate publicist at Bloomsbury. At Workman Publishing, Amanda German has been promoted to gift sales coordinator. Ally McNamara becomes sales coordinator within the trade sales department. Katharina Gadow has joined as national accounts manager, online sales. Most recently, she was national account manager at DK Publishing. Lindsey Smith has joined Speilburg Literary Agency as agent representing pop culture, lifestyle, and prescriptive nonfiction. Previously, she co-founded a small press and created the Launch Your Dream Book course at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Nick Wright has joined Bonnier Books UK as […]
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At Little Brown UK, Clare Smith moves up to executive publisher, literary, on July 1. The publishers of the Little, Brown/Abacus, Corsair, Dialogue Books, Fleet and Virago imprints will report to her. Alexa von Hirschberg will move to Faber in September, to fill the vacant slot as head of the Faber Social music list, reporting to Alex Bowler. At Chronicle Books, Evelyn Furuta has been hired as designer, entertainment (she was a graphic designer at Insight Editions); and Caitlin Kirkpatrick has been promoted to editor, art. At Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Tom Kruse joined the company as head of store sales and operations […]