Trish Daly will join Portfolio as senior editor, acquiring narrative nonfiction and big idea books in the business and economics space, starting January 14. Most recently, she was editor at Little, Brown. Claire Potter will join Basic Books on January 14 as editor. Most recently, she was associate editor at Crown. Andy Ward has been promoted to senior vice president of the Random House imprint, and Molly Turpin moves up to editor. At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Sara Weiss has been promoted to executive editor; Emily Hartley and Elana Seplow-Jolley to editor; Bridget Kearney to publishing coordinator, business insights; and Thomas Yuhas to […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
People, Etc.
Alexa Pastor has been promoted to editor for Atheneum. Ashley Vanicek has been promoted to PR specialist at Amazon Publishing, supporting Lake Union Publishing and Thomas & Mercer. Mark Weinstein has joined Diversion Books as senior editor. He was previously an executive editor at Rodale Books, Staci Burt has joined Grand Central as publicity manager. She was previously at St. Martin’s. Hannah Zirkler joined the Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency in the Netherlands as literary agent/executive assistant. Forthcoming Kate Atkinson will publish BIG SKY, her first Jackson Brodie novel since 2010 next year in June with Doubleday UK and Transworld.
Briefs: Wiley Audiobooks, Gucci Books, Another BN Legal Conference, and More
Audio RBmedia has an agreement with Wiley to publish audiobook versions of more than 650 of the book publisher’s titles over the next three years, starting in January. The deal “allows for publication of all frontlist titles, with a primary focus on business, finance and the well-known Dummies brand, as well as select titles from tech and other key subject areas,” and it includes “select backlist titles” as well. They note that “a significant percentage of audiobooks [will] be narrated by Wiley authors, including global thought leaders, educators, and practitioners.” Bookselling Soho’s latest bookselling space is “gucci.” As in the […]
Obama Week, and More
In a press release Barnes & Noble hailed Michelle Obama’s BECOMING as the adult book with the most pre-orders at the chain since Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman in 2015. BN senior director of merchandising, trade books Liz Harwell says, “Our stores across the country are ready for huge demand … for what will likely be the biggest book of the season during what has been a blockbuster publishing calendar.” So far Joanna Gaines’ Magnolia Table and Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury top the year’s print bestsellers, the only two titles with print sales of more than 1 million copies […]
Oprah Picks “Becoming,” And One Store Books An Appearance
Oprah Winfrey is giving Michelle Obama’s BECOMING an extra boost, picking it for her occasional book club. “This book is everything you wanted to know and so much you didn’t even know you wanted to know,” Winfrey said. “I believe it’s going to spark within you the desire to think about your own becoming.” She added, “It’s so well-written I can hear her voice; I can hear her expressions; I can feel her emotion. What she allows us to see is how she was able to discover, define and then refine her voice.” Winfrey has taped an interview with Obama, […]
McCabe’s Book Is Postponed, As FBI Is Accused of Slow-Walking Review
Publication of the forthcoming book from fired deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe THE THREAT: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump has been postponed. St. Martin’s had intended to publish December 4, but has rescheduled the book for February 2019, pending an ongoing pre-publication review of the manuscript by the FBI. McCabe “is accusing his former agency of potentially targeting him unfairly by stalling publication,” ABC reports. “I am disappointed that we have had to substantially delay the publication date for my book because the FBI’s review has taken far longer than they led […]