At Post Hill Press, Heather King has joined as managing editor and Amy White as accounting and contracts administrator. Holly Pisarchuk has been promoted to director of finance. April Osborn has joined Mira as editor, acquiring crime/suspense and book club fiction. Previously, she was a senior associate editor at St. Martin’s. Suzie Sisoler has been expanded her role at Penguin Random House, with the new title of vice president, director, consumer engagement, . Publisher and ceo and publisher of Manual Moderno in Mexico Hugo Setzer was named the new president of the International Publishers Association, and svp at Elsevier Michiel Kolman, PhD was named […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
People, Etc.
Liza Cassity has been promoted to associate director of publishing for Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley. With a new managing director to be named as Rebecca Smart leaves for DK, Ebury deputy managing director and publisher Jake Lingwood has decided to leave as well after more than 20 years there, saying it is “the perfect time to leave and try something new.” William Brandt joins Arcadia Publishing today as director of IT, managing a transition to improved and upgraded systems and applications. He was with C&S Wholesale (previously Piggly Wiggly). Forthcoming McClelland & Stewart will publish an anonymous political thriller, THE KINGFISHER […]
S&S Reports FEAR Sold Over 750,000 Units On Opening Day
Simon & Schuster announced big opening day sales for Bob Woodward’s FEAR, saying it sold “more than 750,000” units across all formats. Pre-orders “were the largest for any title in Simon & Schuster company history.” Another reprint was ordered Tuesday, which will give them 1.15 million copies in print. S&S president and publisher Jonathan Karp said in the announcement, “Bob Woodward’s FEAR is selling with the force of a cultural phenomenon, in extraordinary numbers across the board, in hardcover, ebook, and audio editions. Based on immense pre-publication and ongoing interest, the reading public clearly has an enormous appetite for what we […]
Briefs: A New Marquez, Salinger’s 100th, Center for Fiction Nominees, and More
Forthcoming Vintage Español will published a selection of journalism by the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, El Escándalo del Siglo (October 23, 2018). An English-language edition of The Scandal of the Century will be published by Knopf in May 2019. The book will include an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson and an editor’s note by Cristóbal Pera, Márquez’s longtime editor and friend, who also selected the articles that appear in the book. Awards The Center for Fiction has announced the seven title shortlist for its $10,000 First Novel Prize, with the winner to be named on December 11: Asymmetry, […]
Woodward’s Trump Take: It’s As Bad As Everyone Says
The Washington Post was the first to “obtain” a copy of Bob Woodward’s FEAR ahead of next week’s publication and share key details. Their coverage led with former Trump attorney John Dowd putting the president through a practice interview to show him how a formal questioning by Robert Mueller would be his undoing. “Dowd peppered Trump with questions about the Russia investigation, provoking stumbles, contradictions and lies until the president eventually lost his cool.” Shortly thereafter, Woodward quotes Dowd as telling Trump: “Don’t testify. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit.” Trump said, “I’ll be a real good witness.” Dowd […]
Author News
Opening Sales Omarosa Manigault Newman‘s UNHINGED sold over 33,000 hardcovers in its first week on sale through outlets tracked by Bookscan — making it the No. 2 hardcover nonfiction book for the week, well behind Rachel Hollis’s still strong GIRL,WASH YOUR FACE, published in February and ahead of Gregg Jarrett’s The Russia Hoax (which sold more than twice as many hardcovers in its opening week at the end of July). Gallery Books comments, “We’re delighted that readers have responded enthusiastically to UNHINGED. It is selling well in all formats — print, ebook and audio. Omarosa continues to promote the book and […]