With the FBI “under intense scrutiny,” Flatiron Books announced that they are moving up the publication date of James Comey’s A HIGHER LOYALTY by two weeks, to April 17. The publisher said “that there was demand for the former FBI director to be heard amid an ‘urgent conversation’ about the bureau” as it is undermined by President Trump and some of his supporters. Separately, Stephen King announced the publication of a 144-page novella will October 30, ELEVATION. Scribner lists a hardcover price of $19.99
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Rachel Ekstrom Courage has moved to Folio Literary Management as an agent representing adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction and select nonfiction projects. Previously she was an agent at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. At Sterling Lord Literistic, Laurie Liss has been promoted to executive vice president and managing partner, and Nadyne Pike moves up to chief operating officer. (Doug Stewart and Celeste Fine were both made vice president, as well.) At Knopf Children’s, Marisa de Novis has been promoted to assistant editor. Macmillan Children’s announced a number of promotions: Liz Dresner has been promoted to associate art director; Rebecca […]
Briefs: Flame Tree Publishing Launches; Gates Touts New Pinker; and More
London-based Flame Tree Publishing is building on their recent work in publishing genre short stories to launch the trade fiction imprint Flame Tree Press in September with 12 titles, and aims to publish 24 to 30 horror, crime, science fiction and fantasy books a year. Run by founder Nick Wells, Don D’Auria is the executive editor based in New York, working with the UK editorial board of Laura Bulbeck, Cat Taylor, Josie Mitchell, and Gillian Whitaker. Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will manage US sales. In the UK, former executive director of S&S UK and longtime Hachette UK executive Kerr MacRae has launched […]
Ten Speed Will Replace Copies of Ottolenghi’s SWEET Due to Errors
Ten Speed Press will replace copies of British-Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s newest cookbook SWEET in April after the discovery of errors affecting 21 of 115 recipes. As first reported by the Toronto Star, “seven corrections involve ingredient amounts or typos,” with another 14 errors due to incorrect temperature conversions. In addition, a recipe for a Butternut, Honey and Almond Tin Cake was accidentally labelled nut-free. Ten Speed Press spokesperson David Hawk told the Star that “temperatures were rounded off…when the recipes were being tested for the North American audience,” leading to errors. As a result, Hawk said in a statement […]
Macmillan Has 1 Million Fire and Fury Hardcovers In Process, Sold “Hundreds of Thousands” of eBooks
Macmillan ceo John Sargent gave the WSJ some long-awaited data on sales for Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY, noting, “We have never seen a book sell at this rate here at Macmillan.” One day ahead of the original publication date of January 9, Sargent indicated “the publisher is reprinting as quickly as it can, he said, and now has more than 1 million hardcover copies in the pipeline.” (The company says it has orders for more than a million books, and is printing to meet the demand.) It will take until some time “next week” to be “caught up with […]
More Fire, More Fury: Tweets, Regrets, Piracy, Access and More
Michael Wolff’s book FIRE AND FURY continued to dominate the news cycle over the weekend, in large part because the President seemed determined to keep the story front and center. Trump’s tweeted remarks accomplished the exact opposite of what he intended: “Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” Of his path to the presidency, “I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!” More disturbing — and on point to Macmillan ceo John Sargent’s letter and the company’s legal response due later today […]