Noah Eaker will join Flatiron Books as editorial director, reporting to Amy Einhorn, starting November 13. He has been executive editor at Random House. Jessica Williams has been promoted to senior editor at William Morrow. Sarah Armstrong has been promoted to client relations manager at Ingram Publisher Services. Vogue talks to Ghost, the “real-life New York book editor” who helps the writing staff of TV show Younger “understand the arcane workings of book publishing. “Ghost has worked in the industry since the ’90s and has published books that you definitely know by title. His list includes a blue-chip White House memoir, another […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
Briefs: Shepard’s Last Book, and More
Forthcoming Sam Shepard‘s final book, Spy of the First Person, will be published by Knopf on December 5. Completed shortly before his death from ALS in July, the book is a work of fiction about a man revisiting memories as he undergoes treatment for a medical condition. Shepard wrote the first drafts by hand, and then relied on a tape recorder and dictation. Knopf says that “his friend Patti Smith worked with him during the final months of his life, to edit and arrange the pieces into a final manuscript.” Bookselling The California legislature has passed new legislation that exempts bookstores from the recent […]
Chris Jackson: “‘Diversity In Publishing’ Doesn’t Exist–But Here’s How It Can”
Publisher of One World Chris Jackson gave a speech to the Association of American University Presses in 2016 that was adapted into an essay which is included in former Bloomsbury Press publisher Peter Ginna’s just-released anthology, What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. LitHub posted the thoughtful essay, via the University of Chicago Press: “Rather than just cranking up the engine on a typical publishing imprint, my dream is to treat it in a prefigurative way—to create, in a small corner of the Random House building, the model for what I think all of publishing should look […]
Dangerous Books Announces A Second Title
Milo Yiannopoulos continues to undercut some of the arguments made in his lawsuit against Simon & Schuster with his own business activities. The company he created to publish his own book after it was rejected by S&S has announced a second title, Fatwa: Hunted in America, by Pamela Geller. In doing so, he reaffirms his lack of competence as a publisher, since the title is due November 1 — so much for sell in to stores — and, like the first announcement of Milo’s own book, it’s currently available for pre-order from Amazon alone, and even there can only be pre-ordered in […]
Clinton V. Trolls: Movement on Both Sides
Following Tuesday’s release of Hillary Clinton’s What Happened, publisher Simon & Schuster lamented to the AP that the Amazon product page was filled with customer “reviews” that were commentary on Mrs. Clinton rather than appraisals of her books. Publisher Jonathan Karp said, “It seems highly unlikely that approximately 1,500 people read Hillary Clinton’s book overnight and came to the stark conclusion that it is either brilliant or awful.” Meanwhile, on their own Amazon purged approximately 900 “reviews” of the book, saying they ‘violate our community guidelines,” as of early this morning displaying just under 600 reviews in all. But that book page […]
People, Etc.
Wendi Gu has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an associate agent, working with Brooks Sherman in the children’s books division. She was most recently an agent at Greenburger Associates and will continue to represent fiction for young adult and middle-grade readers, picture books, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Julie Tibbott, who was previously a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, has joined Jill Corcoran Literary Agency as an agent. Jim Dassise, West Coast college field sales manager for Penguin Random House, will leave the company after 17 years on September 15. He can be reached at jdassise19@gmail.com and is based […]