Bloomsbury announced that chairman Anthony Salz will step down from his position and exit the board at the annual meeting in July, with a successor to be named later. As of March 1, managing director of IOP Publishing Steven Hall will join the company’s board and, as part of a regular rotation policy, Faber chief executive Stephen Page will leave the board after three years of service. Forthcoming Doubleday Children’s has acquired an unfinished fairy tale by Mark Twain that author Philip Stead and illustrator Erin Stead have expanded into a 152-page illustrated “storybook for all ages.” They will publish THE PURLOINING […]
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Avideh Bashirrad has been promoted to vp, deputy publisher, fiction at Random House, reporting to Susan Kamil. Kelsey Horton has joined Delacorte Press as associate editor. Previously, she was an associate editor at Katherine Tegen Books. At Doubleday, Michael Goldsmith has been promoted to assistant director of publicity and Mark Lee moves up to associate publicist. Matthew Martin has been promoted to the new position of svp, deputy general counsel at Penguin Random House. Target‘s February Club Pick is All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda. Mystery Writers of America announced the slate of Edgar Award nominees, with the winners to be […]
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At St. Martin’s Press, Laura Clark has been promoted to associate publisher, nonfiction, reporting to Jennifer Enderlin. “What impresses me most about Laura is her passion, her can-do attitude, her breadth of knowledge in so many varied areas of non-fiction,” Enderlin said in the announcement. “She is the natural choice for this position, as we gear up for some of the most important non-fiction this house has ever published. At BookPage, Cat Acree has been promoted to deputy editor. Forthcoming Bookseller metadata has long indicated that Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes‘ forthcoming book on Hillary Clinton was headed for publication at […]
Did Anyone Else Actually Bid for Milo?
Slate talks to many of the conservative books editors about Milo Yiannopoulos’s book proposal, and the NYT covers a couple as well. “It appears that Yiannopoulos was actively shopping his proposal to various right-wing imprints, with minimal success,” Katy Waldman writes. “Multiple publishing houses specifically told me that they had turned down his book.” Of course there’s no glory or gain now in declaring yourself an underbidder, but it’s not clear that anyone but Threshold offered for Milo’s book. The Times may misconstrue agent Thomas Flannery Jr.’s remark that “virtually every major conservative imprint expressed interest” (expressing interest is different from bidding) as […]
Threshold to Publish Yiannopoulos’s DANGEROUS, But UK Division Opts Out
Threshold Editions confirmed an earlier report from The Hollywood Reporter that they will publish Breitbart News editor and Twitter troll (now permanently banned from the service) Milo Yiannopoulous’s DANGEROUS on March 14, 2017. The publisher said in the announcement: “Dangerous will be a book on free speech by the outspoken and controversial gay British writer and editor at Breitbart News who describes himself as ‘the most fabulous supervillain on the internet.'” Threshold acquired world rights from Thomas Flannery at AGI Vigliano, with THR citing “people with knowledge of the situation” that Yiannopoulos is receiving a $250,000 advance. Yiannopoulos added to […]
Pantsuit Nation Founder Clarifies Book Deal and Nonprofit Status After Criticism
Earlier this week the founder of the private Facebook group Pantsuit Nation faced criticism and controversy following the announcement of coffee-table book comprising member posts set to be published in May by Flatiron Books. Founded by Libby Chamberlain in October for Hillary Clinton supporters to express enthusiasm for their candidate, and then a place for them to commiserate after Clinton’s election loss, at least some vocal members of the nearly four-million person group took issue with the book deal, as a “betrayal of safe space” and for seeming to sell the group out. In a public follow-up Facebook message, Chamberlain clarified how member […]