At the American Booksellers Association, longtime development officer Mark Nichols will retire following the 2017 Winter Institute after 16 years with the organization. As of January 1, 2017 Matthew Zoni will be promoted to director of development and publisher relations and will become a member of ABA’s senior staff. Peter Reynolds will have an expanded role as project manager and with primary responsibility for the Indie Next Lists and the Indie Bestseller Lists. Gen de Botton will move up to ABC group manager. Additionally, David Grogan has been promoted to director of public policy and advocacy and will also join ABA’s senior staff. Kimberly Whalen has left Trident Media […]
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Steven Pace will join Norton on January 2 as director, trade sales, succeeding William Rusin, who is retiring after 45 years with the company at 36 years as director of trade sales. Pace was previously sales director at Workman. Norton vp trade sales & marketing Brendan Curry said in the announcement: “There are few people who could step smoothly into the shoes of the exceptional Bill Rusin, but Steven Pace is superbly qualified to do so. With his background in all aspects of book sales at firms both large and small, his outstanding reputation for management and leadership, and his sterling […]
Briefs: Macmillan to Publish with NY Public Library, Reacher Stories, and More
Macmillan evp Will Schwalbe has brokered a deal with Carrie Welch at the New York Public Library “to create and publish a wide variety of print and e-books for adults and for children drawing from and inspired by” the library’s collection. Michael Flamini will oversee the adult program, and Jean Feiwel and Christian are overseeing the children’s line. Among the first adult titles will be a book featuring menus from the library’s collection of 45,000 New York eatery menus and Book Face, collecting top posts from the #bookface Instagram. Early children’s titles include a coloring book featuring vintage art; a picture book starring the […]
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Danielle Smith has left Red Fox Literary after three years to launch her own literary agency, Lupine Grove Creative, with most of her clients set to follow her to the new agency. Playwright Kia Corthron has won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (Seven Stories Press). Green Apple Books music buyer and DJ Johnny Igaz, 34, who had been missing in the Oakland warehouse fire, was confirmed by the Coroner on Tuesday as among the identified victims. Forthcoming Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will write a memoir of his […]
Bad Little Children’s Books Is Still Available; Abrams Meant They Will Not Reprint It
Clarifying their earlier statement, Abrams says that when they agreed to the author’s request to “cease publishing” the suddenly controversial Bad Little Children’s Books, what they meant is that they will not reprint the book. With an announced first printing of 30,000 copies — so figure maybe half that were printed — and sales as recorded by outlets tracked by Nielsen Bookscan through this past weekend of approximately 4,200 copies, that still should leave some copies in the supply chain to sell through. Some online sellers are out of stock are a demand spike from the publicity earlier this week, though […]
Abrams Withdraws Bad Little Children’s Book At Author’s Request
Recent articles in Book Riot (It’s Not Funny, It’s Racist) and the Huffington Post (…Isn’t Just Offensive, It’s Bad Comedy) that were amplified on social media led publisher Abrams to the withdraw the book under fire, Bad Little Children’s Books — “respecting the author’s request” to do. Initially, Abrams had responded online two days to support the book, saying: “It was never our intention as publisher, nor the author’s, to spread or support hateful messaging. Some reviewers and commenters on social media have taken elements of the book at face value, which, we believe, misses the point of the book […]