Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was an intern at BookEnds and recipient of a We Need Diverse Books grant. James McGowan has been promoted to associate agent. Finally Forthcoming Blake Bailey‘s long-awaited biography of the late Philip Roth, written based on a collaboration agreement with Roth, will be published by Norton […]
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Jackie Williams has joined The Knight Agency as associate agent, seeking fantasy, science fiction, mystery, suspense, contemporary, and young adult. She was previously with Chronicle Books. Ewan Turner has been promoted to managing editor of Philip Turner Book Productions. A fiction writer (and son of the founder), he heads up a new division, New Stories, devoted to cultivating new work in fiction, memoir, and essays. Kajal Mistry has been promoted to publisher of Hardie Grant Books UK. Eve Marleau moves up to commissioning editor. Layoffs UK bookseller Waterstones will layoff an unspecified number of employees at its headquarters, as sales […]
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At the Workman Publishing imprint, Danny Cooper and Rachael Mt. Pleasant have each been promoted to senior editor and Sarah Curley to assistant editor. Gracie Elliott becomes assistant editor within the children’s department and Kelly Lynch creative director, calendars. SarahMay Harel has been promoted to manager, website operations and ecommerce across all Workman Publishing imprints. Alex Kelleher-Nagorski has joined Scholastic as associate director of publicity. He was previously publicity manager at Little, Brown Children’s. Kate Pollard has joined Welbeck Publishing as associate publisher for the Orange Hippo gift and lifestyle list. She was most recently publishing director, Hardie Grant UK. Stacey Graham has […]
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Vanessa Campos has joined D4EO Literary Agency as an agent. She was previously sales and marketing director of Entrepreneur Press. Mariah Nichols has been promoted to literary agent. Imprints In the UK, Hodder & Stoughton has created the Hodder Studio imprint, which “brings together creative minds from a wide range of backgrounds and media industries.” and is “acquiring books with international aspirations, exploring original partnerships and developing new relationships with audiences.” The imprint will include audio, and the first books launch in October 2020 through to 2022. Jamie Hodder-Williams heads the imprint and Myfanwy Moore is publisher. (Moore was previously a TV […]
Briefs: Mary Trump’s Continuing Sales, and More
Mary Trump’s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH sold over 1.35 million units across all formats during its first week on sale in the US, Simon & Schuster reported. Another hardcover reprint will give them 1.35 million copies in print when it delivers. That suggests continuing sales of about 400,000 units after pre-orders and the first day on sale, and an added 200,000 hardcovers in print since their first sales announcement a week ago. NPD Bookscan charted sales of over 337,000 hardcovers in the channels they measure, through July 18. Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder at Addictive Picture and producer Jay […]
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Jenna Quatraro has been promoted to senior graphic design manager at Sourcebooks. Stephen S. Power has joined ghostwriting and publishing services firm Kevin Anderson & Associates as an executive editor. Previously he was executive editor at Thomas Dunne. Angus Cargill has been promoted to publishing director at Faber & Faber. Katharine Nelson has joined Canbury Press in the new position of director of sales, marketing and publicity. She was previously director of trade marketing and publicity at Lonely Planet. Obituaries Josephine Cox, 82, author of 60 books including Her Father’s Sins and The Beachcomber, died on July 17. Accomplished cover […]