Kyle Olund has joined Thomas Nelson as senior acquisitions editor for W Publishing. Most recently, he was executive editor for Worthy Books and FaithWords. UK wholesale Gardner’s has reopened their business that ships individual books to consumers on behalf of retailers, on a limited basis. Customers are limited to just one book per order, and they can only ship inventory that is already in stock. Reference Pages We have continued to update our sharable, free web pages on resources and measures the publishing community is taking. Continue to let us know as you add initiatives and information, and share these simple […]
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Siobhan McBride has joined Carnicelli Literary Management as associate agent representing literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was most recently at Sobel Weber Associates. Tammy Faxel, 55, publisher at Dreamscape Media, died on March 30. She joined Dreamscape in 2014, and helped grow the company’s audiobook publishing program to over 900 titles annually. Prior to that, she led Waterfall Press for Brilliance Publishing, after working at Tyndale House and Oasis Audio. Picks Reese Witherspoon chose Untamed by Glennon Doyle as her April book club pick. Pennie’s Pick at Costco for April is a new hardcover release, The Yellow Bird […]
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Cheryl Eissing has been promoted to associate editor at Philomel Books. Mary Moates has joined St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books as publicity manager. She was previously publicist at Random House. Ginny Dominguez has joined Macmillan Children’s as studio manager for the Roaring Brook Press, FSG, Feiwel and Friends, and Holt Children’s design team. She was previously a managing editor at Abrams. Bridget Kinsella has joined Stanford University Press as publicist. Most recently, she was publicity manager at Harper One. Distribution Status Hachette Book Group reports that their new operating model in the Lebanon, IN warehouse “incorporates social distancing while enabling us to […]
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Laura Mazer has joined Wendy Sherman Associates as a literary agent representing adult nonfiction. Previously, she was executive editor at Seal Press. Bookselling Powell’s Books announced that they have rehired some of the employees they fired earlier in the month due to strong online orders. It was widely misreported that the store has rehired over 100 people — whereas what ceo and owner Emily Powell wrote on Facebook was that “over 100” people are working at the store again. The union representing many Powell’s workers clarified to the Oregonian “that the bookstore has only recalled 49 union workers, and said […]
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Shannon Marchese will join the Tommy Nelson children’s imprint as vp, publisher, starting April 13 and reporting to Laura Minchew. She was most recently executive editor at WaterBrook & Multnomah and Convergent. Kathy Wielgosz has joined Macmillan Children’s as production editor. She was most recently an assistant production editor at Little, Brown. The Book Industry Study Group has a brief survey posted on current and expected supply-chain issues in the wake of the pandemic, in advance of an April 9 online conversation moderated by members of the BISG board that will discuss challenges and opportunities across the book industry supply […]
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Director, Canada sales, Macmillan Hank Cochrane is moving to Picador as vp and associate publisher as of April 6. He will oversee the Picador list, and report to publisher of FSG and Picador Mitzi Angel, with a dotted line to Holt president and publisher Amy Einhorn. Angel says in the announcement, “Many of us at FSG, Holt, and St. Martin’s Press know Hank for his good humor, his intelligence, and his commitment to our books. With his deep publishing expertise and excellent understanding of the marketplace, he is the ideal leader to guide and grow our best-in-class paperback list.” Newly […]