At Balzer + Bray, Sara Sargent has been promoted to associate editor. In the UK, Joel Rickett has been promoted to publisher of Viking UK and Portfolio UK. Ruth Alltimes will move to Harper Children’s UK as publishing director, fiction in January, reporting to fiction and licensed properties director, Rachel Denwood. She has been publishing director of the fiction list at Macmillan Children’s UK. Patti Smith discusses with Billboard her plans for a few books she is working on “simultaneously,” including her next memoir. She says it “is in more of the ‘Just Kids’ vein and even in the similar time period, […]
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At William Morrow/Avon, Tessa Woodward has been promoted to editor. Anne Hoppe will join Clarion Books as senior executive editor on January 23. Previously she was executive editor at Harper Children’s. Esi Sogah will join Kensington as senior editor on January 2. She was most recently associate editor at Avon. Midpoint will take over distribution in the US for gift, reference and cookbook publisher New Holland UK. They were previously distributed by Sterling. (Midpoint already distributes New Holland Australia.)
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The New York Times‘ first ebook with Byliner, John Branch’s SNOW FALL, which was set for release today, has been postponed. NYT spokesperson Danielle Rhoades Ha says “it is pegged to a news story that will run in the Times, which was held.” A revised publication date is to be determined. To see the full list of 25 launch titles in their TimesFiles line of ebooks, which did launch today (available for now from Amazon and the iBookstore), visit this page in the NYT Store. Quayside Publishing Group will distribute lines from some of parent company Quarto’s UK lines. They […]
People: Graham Promoted to SVP, Publisher at Scribner
Nan Graham has been promoted to svp, publisher of Scribner, reporting to Scribner Publishing Group president Susan Moldow. “As if Nan hadn’t amply proven how deserved this promotion is by her firm hand in shaping the list and staff and insuring the growth of the Scribner imprint over the last eighteen years, her performance of late surely demonstrates that she continues to exercise her singular editorial instincts, abilities, and leadership qualities at the highest levels,” Moldow said in the announcement. “[Graham’s] tireless work and shining insights for every book on the Scribner list have made Nan’s contribution to the success […]
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Jennifer Garza has joined the Simon & Schuster publicity department as publicity manager. Previously she worked at Media Connect. Novelist Jennifer Egan and Knopf Doubleday executive editor Erroll McDonald are joining the PEN American Center board of trustees. Ben Fountain won the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction for his novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. The award was presented at a ceremony in New York Tuesday night that also honored New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman with the organization’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction.
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The NYT now has a full obituary for literary agent Robert Lescher. As widely publicized elsewhere, Random House ceo Markus Dohle happily surprised staff at the company’s annual holiday party Wednesday night in announcing that all US employees who have been with the company for a year or more will receive a special $5,000 bonus. (Roughly “a few thousand” people qualify; people who have worked there for less than a year will receive a pro-rated bonus.) Dohle invoked the memory of recently deceased cfo Anne Davis and said the “thank you payment” was one of the last initiatives he and […]