New Zealand will be the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012, running from October 10 – 14. At Random House Children’s Books’ Delacorte Press, Rebecca Short has been promoted to Assistant Editor. Acting register of copyrights for the past five months Maria Pallante will now officially take over the position on a standing basis. At one point in her career, she was assistant director of the Authors Guild.
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People: Dolan Gets New Imprint at HMH, and More
In what has to be considered a case of turnabout being fair play, Eamon Dolan will leave Penguin Press for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to become VP and Editorial Director of his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, starting on June 13. Before he’d moved to Penguin Press as editor-in-chief in 2007 – a title removed with Scott Moyers’ return earlier this month as publisher, with Ann Godoff taking on editor-in-chief duties – Dolan held the same title at what was then Houghton Mifflin, editing books by Eric Schlosser, Buzz Bissinger, Jerome Groopman and David Sheff. The new imprint will concentrate on […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Emma Donoghue and Michael Winter are among the nominees for Canada’s Trillium Book Awards, whose winners will be announced on June 17. National Post Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor reported receiving an advance of $1.175 million from Knopf for her forthcoming memoir last year, according to financial disclosure forms. Newspapers report the sum as if it is the entire advance, but our readers will know it likely represents only a third or a fourth of the total advance to be paid over time. A $1 million advance is what the NY Post is reporting Jennifer Hudson and agent Mel Berger […]
Wylie, As Ever, In the WSJ
So it’s already well-established that, even as I read more “legacy” journalism about book publishing than most folks, I’m still a bit baffled by their process. A prime example is this weekend’s Andrew Wylie (the ‘Jackalope”) feature in the WSJ Magazine. What happens, exactly, when a writer pitches an editor (or vice versa) on doing the exact same credulous story on Andrew Wylie remains a mystery to me. And who is the one who keeps coming up with the great idea of taking a new picture of Wylie scowling menacingly? Wylie is a good and effective agent, but why is […]
People, Etc.: Pfund Is OUP US President, Koepp to TIHE, and More
Niko Pfund has been named president of Oxford University Press USA, where he has served as acting president since December 2010, continuing to serve as academic publisher as well. Interim editor of Newsweek Steve Koepp is returing to Time (where he had been deputy managing editor of Time magazine and executive editor of Fortune) to become editorial director of Time Home Entertainment, the company’s book and bookazine division. He will oversee the development of books, both print and digital, for all the magazine publisher’s news group, style & entertainment and LIFE brands. University of North Carolina Press is promoting senior […]
People, Etc.
Michael Barber has joined Pearson in the newly created position of chief executive adviser, reporting to Marjorie Scardino. Barber is currently a partner at McKinsey & Company and head of its global education practice. John Bond is leaving HarperCollins UK at the end of June by “mutual agreement.” Bond was managing director of Press Books, which will now be run by ceo Victoria Barnsley, assisted by special projects director Katie Fulford, until a replacement is found. Thomas Nelson Gift & Children’s division has announced a number of new hires. Jennifer Barrow joins as editor, Micah Walker moves up to assistant […]