Check out former Villard editorial director Bruce Tracy‘s long essay in the NY Post on his transitional year from being laid off by Random House to finding his way to satisfying roster of freelance editing relationships.NYP The shortlist for the UK’s Arthur C Clarke award for best sci-fi novel of the year was announced.Guardian
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The Rights Factory has hired Ali McDonald as associate agent, expanding the agency in children’s middle-grade and YA properties. At Harper UK, David Roth-Ey has been promoted to the new position of group digital publisher and Eric Winbolt takes the new role of group director of innovation, with both reporting to global evp for digital Charlie Redmayne and Harper UK publisher Belinda Budge.
A New Stephen King Novella, Hely Hutchinson's Forecast, and More
Cemetery Dance will publish a new Stephen King novella as a trade hardcover next month, BLOCKADE BILLY. The pitch: “Even diehard baseball fans don’t know the true story of William Blakely, but in just a few weeks you’ll be holding this dark tale in your own two hands so you can read it for yourself.” King comments, “I love old-school baseball, and I also love the way people who’ve spent a lifetime in the game talk about the game. I tried to combine those things in a story of suspense. People have asked me for years when I was going […]
HMH Realigns Sales & Marketing Department; Heilemann and Halperin's 2012 Presidential Campaign Book to Penguin Press; and Other Announcements
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced a realignment of the Trade and Reference Group’s sales & marketing division. Laurie Brown, previously SVP of Sales, has been named Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, reporting to Gary Gentel. SVP, Director of Marketing Bridget Marmion, who has been at HMH for eleven years, will be leaving after company.John Heilemann and Mark Halperin‘s 2012 presidential campaign book will be published the following year by Penguin Press, which Crain’s reports paid about $5 million (after HarperCollins, which published Game Change earlier this year, dropped out of the bidding earlier this week.)Crain’s New York Former Poet […]
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Langenscheidt Publishing Group President Marc Jennings has resigned from the company, effective immediately. He is replaced by John Muchnicki, who is being tasked with streamlining Langenscheidt’s stateside operation and positioning the company for new growth going forward. Sonya Safro has joined Twelve as an Associate Publicist. Previously she was at Knopf, where she was an Associate Publicist. Harold McGraw, Jr., who began at McGraw-Hill as a sales rep in 1947 and was elected president in 1974 and CEO a year later, died at his home in Darien, Ct. at the age of 92.NYT obit Ai Ogawa, the National Book Award […]
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Barnes & Noble has named Dan Gilbert as Executive Vice President, Operations and Customer Service, responsible for managing the company’s warehousing and fulfillment to its retail and digital operations. Previously he was Vice President of Customer Operations for Cisco Systems. Liz Querio has joined Sourcebooks as a marketing manager. She was most recently was most recently a senior marketing specialist with OfficeMax. Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.NBN International will move to a new 80,000 square feet facility in Plymouth, England later this summer, a move made necessary by sales […]