At the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, Jennifer Rofe has been promoted to agent and Jennifer Mattson has joined the group as an associate agent. he was formerly a book review editor at Booklist and an editor at Dutton children’s books. Ginny Weissman is no longer with Martin Literary Management. In the UK, at Portobello Books, Laura Barber has been promoted to editorial director with immediate effect. She continues to report to Philip Gwyn Jones, publisher of Granta Books and Portobello Books. At Da Capo Press, Katie McHugh has been promoted to executive editor.
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People: Carnicelli to Trident
Matthew Carnicelli, who founded Carnicelli Literary Management in 2004 after years as an editor, is joining Trident Media Group on February 17.
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Gary Heidt has left FinePrint Literary Management to form Signature Literary Agency in partnership with Ellen Pepus in Washington, DC. Pepus worked at Graybill and English before starting her own agency. At the Simon & Schuster imprint, assistant managing editor Michael Szczerban in now an assistant editor, reporting to editor-in-chief Priscilla Painton. Kate Ankofski has been promoted to assistant editor.
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Isabel White has left Brie Burkeman to set up her own London-based agency representing high-quality, entertaining fiction and nonfiction. Sandy Lu of the Vanguard Literary Agency is joining Lori Perkins at the L. Perkins Agency as an associate agent. Fredric Nachbaur has been named Director of Fordham University Press effective February 17. Most recently he was marketing and sales director at NYU Press. A memorial service for critic, editor and novelist John Leonard will be held on Monday, March 2 at 6:00 PM at Landmark on the Park, 160 Central Park West. Toni Morrison, Victor Navasky, Gloria Steinem, Eugenia Zukerman, […]
John Updike, 76, Dies of Lung Cancer
The writer died yesterday morning, first announced with “great sadness” in a brief statement from his publisher, Knopf. “John was one of our greatest writers. He was a part of the Knopf family for over fifty years. We will all miss him terribly.” His longtime editor Judith Jones told USA Today that he was diagnosed after Thanksgiving. Coverage, obituaries, and testimonials abound. Among them:AP obitUSA Today storyChristopher Lehmann-Haupt’s NYT obitKakutani‘s appraisalDavid Ulin in the LATAnd The New Yorker has a number of reminiscences from other staff writers posted on their books blog
Harper Presents Retirement Offer
This morning HarperCollins presented to US employees internally a voluntary retirement package, available to people over age 55 who have been with the company for more than five years. The offer was made to employees at the company’s New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles offices and their Scranton warehouse. It does not extend to Zondervan or any Harper units outside of the US for now; spokesperson Erin Crum notes that “each business area has different needs and legal requirements.” Noting that they company “has never done anything like this before,” Crum would not indicate a target number of job […]