Jane Friedman has left Writer’s Digest to work as a visiting professor of e-media, in the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
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Basic Books executive editor Tim Sullivan is leaving the company, and will join Harvard Business Publishing as executive editor on September 1. Lucy Del Priore will join Macmillan Children’s as director of school and library marketing at the end of the month. Most recently a publishing consultant and freelancer, she spent most of her career at Penguin Children’s, most recently as their director of school and library marketing
More On Elaine Koster
Her agency has issued a formal statement that includes remembrances from some her authors: Khaled Hosseini says, “I am deeply saddened by Elaine’s passing. Elaine was a wonderful agent, and I owe my career to her. She opened her door to me when no one else would. She was a loyal and dear friend, and I will miss greatly her warmth, her encouragement, and her unfailing belief in me.” According to Mr. Hosseini, when she received his manuscript for The Kite Runner, she left him a voice mail offering representation, in which she said, “I guarantee you your book will […]
Remembering Elaine Koster
Agent and former publisher of NAL Elaine Koster died on Tuesday in New York, at age 69. In the second phase of her career Koster founded an eponymous literary agency in 1998, where she represented Khaled Hosseini among others. While publisher at NAL, she famously acquired paperback reprint rights to Stephen King’s CARRIE from Doubleday for $400,000 at the beginning of his career Chandler Crawford at the Chandler Crawford Agency, who represented translation rights for the Koster Agency’s books, said: “I am heartbroken that Elaine has died, though I take comfort in knowing how much she did for the publishing […]
New Team Approach Planned for Simon & Schuster
New S&S publisher Jonathan Karp iterated more changes internally today, setting out “a new publishing approach” in concert with staff discussions in which people “expressed a desire to embrace new ways of doing things.” In a scheme that may answer the question of how you take the focused publishing model of the Twelve imprint and apply it to a larger operation, in early 2011 S&S will reorganize into “small teams of editors, publicists, and marketing specialists.” Each team will comprise approximately two editors, two publicists and a marketing specialist. Karp writes that the teams “will propose, develop, and execute their […]
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Former Billboard and Hollywood reporter pbulisher and one-time ceo of IDG books John Kilcullen has joined web-based self-publisher FastPencil’s board of directors. Kilcullen is now a brand management consultant based in California.