Sandy Hodgman will manage foreign rights on a part-time basis for LJK Literary Management and The Jud Laghi Agency starting May 1. She has sold foreign rights for HarperCollins and The Robbins Office. Both agencies will continue to work with co-agents in most territories, and to sell rights directly in the UK and Netherlands. On Demand Books has hired Steve Sutton as vp, director of university and library sales and Susie Stroud as vp, director of content acquisition. Most recently Sutton was vp, library services and director of new business development at YBP Library Services and Stroud was national accounts […]
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Awards, People and More
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has named its new class of fourteen fellows. The list includes fiction writers David Bezmozgis, Maile Chapman, Mary Gaitskill, and Wells Tower; poet Geoffrey Brock; New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar; graphic novelist and artist David Sandlin; and Pulitzer-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed. Jo Ann Miller, former editorial director of Basic Books, has formed J.A. Miller Associates to provide ghost writing, editorial collaboration, developmental editing, and author coaching. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Maire Gorman has been promoted to the new position of vp of trade sales […]
People, Etc.
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 […]