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Join Megan Lynch online at Publishers Marketplace Wednesday, May 19 at noon Eastern, the latest guest on our forum Discuss, to ask questions about acquisitions and agents that face editors. The discussion will happen at this link. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Megan will post back. You can post questions ahead of time, too, if you wish.

Hachette Book Group released its annual diversity update for 2020. The company increased staff diversity at every level, “with the largest gain in the senior managers category (director & above), which rose 31 percent” — though that echelon remains 79.5 percent white. Only 3.1 percent of that management category is Black, and 3.9 percent of the total workforce. The number of BIPOC-identifying employees increased by seven percent in the year, and other efforts including raising starting salaries to $45,000, “an important step in making our hiring practices more inclusive”; and hiring vp diversity and inclusion, Carrie Bloxson, who joined the […]

Democratic members of Congress Ted Lieu of California and Teresa Leger Fernandez of New Mexico introduced new legislation on Thursday that would create a $60 million Federal Writers Project bill. To be administered by the Department of Labor, the bill would provide money to nonprofits, libraries, news outlets and communications unions in an effort to create jobs and support to writers suffering from income losses because of the pandemic. The legislation is inspired by the 1935 Federal Writers’ Project of the New Deal Era, which, at its peak, provided employment to 6,000 writers. In addition to making jobs, the representatives […]

Join agent and attorney Jesseca Salky online at PM today at noon Eastern, the latest guest on our forum Discuss, to ask questions about legal issues that face authors and agents. The discussion will happen at this link. A reminder that these are straightforward typed message board conversations. No cameras, no sound, no zooming, no separate apps required. Use the “reply” button to type your questions or comments, and Jesseca will post back.