Penguin Random House UK has shut down events arm Penguin Connect, which connected authors with businesses for corporate events, The Bookseller reports. The three employees who worked on the team have left the company.
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Young Adult Buzz Books Editors Panel in One Week
Our virtual Buzz Books Young Adult Editors Panel will be Wednesday, June 8 at noon Eastern. Our editors panels are curated, free events. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with our own Erin Somers as host. You can register here — and the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. Our just-released digital sampler, Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter includes substantial excerpts from the YA Editors Panel books, along with dozens of other not-yet-published breakout titles. The Young Adult Buzz Panel will feature these authors and editors […]
Events: ABA Annual Meeting Postponed, Bologna Dates Set
The ABA‘s annual meeting and town hall, set to take place this afternoon, has been postponed to July 14 at 2:00. Elsewhere, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair announced that it will take place March 6-9 2023.
Obituary: Lawrence David
Author and former Random House Children’s editor Lawrence David died on May 7. He was the author of the novels Family Values and Need, plus 18 picture books and the middle grade series Horace Splattly.
Panel: What Does A Healthy Publishing Industry Look Like?
At a US Book Show session on Tuesday titled “What Does a Healthy Publishing Industry Look Like?,” panelists addressed persistent challenges including supply chain issues, burnout, and getting attention for new books and authors during the pandemic. Moderated by Astra House senior editor Daniel Vazquez, it featured Donya Craddock, co-owner of The Dock Bookshop; Morgan Entrekin, ceo and publisher of Grove Atlantic; Mary Rasenberger, ceo of The Authors Guild & The Authors Guild Foundation; and Joe Matthews, ceo of Independent Publishers Group. The panelists cited pandemic-related obstacles in every corner of the business. Entrekin mentioned the difficulty of “trying to […]
“It’s a Book, Not a Kidney On Ice”: Panelists Discuss Urgency, Burnout, and Supporting Employees
“Everything was fine until the pandemic when we all started questioning our existence,” said moderator Paul Bogaards, former Knopf evp of publicity and marketing and owner of Bogaards Public Relations, opening a US Book Show panel on The Pandemic and Publishing: How Has Covid Changed the Industry for Good? With panelists Jennifer Enderlin, president and publisher of St. Martin’s Publishing Group; Monica Odom, founder and literary agent at Odom Media Management; Anjali Singh, agent at Ayesha Pande Literary; and Julia Sommerfeld, publisher at Amazon Publishing, Bogaards posed questions without easy answers and speakers discussed the dualities of the publishing industry […]