Former longtime Google executive Tom Turvey has joined Anthropic as vice president, product partnerships, "overseeing the strategy, development, and launches of innovative and impactful products and features."
Workers at Upper West Side Barnes & Noble Unionize
Employees at the Barnes & Noble on West 82nd Street in Manhattan intend to form a union with the RWDSU. The union will represent approximately 50 employees including booksellers, baristas, cashiers, maintenance, and all “non-supervisory employees.” They have asked the company to voluntarily recognize the union and have also filed an election petition with the NLRB. According to a release, workers “have concerns over job security, a lack of structure when it comes to job duties and tasks at work, and favoritism by management.” “I care a lot about my coworkers,” bookseller Eve Greenlow said. “I want the best for them, […]
Ask An Expert: Lucinda Halpern
Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent and the founder of Lucinda Literary, based in New York. She currently represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of personal growth, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction. Her classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide, and became the inspiration for her new book Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; February 6, 2024). In GET SIGNED, you discuss why it’s important to commit to a genre and find comp titles. Can you talk […]
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Alessandra Bastagli joins One Signal next week as vp and publisher. Bastagli has been editorial director at Astra House. She succeeds founding publisher Julia Cheiffetz, who left in January.
Obituaries: Beth Vesel; Jeff Wilson
Beth Vesel, 66, president of Beth Vesel Literary Agency, died suddenly of a heart attack on February 16. Her publishing career spanned 40 years, first at Watkins/Loomis Agency, and later at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. She founded BVLA in 2003. A funeral will be held on Friday, February 23 at 6 pm at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 W. 64th St, New York City. Jeff Wilson, vice president, contracts at Hachette Book Group, died on Wednesday, February 14. Wilson joined HBG in December 2022 after a long career at Simon & Schuster. Min Lee, evp, general counsel […]
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Roger Priddy, publisher of Priddy Books, will retire on June 30, after which he will continue to work with the imprint as an author and consultant.