Barnes & Noble chose The Snow Hare by Paula Lichtarowicz as their February National Book Club.
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Quynh Do will join Knopf as senior editor, starting February 1 and reporting to Andrew Miller, vp & editorial director, Knopf Nonfiction. She was most recently senior editor at Zando.
Imprints: Minerva, Great Place Books
Astra Books for Young Readers is rebranding its children’s imprint mineditionUS to Minerva. New books published by editorial director Maria Russo will be under the Minerva name. Previously published mineditionUS titles and their reprints will keep that imprint name, and select picture books and board books imported from the European minedition publishing program, which is […]
Meena Harris, HBG Launch Phenomenal Media Books
Hachette Book Group is launching Phenomenal Media Books, to be led by Phenomenal Media founder and ceo Meena Harris. The line will “develop and acquire works from underrepresented voices across multiple genres, fiction and nonfiction, and for audiences of all ages, from children to adults.” Titles will be published in collaboration with Grand Central and […]
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At Scholastic, Katie Willkens has been promoted to assistant managing editor, licensing. Steve Alexandrov has been promoted to director of production, trade marketing. Vicki Tisch has been promoted to senior director of marketing operations.
Trump Lawyer Threatens To Pursue “All Legal Remedies” Against Pomerantz Book
Donald Trump’s lawyer Joseph Tacopina sent a letter to Mark Pomerantz, author of forthcoming PEOPLE VS. DONALD TRUMP, threatening to “aggressively pursue all legal remedies” against the author and publisher Simon & Schuster if the book is published. The book is due out on February 7. Tacopina’s letter claims Pomerantz has made defamatory statements about […]