More Personnel News Lynn Grady will become associate publisher for Morrow, HarperEntertainment and Eos starting next week, reporting to Lisa Gallagher. Grady moves over from her job as marketing director at Regan Books. Kim Hadney will take Grady’s old post at Regan Books. She was most recently director of advertising and promotion at Dutton and […]
Lunch for Friday, March 4
Our Own News We have a number of new initiatives and refinements to tell you about. The first is that we have significantly improved and relaunched our Who Represents database. The new version presents about 12,500 individual representation records, and along the way implements more consistent agent and agency names, and eliminates previous duplication. As […]
Lunch for Thursday, March 3
As Indicated Yesterday This Lunch was rudely prepared while we were paying only partial (but continuous) attention to the speakers at today’s AAP annual meeting. Convened in NY this year (rather than the usual Washington venue), the event drew somewhere between 250 and 300 people. (In the absence of invited opening speaker Laura Bush, DisneyWars […]
Lunch for Wednesday, March 2
Schedule Note I’ll be at the AAP meeting all day tomorrow, multi-tasking away; Lunch will be served at some point, but there’s no telling exactly when. Perseus Drops Harper Perseus will no longer distribute its books through HarperCollins, beginning September 1 in the US, and January 1 in Canada. In an uncharacteristic fashion that we’ll […]
Lunch for Tuesday, March 1
Von Mehren to Boost Random Trade Paper; Ebershoff Becomes Editor-at-Large Jane von Mehren is leaving her post as editor-in-chief and associate publisher of Penguin to take the new position of publisher, trade paperbacks at the Random House publishing group. Starting March 23, she will oversee lines from Ballantine, Modern Library and Random House, and will […]
Lunch for Monday, February 28
Triple Problems at Penguin Pull Down Pearson Results; Weak 2005 Forecast Means $10 Mil Charge at Penguin US Following their warning to financial markets in mid-January, Pearson’s annual performance came in at the low end of expectations, and profits fell 6 percent overall, reflecting a triple whammy: the weak dollar, the Penguin UK warehouse mess, […]