Ryan Doherty has moved over from Ballantine to Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor, reporting to Jane von Mehren. And Erika Greber has joined the Random House Publishing Group as assistant marketing manager for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. She was a marketing associate at Random House Audio. At Simon & Schuster, Kate Ankofski has been promoted to associate editor. Elsewhere in the company, Meredith Wahl-Jones moves over to the Free Press as a publicist, after working as an associate publicist at Scribner. Samhain Publishing has hired Heather Osborn as editorial director, reporting […]
Harlequin “Rebranding” Will Eliminate Silhouette Name
As part of a “re-envisioning” of their brand and logos conducted with the help of Pentagram, Harlequin has written to authors, informing them that the Silhouette name will be retired in April 2011. Executives Donna Hayes and Loriana Sacilotto write that the various Silhouette series will all become Harlequin-branded lines. “As you know, Silhouette Nocturne became Harlequin Nocturne in June of this year. Special Edition, Romantic Suspense and Desire will appear with their new Harlequin brand in April. Rebranding the Silhouette series as Harlequin will ensure that these series benefit from the promotional resources dedicated to the Harlequin brand and […]
100 Years Later, A Twain Bestseller
The first volume of Mark Twain’s posthumous autobiography from the University of California Press jumped to the top of bestseller lists at Amazon (currently No. 2) and Barnes & Noble (No. 3) yesterday. It has an official publication date of November 15, but the book (and ebook) was unveiled at a Mark Twain festival in Calavaras County, CA last Friday and is available now. Weekend publicity included a feature in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a segment on CBS Sunday Morning.Calavaras County coverage
People, Awards, Etc.
ICM has hired Nick Harris from Mosaic (which he joined last November) as co-head of their book-to-film department, alongside the newly-promoted Josie Freedman, who has been at ICM since 2001. Harris was a partner at Rabineau Wachter Sanford Harris, and prior to that worked at AP Watt. Borders has named Scott Henry as their new evp, chief financial officer, effective today, filling the post vacated by Mark Bierley in August. Henry, 45, has been president of business and financial consulting services firm S.D. Henry Strategic Services, after five years as cfo of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Barnes & Noble has […]
OverDrive Takes Outside Investment
Private equity firm Insight Venture Partners has made “a major investment” in digital content distributor OverDrive, which the company will use to “provide additional resources” and “help fuel growth.” Insight managing director Larry Handen says in the announcement, “We are particularly excited about OverDrive’s strong growth, market leadership, and commitment to customers. Our investment coincides with the 20th consecutive quarter of continuous profitability. This is a tribute to the company’s management team.” With a capital base of $3 billion, Insight focuses on software, Internet and data services companies. OverDrive founder and CEO Steve Potash adds, “The combination of Insight’s focus […]
Lunch Weekly for Monday, October 18
Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Author of the story collection KNOCKEMSTIFF and recipient of the PEN/Bingham […]