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Lunch for Friday, February 17

February 17, 2006
By Michael Cader

Personnel News At HarperCollins, Marion Maneker has been named vp, publisher of Collins Business. He is credited with “expanding the range of books the imprint publishes and substantially improving its financial performance.” Separately, Tracy von Straaten is the latest veteran Simon & Schuster executive to head elsewhere. She will join Scholastic at the end of March in the new position of vp, trade publicity, overseeing all publicity for Scholastic’s trade books, reporting to Trade Marketing vp Suzanne Murphy. Von Straaten has been executive director at Simon & Schuster Children’s. And elsewhere in the publicity world, David Moench will join Ballantine […]

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Lunch for Thursday, February 16

February 16, 2006
By Michael Cader

Organizations Rally to Limit Trademark Expansion The Authors Guild has joined with a variety of other organizations (including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Library Association) in alerting members to the potential dangers of the Trademark Dilution Revision Act, which comes before a Senate sub-committee today for hearings. (The House has already passed the legislation last April.) Yet another step in corporate-friendly intellectual property law, the particular concern of the Guild is that the bill as currently written would weaken traditional protections for noncommercial and news reporting usage of trademarks. In other words, simply mentioning trademarks in the text […]

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Lunch for Wednesday, February 15

February 15, 2006
By Michael Cader

Personnel News Paul Slovak has been promoted from associate publisher to publisher at Viking, overseeing “both the direction and the shape of the list and the execution of the Viking publishing program,” and continuing as an editor for Viking Penguin, Molly Stern has been named editorial director of fiction for Viking (in addition to her current title of executive editor at Viking Penguin) and Wendy Wolf has been named editorial director of non-fiction (also retaining her executive editor title). All three will continue to report to Viking president Clare Ferraro. In another shuffling of the deck at the Random House […]

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Lunch for Tuesday, February 14

February 14, 2006
By Michael Cader

RH Films Gets Focus Random House Films has selected two properties as the starting point for their film production joint venture with Focus Features. Variety reports that they will begin with Yasmina Khadra’s (a pen name for former Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul) forthcoming novel THE ATTACK, said to have already sold over 100,000 copies in France, and investigative reporter Bob Drogin’s forthcoming CURVEBALL. John Wells will produce THE ATTACK, which features an Arab surgeon who loses his wife in a suicide bombing. Drogin’s book expands on reporting about US intelligence before the war in Iraq, taking its title from […]

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Lunch for Monday, February 13

February 13, 2006
By Michael Cader

Sheinkman to Curtis Brown UK Follow the recent departures of agents Peter Robinson and Ali Gunn, Curtis Brown UK has completed their wooing of agent Elizabeth Sheinkman, who will join the agency as senior agent and director of the Book Board on March 6. Sheinkman, who has been based in London since 2004, will continue to sell UK rights for her former employer, the Elaine Markson Agency. She will also continue to represent her authors directly in the US and expects to keep building her list of UK authors. In other personnel news, at Lowenstein-Yost Associates Zoe Fishman has been […]

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Lunch Weekly for February 13

February 12, 2006
By Michael Cader

Monday, February 13 Our Usual Reminder If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. Click to register http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.shtml 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 […]

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