Revolving Door Rebecca Saletan Moves To Riverhead By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2009 - 11:23 AM Rebecca Saletan has been hired as editorial director of Riverhead Books, one month after she resigned from her post at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. When Saletan resigned as adult trade publisher at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Decem ...
Revolving Door Three More Editors Laid Off at Publishers Weekly By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2009 - 10:23 AM This morning more news of layoffs at Publishers Weekly surfaced. Along with Editor-in-chief Sara Nelson, the parent company also cut Executive Editor Daisy Maryles, Children’s Reviews Editor Elizabeth Devereaux, and Booksell ...
Book Biz Criticas Magazine To Close By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2009 - 9:23 AM Along with yesterday’s news about layoffs at Publishers Weekly, the trade publication’s parent company has made another cut–shuttering the eight-year-old magazine, Criticas. The bi-monthly magazine focused on the ...
Book Biz Molly Ringwald Signs Book Deal By Jason Boog on Jan. 27, 2009 - 8:23 AM 1980s movie star Molly Ringwald scored a book deal with HarperCollins with a March 2009 deadline. Bucking the trend of celebrity memoirs, the star of Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club is writing a novel about living as a 40-ye ...
Book Biz Paparazzi Shot Duplicated on Covers By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 4:23 PM Two books about navigating the grueling world of celebrity worship ended up with the same cover. The book covers for Mark Ebner’s new book Six Degrees of Paris Hilton (Simon Spotlight) and Howard Bragman’s Where’ ...
Awards Neil Gaiman Wins Newbery Medal By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 2:23 PM Today the American Library Association announced the winners of their prestigious 2009 Youth Media Awards. Novelist and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman won the John Newbery Medal for his tome, The Graveyard Book, which was illustrate ...
Book Biz Sara Nelson Laid Off at Publishers Weekly By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 1:03 PM After four years at the helm of Publishers Weekly, industry insider Sara Nelson was released from her editor spot in a round of cuts at Reed Business Information. The restructuring will affect 7 percent of Publishers Weekly‘ ...
Digital Twin Peaks Episodes Online, But Not the Books By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 12:23 PM The literary Twitter-sphere was buzzing this morning about CBS’ web video versions of Twin Peaks. Just like The Prisoner television show, fans can now watch these intricate episodes at home. While surfing through the Twin Pe ...
Authors Self-Promotion in the Publishing Recession By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 11:23 AM Over the weekend, second-time novelist Paul Malmont cracked San Francisco’s bestseller list, despite the fact that the recession has choked publicity and marketing budgets around the country. GalleyCat asked Malmont how he p ...
Publishing Author Allows Book Pirates To Use Her Work By Jason Boog on Jan. 26, 2009 - 10:23 AM Recently Suprina Frazier discovered a copy of her book illegally uploaded to the social networking and reading website, Scribd.com. Instead of lawsuits, she decided to allow the pirate to keep posting her work. Frazier realized th ...