Agent Peta Nightingale joins Bookouture

Bookouture has hired Lucas Alexander Whitley agent Peta Nightingale to the newly-created role of head of talent. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former agent's 'dark' debut wins RNA new writer award

Former literary agent Hannah Begbie has won The Romantic Novelists' Association's (RNA) Joan Hessayon Award for new writers for her novel Mother (HarperCollins). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spanton joins Elliott & Thompson

Elliott & Thompson has appointed former Unbound editor Simon Spanton as editor-at-large. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zoe King joins A M Heath

Agent Zoe King is leaving The Blair Partnership after seven years to join A M Heath.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the Abu Dhabi Book Fair: An Industry Ready for Editorial Rigor and Literary Agents

At the 2018 Abu Dhabi Book Fair, Flora Rees of the Emirates Literature Foundation talks about the editor-author relationship and the role of literary agents in publishing across the Arab world. The post At the Abu Dhabi Book Fair: An Industry Ready for Editorial Rigor and Literary Agents... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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T&F and CUP join Springer Nature blockchain pilot

Academic houses Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press have joined a pilot project on using blockchain technology for peer review, announced by publisher Springer Nature and start-up Katalysis last month.  Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Kerr and Philip Pullman join IBW celebrations

Independent Bookshop Week (IBW) will feature the 50th anniversary of The Tiger Who Came to Tea as well as Philip Pullman exclusives and a nationwide poet tour from Carol Ann Duffy. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Artists Partnership to represent Bookouture authors

Bookouture has appointed The Artists Partnership to represent its authors for film, stage and TV. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Conde Nast's Scott-Bayfield to join Bloomsbury board

Penny Scott-Bayfield, current finance director of Conde Nast, will be joining the Bloomsbury board as group finance director. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Offord joins HarperCollins Children’s Books

HarperCollins Children’s Books has appointed Elisa Offord as interim marketing director, covering Alex King's maternity leave. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With tell-all, Comey joins club of ex-officials turned scribes

Former FBI Director James Comey's memoir, out Tuesday, joins a long list of juicy tomes by Washington power players. Beyond settling scores, the best can offer real insight into the inner workings of government. Here are some classics of the genre. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2018-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Agent Toby Eady remembered at pre-LBF memorial

Friends, family and clients gathered at the Royal Over-Seas League in St James’s yesterday to pay tribute to agent Toby Eady, who died on 24th December aged 76. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tahsin and Chang join The Good Literary Agency

The Good Literary Agency has made two new hires, Nicola Chang, of Aitken Alexander Associates and Arzu Tahsin, former publishing director of Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Reichelt and Kaube join Clarivate after Kopernio buyout

Clarivate analytics has acquired AI start-up Kopernio for an undisclosed sum, with the latter’s co-founders Jan Reichelt and Ben Kaube to join the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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DK to join PRH at One Embassy Gardens

DK is moving with its sister company Penguin Random House UK from 80 Strand to One Embassy Gardens in the Nine Elms development. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Headline wins debut of 26-year-old talent agent Beirne

Headline has acquired the debut novel of 26-year-old talent agent Lucy Beirne, The List That Changed My Life, at auction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-04-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alex Spears joins the Indigo Press

The MILD Group has appointed Alexander Spears as sales and marketing manager at The Indigo Press, the new publishing house that launched in October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Curr joins HarperCollins US

Judith Curr, formerly president and publisher of Simon & Schuster's Atria Publishing Group, is joining HarperCollins as president and publisher of HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alanna rebrands for Max impact as co-publisher joins

UK-based independent publisher Alanna Books has rebranded as Alanna Max as a result of Ken Wilson-Max joining the company in the role of co-publisher. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judith Curr to Join HarperCollins

Former Atria Publishing Group head Judith Curr has been named president and publisher of HarperCollins's HarperOne, Amistad, and Rayo units. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More men join the RNA as genre overcomes 'snobbery'

More men are joining the Romantic Novelists' Association and writing romantic fiction under their own names as the genre overcomes a "lurking literary snobbery", RNA chair Nicola Cornick has said, after two men won prizes in its flagship awards for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-03-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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