Coates joins RCW as foreign rights manager

Sam Coates is to join literary agency Rogers, Coleridge and White as foreign rights manager, working alongside department head Laurence Laluyaux. Coates joins on 22nd October, having worked at Penguin Random House for five years, most recently at Vintage. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Flatt joins Bookseller's FutureBook

Tech and culture journalist Molly Flatt will join The Bookseller as associate editor of FutureBook. She succeeds Porter Anderson, who has moved to Publishing Perspectives as editor in chief. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Porter Anderson Joins Publishing Perspectives as Editor-in-Chief

Most recently associate editor of FutureBook, Porter Anderson will join international publishing trade magazine Publishing Perspectives as editor-in-chief. The post Porter Anderson Joins Publishing Perspectives as Editor-in-Chief appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2016-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Lauren Groff Among 2015 NBCC Finalists

Thirty finalists including 'Between the World and Me' author Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of 'Fates and Furies' Lauren Groff, and 'SPQR: A History of Rome' author Mary Beard are among those up for NBCC Awards. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson joins David Fickling Books as publishing director

David Fickling Books has hired Bella Pearson to the newly created role of publishing director, beginning 11th April. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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WPW to Manage Quarto’s Remainder Biz

Newly formed World Pub Wholesale has partnered with Quarto Publishing Group USA to become the exclusive sales force for Quarto's remainders, overstock, and hurts (damaged books). Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dinosaur Roar rights to MCB

Macmillan Children’s Books has acquired the global publishing rights to Dinosaur Roar! from entertainment company Nurture Rights. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Authors lead support for My Library By Right campaign

Authors Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman and Joanna Trollope have led a wave of “tremendous support” for CILIP’s legal fight for libraries as its campaign petition tops 7,000 signatures. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former ABC managing director Brian Johns dies aged 79

Johns – also an adviser to Gough Whitlam and to Malcolm Fraser, political correspondent and head of Penguin books – remembered as a cultural leaderFormer ABC managing director Brian Johns has died of cancer aged 79.The outgoing managing director, Mark Scott, paid tribute to his predecessor,... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Krafft appointed to Bertelsmann’s group management committee

Bertelsmann Education Group c.e.o., Kay Krafft, has been appointed to the Bertelsmann’s Group Management Committee (GMC), effective as of 1st January. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mark Tavani Joins Putnam as Exec Editor

Tavani will join Putnam on February 8, after 15 years with Ballantine Bantam Dell. At BBD he worked with such authors as Justin Cronin and Steve Berry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Olivia Williams joins Booker judges

Actress Olivia Williams will be one of the five judges of the 2016 Man Booker Prize for fiction, the UK's leading book award. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2015-12-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Top Right to rebrand Emap as Plexus

Owner of magazines including Construction News to ‘retire’ 70-year-old brand as it hires chief financial officer from the Economist GroupEmap’s owner is to scrap the brand and make the business part of a new company, called Plexus, in a restructure that includes hiring a financial chief from the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Accent sells US rights to The Chronicles for 'substantial sum'

Accent Press has sold North American print rights for sci-fi and fantasy series The Chronicles of St Mary’s by Jodi Taylor to Skyhorse Publishing Inc. for a "substantial sum". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Question Everything, Manage Your Ego, and ‘Break the Norms’ of Religion: PW Talks to Chandresh Bhardwaj

Author and spiritual guru Chandresh Bhardwaj urges readers to unlearn everything they have learned about spirituality for a stronger connection to God in his new book. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-12-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Merrington hired as Peter Rabbit brand manager

Penguin Random House Children’s has hired Thomas Merrington, formerly of Silvergate Media, to the newly created role of Peter Rabbit brand manager and head of product development for the Penguin Ventures portfolio. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Herdman joins Hodder from Curtis Brown

Hodder & Stoughton is strengthening its fiction department by appointing Curtis Brown's Emma Herdman and promoting two people. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-12-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ta-Nehisi Coates packed the house at Davidson College talking on race

Coates – journalist, commentator, and National Book Award-winner – is seen by many as the voice of his generation on black America. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2015-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Neill Denny joins Bookbrunch

Neill Denny, former editor-in-chief of The Bookseller, is joining BookBrunch, where he will work alongside editor Nicholas Clee. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sonia Braga joins the cast of Marvel's 'Luke Cage'

With "Marvel's Jessica Jones" receiving rave reviews, the comic book company's next Netflix show, "Marvel's Luke Cage," steps up with the casting of a major actress, Sonia Braga, in the role of Soledad Temple, the mother of Rosario Dawson's character Claire. Dawson's Claire is slated to have an... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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