Jo Lal joins Watkins

Jo Lal is to join Watkins Publishing Limited, as publisher, Watkins.   Lal will step into... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Headline's Grace Paul joins Trapeze

Grace Paul is joining Trapeze as senior commissioning editor for non-fiction. Reporting to publisher Anna Valentine, she takes up her position on 29th October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McLaughlin joins Collins for secret agent picture book

Hachette Children’s Group imprint Orchard Books will next year publish a picture book about a secret agent elephant by author Eoin McLaughlin and illustrator Ross Collins. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New direction for 'literary chameleon' Jo Baker to Transworld

Transworld has acquired a new, contemporary novel by Jo Baker, author of Longbourn and A Country Road, A Tree, about a female creative writing school tutor whose relationship with an intense student goes badly wrong. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Scholastic joins with illustrators to support refugees

Scholastic imprint Alison Green Books will next year publish a children’s book featuring artwork from 39 illustrators to support Three Peas, a charity that helps refugees. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones' Annett joins MILD Group

Peter Annett, events co-ordinator and lead fiction bookseller at Waterstones Richmond, is to join the MILD Group as events manager for Live Lit. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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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Sphere joins with blogger Wallace on parenting novel

Sphere has partnered with blogger Kathryn Wallace to create a comic novel about parenting, working and school gate politics “for anyone who has ever shared a #fml moment on Facebook”. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Stars of stage and screen join Comma Press’s refugee campaign

Actors Jeremy Irons, Maxine Peake, Zoë Wanamaker and Christopher Eccleston have joined a campaign, organised by Comma Press, calling for an end to the British policy of immigration detention. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Wood joins RCW as agent

Outgoing Orion group publisher Jon Wood is joining Rogers, Coleridge and White as an agent in January. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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David Rosenthal to Join HMH as Editor-at-Large

David Rosenthal, whose Blue Rider Press imprint was shuttered last year by Penguin Random House, is joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has been tapped as an editor-at-large at HMH. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury's Rebecca Smart joins DK

Ebury m.d. Rebecca Smart is to join DK in the newly created role of managing director, publishing. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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iBooks Bestsellers: Lee Child Joins Jenny Han and Kevin Kwan In Top Ten

Lee Child’s 2011 Jack Reacher novel 'The Affair' jumped to #1 over Jenny Han’s 'To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before' (now at #2) following recent news that the series will be rebooted for a new TV series. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malorie Blackman joins Doctor Who TV writing team

Children’s author Malorie Blackman is one of the writers working on the new television series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jo Brand to release 'guide to being female'

John Murray Press has signed a part memoir, part advice manual from comedian Jo Brand to publish this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Eight Northern Fiction Alliance publishers join the PA

Eight members of publishing collective the Northern Fiction Alliance have joined the Publishers Association for the first time. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Williamson joins Transworld

Sally Williamson, formerly of HarperCollins, is joining Transworld as senior commissioning editor. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ferey joins Johnson & Alcock as head of Foreign Rights

Johnson & Alcock has hired a head of foreign rights, Hélène Ferey, who joins from A M Heath in September. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Industry Notes: Cygan Joins Frankfurter Buchmesse; Fassler Goes to Atria

In Germany, Matthäus Cygan moves from digital direction at Random to business development at Frankfurter Buchmesse, and in the States, Kristin Fassler moves from Ballantine to Atria in marketing. The post Industry Notes: Cygan Joins Frankfurter Buchmesse; Fassler Goes to Atria appeared first on... Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2018-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Watkins gives indies early release date for foraging title

Watkins Media is launching a campaign for independent bookshops for its upcoming title Foraging With Kids by Adele Nozedar. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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