HarperCollins Children’s Books has hired Nia Roberts as art director, where she will be responsible for the cross portfolio design strategy. She will also develop the picture book list. Roberts is currently art director at Simon & Schuster where she has worked with authors and illustrators such as Benji Davies, Sue Hendra, Sara Ogilvie and Ben Cort. She will start her new role in April and will report operationally to Rachel Denwood, publishing and creative director, and strategically to executive publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author and illustrator is much revered for his own weird and wonderful books, yet his 200-plus jacket designs are virtually ignored. Steven Heller celebrates his contribution to a unique era of publishingDeliciously and subversively cryptic, Edward St John Gorey’s books, plays, postcards,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
HarperCollins Children’s Books will publish The Person Controller, the second children’s book from author and comedian David Baddiel. Illustrated by Jim Field, the book is about Fred and Ellie - twins who end up inside a video game, and will be published this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Profile’s publishing director Mike Jones is to leave the company at the end of this week, by mutual consent. Jones joined Profile from his role as non-fiction publishing director at Simon & Schuster almost exactly a year ago in July 2014. The publisher said it was “very sorry” to make the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Simon & Schuster has bought a "unique" debut from an Australian author. S&S ssistant fiction editor Carla Josephson bought UK, Commonwealth & ANZ rights in All These Perfect Strangers by Australian prize-winning author Aoife Clifford from Rebecca Ritchie and Clare Forster at Curtis... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Simon & Schuster was founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Sarah Knight was sick of commuting, P&L statements and eating salad at her desk at Simon & Schuster, so she quit to freelance and seek happiness. The post Sick of P&L Statements, Literary Editor Quits, Gets Web Kudos appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Quarto Publishing Group UK has made a series of appointments to its sales team, as part of a restructure. John Stefani, previously business development director at Simon & Schuster will take on the role of sales director, while Geraldine McBride, previously trade sales director at Bonnier... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Former Penguin communications manager Toby Jones has been hired as group marketing and publicity director by Simon & Schuster. Jones, who left Penguin in 2013 to go travelling, will begin at S&S on 1st July and report to chief executive and publisher Ian Chapman. Marketing director... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Late last month, Wyatt Mitchell left The New Yorker for Apple. The question is, why?At the end of May, word quietly slipped that New Yorker creative director Wyatt Mitchell left the publication for a job at Apple. And the man taking his place will be Nicholas Blechman, former art director at The... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Entrepreneur Will Cookson has developed an app which sends people to independent bookshops when they browse on the Amazon website. Cookson, who describes himself as an entrepreneur and creative director, has invented Bookindy, an extension for the Google Chrome browser which, when downloaded,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Simon & Schuster has rushed through a second reprint of The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup by Heidi Blake and Jonathan Calvert after the Fifa arrests last week, which dominated news headlines around the world. The publisher ordered a 1,500 reprint of the book, only released... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Joe Monti, executive editor for Simon & Schuster’s new Saga imprint for science fiction/fantasy, or SFF, admits that diversity is more than an intellectual exercise. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
A forthcoming line of picture books from HarperCollins Children's Books invites a new generation of children and their parents to "Explore the World of Margaret Wise Brown" via new editions of some of the late author's stories. The program debuts in 2016 with the publication of two newly... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Hachette Book Group and Simon & Schuster this week became the latest Big Five publishers to offer audiobook titles to libraries via Midwest Tape’s nascent Hoopla digital platform. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Tom Doherty, president and publisher of Tor Books, worked his way up through the sales force ranks at Simon & Schuster and was mentored by Betty and Ian Ballantine when they launched the first science fiction and fantasy line in the country. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
HarperCollins has made two appointments to its team in Ireland, with Mary Byrne promoted and Ann-Marie Dolan joining the sales team. Byrne, formerly HarperCollins Children's publicity director, will now become PR director, Ireland, taking responsibility for for the publicity strategy for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Gonzales, currently director of integrated marketing at Simon & Schuster, has been been appointed v-p, associate publisher, trade books at Rodale, effective June 15. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Lawyers acting for Author Solutions are due to file new papers with a New York court this week in the latest development in the lawsuit against the assisted publisher. The Penguin Random House-owned company Author Solutions provides a variety of services direct to authors under a series of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
A fall in physical book sales led to a decrease in revenue in the first quarter of 2015 for Simon & Schuster. Results released by the publisher’s parent company CBS Corporation were not broken down geographically, but gave publishing revenues for the first three months of this year at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this
Suzanne Gibbs Taylor, associate publisher and creative director at Gibbs Smith, has been promoted to publisher and COO of the press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this