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Ratzlaff Founds Supreme Social Media
Former Rodale Books v-p Cindy Ratzlaff has started a new e-book and video publishing company, Supreme Social Media. The start-up, which Ratzlaff bills as “an online publishing and training company,” publishes e-books and downloadable videos. Its first release is a four book, 34-video series called FUNdamentals of Social Media, which includes lessons for beginners on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and SEO. It retails for $247 at the company's Web site.
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CIROBE Cofounder, Marshall Smith, Dies
Marshall Smith passed away on November 10 in Franklin, Ind., while returning from last weekend’s CIROBE (Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Exposition) to his bookstore, Key West Island Books.
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WEbook Launches AgentInBox to Connect Authors and Agents Online
WEbook has launched AgentInbox, a service that hopes to link submission-ready manuscripts to appropriate agents.
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Engstrom Named CEO of Reed Elsevier
The one-time Random House executive Erik Engstrom was named CEO of the professional publisher. In an update on business trends, Reed said the sale of its U.S. controlled circulation magazines and certain other magazines (including PW) "is in progress."
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James Tabbed to Run Harlequin’s E-book-only Carina Press
In a move that signifies the importance of women readers and the romance genre in driving e-book sales, romance publisher Harlequin is launching Carina Press, a digital-only publishing venture that will be run separately from Harlequin’s conventional publishing program.
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Halloween 2009: A Photo-Essay
In what has become a holiday tradition, several children's book publishers celebrated Halloween this past week in high style, and with some inventive book-inspired costumes. Here, we present party highlights—both spooky and silly—in a holiday tradition of our own: the post-Halloween photo-essay.
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Obituary: Esther Hautzig
Author Esther Hautzig died on Sunday, November 1, at the age of 79. She was best known for her 1968 work, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, an autobiographical account of her family’s life in Siberia during WWII, having being exiled there from Poland. She wrote several other books for children over a career that spanned five decades...
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Weiss to St. Martin's
Veteran publishing exec Dan Weiss has a new job as publisher at large at St. Martin’s, reporting to Matthew Shear, who is senior v-p and publisher of the house’s paperback and consumer reference groups. Weiss will work on developing content for Gen Y readers—“emerging adults who are navigating career, love and family in a 24/7 connected world,” explained Shear.
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McIntosh Named to New Spot at Random House
Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle.
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Dyssegaard Joins Hyperion
Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join Hyperion November 16 as editor-in chief, replacing Will Balliett, who left earlier this fall to head Thames and Hudson.
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Mazer’s Legacy Honored; Memorial Date Set
Family, friends, and colleagues are honoring in their own ways Norma Fox Mazer, who died of cancer on October 17. Remembrances of Mazer include a memorial scheduled for next weekend and the establishment of a scholarship fund by her family, to which several of her former students and other writers are pledging the royalties from a recent anthology. The memorial service will be held on November 7 at 2 p.m in the Vermont College of Fine Arts chapel...
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Lorena Jones New Publishing Director at Chronicle
Chronicle Books announced yesterday that former Ten Speed Press publisher Lorena Jones has taken over as publishing director. In her new role, Jones will initiate a digital food and drink publishing program, and oversee Chronicle’s food and drink list as a whole.
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Cronin Moving to RH's Sub Rights Department
Denise Cronin has been named v-p of subsidiary rights for the Random House Publishing Group, filling a position that has been open since Rebecca Gardner left in late September to be rights director at the Gernert Company.
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Goldklang to Globe Pequot Press
Janice Goldklang, the former publisher of Knopf’s Pantheon Books imprint, landed at Globe Pequot Press today after leaving Random House Inc. as part of a restructuring earlier this year.
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Frank McCourt Remembered and Honored
“An Evening of Reminiscence, Music, Poetry and Laughter” was promised for the memorial to Frank McCourt held at Symphony Space on Tuesday night, and it was amply delivered.
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Also in the Frankfurt Briefcase
[In last week’s “Frankfurt Briefcase 2009,” the titles listed under the Sandra Dijkstra Agency are in fact being shopped by the Taryn Fagerness Agency. The titles being shopped by the Dijkstra Agency are below. For our full listing of Frankfurt titles, go to publishersweekly.com/FrankfurtBriefcase2009.
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Deborah Fine Succeeds Goldfarb at Direct Brands
Deborah Fine has been named president and CEO of Direct Brands, succeeding Stuart Goldfarb who had been leading the direct marketer since it was formed in July 2008 when Najafi Companies bought Bookspan and Columbia House from Bertelsmann.
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Romance Editor Kate Duffy Dead at 56
Renowned romance editor Kate Duffy died Sunday at age 56, following a long illness. Duffy was well-known in the industry for her contributions to the romance genre, from the late 1970s and the “romance revolution” of the early ’80s through the present day. Duffy published and worked with Jude Deveraux, Julie Garwood, Lori Foster, Heather Graham, Judith McNaught, Mary Janice Davidson, Jacqueline Frank and Mary Jo Putney.
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Obituaries: Milton Meltzer and Bernie Fuchs
Historian Milton Meltzer, author of more than 110 books for young people, and a five-time finalist for the National Book Award, died on September 19 after a battle with cancer. Illustrator Bernie Fuchs, who worked for many years as an editorial illustrator before turning his talents to children's books, died of cancer on September 17...
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PW talks with Monika Krauss
"The lack of proper distribution channels and book information is critical. Sometimes, even Arab publishers themselves have no information about or access to books published in countries other than their own."
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