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Dickerman Joins Grand Central Publishing
Colin Dickerman, former v-p and executive editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has been named v-p and editorial director for nonfiction at Grand Central Publishing, effective January 19, 2021.
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Zando Finds Its Head of Editorial in FSG's Emily Bell
FSG's Emily Bell will join Zando, the new independent publishing venture launched in October by Molly Stern, as head of editorial, effective January 4.
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Meet the Editor: Rakia Clark
After joining Houghton Mifflin Harcourt last year, Rakia Clark is building a list of authors who take on big ideas about race, gender, class, and feminism.
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Oprah's Interview with Obama Airs on Publication Day
Oprah Winfrey's interview with Barack Obama premieres on Apple TV+ on Tuesday morning, just as copies of the hotly anticipated former president's memoir lands on bookstore shelves around the world.
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BookScan: Patterson Was Decade’s Bestselling Author
From 2010 to 2019, James Patterson sold 84 million units across print and e-book formats, making him the past decade’s bestselling author at outlets that report to NPD BookScan.
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Alison Rich Takes Reins on PRH's Author Brand Development
Alison Rich has been named to the newly created role of senior v-p of author development at Penguin Random House, and is charged with growing authors' platforms in ways that may be tangential to the business of marketing their books.
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Easing the Path for Black Book Designers
Since she started in publishing, Dominique Jones has been the only Black designer on her team. Enter Black and Brown Book Designers, which Jones founded this summer as a way to reach other designers who shared her isolation.
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Agent Albert Zuckerman to Retire
The legendary literary agent, whose clients included a range of bestselling authors like Michael Lewis and Stephen Hawking, is stepping down from his role at Writers House. In doing so, he is closing the book on a nearly 50-year career in publishing.
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Political Traits of Adult Book Buyers
A closer look at the political affiliations of adult book buyers.
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Children’s Book Begets Online Community for Grieving Kids
Author and entrepreneur Kristina Bingham Jones is using the release of her first children's book as an opportunity to help bereaved children cope with their losses in a new online forum.
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PW Star Watch 2020: Finalists
A closer look at the PW Star Watch finalists.
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PW Star Watch 2020: Honorees
A closer look at the PW Staw Watch Honorees
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PW Star Watch 2020: The Stars of 2020
Industry standouts are honored in Star Watch’s sixth year.
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Jamia Wilson Named Executive Editor at Random House
Wilson, previously executive director and publisher of the Feminist Press, has been named v-p and executive editor at Random House effective January 4.
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Napack Elected AAP Chairman
Brian Napack, president and CEO of John Wiley & Sons, has been elected the new chairman of the Association of American Publishers. Napack, who had been vice-chairman since the beginning of 2020, succeeds John Sargent.
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Artist Relief Distributes $13.5 Million in Pandemic Grants
The funding initiative, created to assist artists suffering under the pandemic, has distributed more than $13.5 million in emergency grants to more than 2,700 individuals since it was launched in April.
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Sargent Leaving Macmillan
Citing “disagreements regarding the direction of Macmillan,” Holtzbrinck announced this morning that John Sargent will leave as CEO of the company at the end of the year.
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HC, S&S Name Company-Wide Diversity Executives
As part of an industry-wide effort to reckon with issues of diversity in trade book publishing, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have each named new high-ranking staffers to address issues of diversity at their companies.
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Gebremedhin Joins Doubleday; Puopolo Promoted
Doubleday has announced several editorial promotions, in addition to a new executive hire.
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'PW' Announces New Nonfiction Reviews Editor, Writer-at-Large
Harmony Difo joins 'Publishers Weekly' as nonfiction reviews editor, replacing Mark Rotella, who left the magazine earlier this summer. Zoe Christen Jones has been hired in a newly created writer-at-large position, which includes a new magazine column on diversity, equity, and inclusion in the book business.
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