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Authors on the Air February 14, 2012: Edward St. Aubyn, William J. Broad, Karen Gravano
Edward St. Aubyn, author of the novel At Last (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-0374298890), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
William J. Broad, author of The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451641424), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Obituary: Jeffrey Zaslow
Wall Street Journal writer and author Jeffrey Zaslow died February 10 from injuries he sustained in a car accident. He was 53.
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Authors on the Air February 13, 2012: Eowyn Ivey, Jill Salzman, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg
Eowyn Ivey author of The Snow Child (Reagan Arthur Books, 978-0316175678) will be a guest on "Write The Book" with Shelagh Shapiro. WOMM-LP Burlington, Vermont, at 2 p.m.
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Job Moves: February 10, 2012
Amazon has appointed Jamie S. Gorelick as a director.
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Authors on the Air February 10, 2012: Suze Orman, William Broad, Jim Baumer, Tonya Reiman
Suze Orman, author of The Money Class: How to Stand in Your Truth and Create the Future You Deserve (Spiegel & Grau, 978-0812982138), will be on Tavis Smiley.
William Broad, author of The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451641424), will be on NPR's Science Friday.
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BISG Add Four New Board Members
BISG has appointed four new board members: Mark Bide, Kyusik Chung, Dan Cullen, and Sharon Lubrano.
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Authors on the Air February 9, 2012: Kate Shaffer, Joseph Marshall III, Karen Gravano
Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier (Down East Books, 978-0892729913) author Kate Shaffer will be the guest on MPBN’s new call-in radio show “Maine Calling” from 12:15-1pm, with host Keith Shortall. Listen live or hear the archive at Maine Calling.
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Obituary: John T. Sargent, Sr.
John Turner Sargent, Sr. , who helped Nelson Doubleday Jr. turn Doubleday & Co. into one of the most powerful publishing entities of its time, died February 5. He was 87 years old.
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MIBA Lays Off Assistant Director
Citing a struggling economy, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association announced yesterday that assistant director Kati Gallagher has been laid off.
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Authors on the Air February 7, 2012: Eric Klinenberg, Wael Ghonim, Margot Livesey
Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Penguin Press, 978-1594203220), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: February 7, 2012
Mark Weinstein has been hired as executive editor at Rodale. Previously, Weinstein served as senior editor at Skyhorse Publishing.
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Authors on the Air February 6, 2012: Kareem Adbul-Jabbar, Krys Lee, Robert Harris
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be on The View on February 7 for his children's book What Color is My World: The Lost History of African American Inventors (Candlewick Press, 9780763645649).
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Job Moves: February 6, 2012
Wyatt Mason has been named consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters, Yale University Press's series of literature in translation.
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Job Moves: February 3, 2012
Angela Tribelli has been appointed to the newly created position of chief marketing officer, general books group for HarperCollins. She was previously with NYC & Company, where she served as senior v-p, digital.
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Comings and Goings: February 3, 2012
Kristina Holmes is leaving her position as an agent at Ebeling & Associates Literary Agency after six years to move forward with her new agency, The Holmes Agency.
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Job Moves: February 2, 2012
Juliette van Wersch has been promoted to associate publisher of A.W. Bruna Fiction. She joined the company in 2006 as commissioning editor.
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Authors on the Air February 1, 2012: Michael Hastings, Adam Johnson, Baratunde Thurston
Michael Hastings will be on Tavis Smiley for his book The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan (Blue Rider Press, 978-0399159886).
Adam Johnson will talk about his new novel The Orphan Master's Son (Random House, 978-0812992793) on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: February 1, 2012
Jim Johnston, Mariella Molloy, and Bill Sinnott have all been named to senior v-p positions at Random House.
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Obituary: Sam Vaughan
Sam Vaughan, former president, publisher, and editor-in-chief of Doubleday, and later editor and senior v-p at Random House, died January 30 at age 83.
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