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  • Authors on the Air October 6, 2011: William Kennedy, Jeanne Darst, Naomi Klein

    | 10/06/2011 @ 12:00AM

    On The Leonard Lopate Show, William Kennedy will talk about his newest novel Chango's Beads and Two Tone Shoes (Viking Adult, 978-0670022977).

    Also on The Leonard Lopate Show is Jeanne Darst, talking about Fiction Ruined My Family (Riverhead, 978-1594488146).

  • Authors on the Air October 5, 2011: Mrs. Q, Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, Margaret Hawkins

    | 10/05/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Fed Up with Lunch: The School Lunch Project: How One Anonymous Teacher Survived a Year of School Lunches (Chronicle, 978-1452102283) author Mrs. Q was on Good Morning America.

    Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki will be on Fox & Friends for their book Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich -- And Why Most Don't (Plata, 978-1612680958).

  • Job Moves: October 5, 2011

    | 10/05/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Matt Weiland, currently senior editor at Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, will move to W. W. Norton & Company this autumn as senior editor in the trade department. While at Ecco, Weiland acquired and edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction including Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood and Philip Connors’ debut Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout.

  • Authors on the Air October 4, 2011: Julianne Moore, Scott Bolzan, Margaret Hawkins

    | 10/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Julianne Moore was on the Today show to discuss her third picture book Freckleface Strawberry Best Friends Forever (Bloomsbury, 9781599905518).

    Scott Bolzan, author of My Life, Deleted: A Memoir (HarperOne, 978-0062025470), appeared on Good Morning America.

  • Job Moves: October 4, 2011

    | 10/04/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Elda Rotor has been promoted to associate publisher of Penguin Classics in addition to her current title of editorial director, Penguin Classics. Rotor came from Oxford University Press in 2006.

    Stephanie Swane will assume the position of senior sales manager, becker&mayer! Books. Swane was most recently at Simon & Schuster as the manager of customer driven publishing.

  • Bookish Gets New CEO as Lemgruber Departs

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Bookish, the fledgling industry-wide digital platform for readers backed by Penguin, Hachette Book Group and Simon & Schuster, has appointed Caroline Marks CEO, replacing Paulo Lemgruber who has left the company.

  • Job Moves: October 3, 2011

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Barbara Jones will be joining Henry Holt as executive editor.

    Adam Wilson will be joining Gallery Books as editor, effective October 10th, 2011.

  • Jane Friedman Named One of 'Fortune's' Top Ten Women Entrepeneurs

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Jane Friedman, cofounder and CEO of Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, was named to Fortune Magazine’s 2011 Ten Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list. Fortune called Friedman and the other entrepreneurs “extraordinary innovators, game-changers and groundbreakers.” They are taking part in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, CA from October 3-5th.

  • Authors on the Air October 3, 2011: Charles Eisenstein, John Paul Stevens, Thomas Friedman

    | 10/03/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Charles Eisenstein will appear on Butler on Business (WAFS-AM Atlanta) for his book Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (Evolver Editions, 978-1583943977).

    Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (Little, Brown, 978-0316199803) author Justice John Paul Stevens was on Good Morning America.

  • Authors on the Air September 30, 2011: Mark Bowden, Stephane Hessel, Alton Brown, Rick Tramonto

    | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Mark Bowden, author of Worm: The First Digital World War (Atlantic Monthly Press, 978-0-8021-1983-4), will be on Fox & Friends.

    Stéphane Hessel, author of Time for Outrage: Indignez-vous! (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 978-1455509720 ) will be interviewed by Ray Suarez on PBS-TV/Newshour.

  • Job Moves: September 30, 2011

    | 09/30/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Lara Heimert has been promoted to the position of v-p, editorial and publishing director, Basic Books. Heimert joined Basic Books in 2005 and was promoted to editorial director in 2007.

  • Rinaldi Leaves Rodale

    | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Karen Rinaldi, who left Bloomsbury Press in March 2008 to head the book division at Rodale, has left the company. Rodale CEO Maria Rodale has named Stephen Perrine acting publisher.

  • Authors on the Air September 29, 2011: James Munton, Kate Beaton, Ellen E. Schultz

    | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

    James Munton, author of The Con: How Scams Work, Why You're Vulnerable, and How to Protect Yourself (Rowman Littlefield, 978-1442207318) will appear on Good Morning Texas, on WFAA-TV, Channel 8 (http://www.wfaa.com/good-morning-texas).

    Kate Beaton, author of Hark! A Vagrant (Drawn and Quarterly, 978-1770460607), was on NPR's Morning Edition.

  • Job Moves: September 29, 2011

    | 09/29/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Brad Martin has announced that Robert Wheaton, formerly of Indigo Books and Music, will join Random House of Canada overseeing the digital department in the new role of v-p, strategic digital business development.

  • Authors on the Air September 28, 2011: Ariel Dorfman, Emeril Lagasse, Bill O'Reilly

    | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Ariel Dorfman, author of Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0-547-54946-0), was on MSNBC-TV’s Morning Joe.

    Emeril Lagasse, author of Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders (William Morrow Cookbooks, 978-0061742965), was on Good Morning America.

  • Obituary: Buz Wyeth, 84

    | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Marion S. Wyeth, Jr, editor at HarperCollins, who edited Old Yeller and With Malice Toward None, among many other titles, died on September 25. He was 84.

  • F+W's Kate Rados Wins Marketer of the Year

    | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Kate Rados, group marketing director for F+W has been named Marketer of the Year by min, an industry source on the consumer and b2b magazine business. Min’s Integrated Marketing Awards salute the campaigns, ongoing programs and innovative people who’ve raised the bar on magazine marketing programs.

  • Job Moves: September 28, 2011

    | 09/28/2011 @ 12:00AM

    F+W Media has announced the promotion of Chad Phelps to chief digital officer. Since his appointment with F+W in 2008, Phelps has held a critical role in the creation and growth of the company’s emedia business which today represents more than 15% of its overall revenues.

  • Sierra New GM for National Geographic Books

    | 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

    The National Geographic Society has named Hector Sierra general manager and senior v-p of its book publishing group.

  • Authors on the Air September 27, 2011: Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Franzen, Goldie Hawn, Bill O'Reilly

    | 09/27/2011 @ 12:00AM

    Salman Rushdie will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for their book of the month: Midnight's Children (Random House, 978-0812976533).

    Also on The Leonard Lopate Show is Jonathan Franzen, talking about his latest novel Freedom (Picador, 978-0312576462).

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