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Meet the Editor: Lindsay Sagnette
Lindsay Sagnette edited both the mega-hit "Gone Girl" and the critical darling "A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon." So what's next for the editor with the golden touch?
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Publishing Projects Find Success on Kickstarter
More than 6,000 publishing campaigns were launched on Kickstarter in 2013, including over 1,600 works of fiction and nearly 1,000 children’s book projects.
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Ex-Bunting Head to Self-Pub Second Novel
Florence Ladd returned an advance and decided to go it alone for her second novel, "The Spirit of Josephine: A Family Reunion in Paris."
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HBG Expanding in Indiana, Moving in NYC
The Hachette Book Group will be making a couple of big real estate moves this year as it expands its distribution center in Indiana and relocates its New York City headquarters.
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Chicago Review Press Acquires Academy Chicago
Academy Chicago Publishers will become an imprint of Chicago Review Press and will expand its publishing program to 15-20 titles per year.
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Skyhorse Launches New Imprint, Yucca
Skyhorse Publishing has unveiled a new imprint, Yucca Publishing, that is being done through a partnership with the literary agency, International Transactions.
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WestBow Press Expands
Self-publishing alliance WestBow will now support Zondervan publishing, as it currently does Thomas Nelson.
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Good Enterprises Wants S&S to Keep Selling its Books
Christine Shubert, the trustee overseeing the Chapter 7 proceedings of Good Enterprises, has asked the bankruptcy court to give Good Books’ distributor, Simon & Schuster, the authority to continue to sell the company’s titles.
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News Briefs: Week of January 6, 2014
Authors Guild Appeals Google Decision and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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HarperCollins by the Numbers
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The Bestselling Books of 2013
Hard Luck, the eighth book in Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series, was the bestselling book across all print formats in 2013, selling over 1.8 million hardcover copies
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Kensington Buys Digital Pub, Lyrical Press
Kensington Publishing has acquired the e-book house, Lyrical Press. Lyrical, which was founded in 2007, and specializes in contemporary, paranormal and erotic romance; thrillers; and science fiction.
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Byliner Publishes New Leonard Stories
The two stories were written in 1958 while the late writer was working at a Detroit-based advertising agency.
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Controversy Doesn't Slow 'Happy' Sales
Sales of the Duck Dynasty star's book, Happy, Happy, Happy, saw an 86% increase between the weeks ended December 15 and December 22.
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Lion Stone: Artisanal Books in a Digital Age
A publisher continues to hand-bind and hand-sew books that also function as works of art.
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Morgan James and CML Entertainment Launch New Imprint
Morgan James Publishing partners with CML Entertainment to launch a new series imprint with nine titles planned for fall 2014.
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News Briefs: Week of December 23, 2013
Whiteman Leaving PRH and more in this week's publishing news briefs.
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Hot for the Holidays
The Rainbow Loom—a loom for weaving jewelry and other objects out of colorful rubber bands that has become one of the hottest toys this holiday season—has been a boon to children’s publishers that got ahead of the trend.
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Chris Knopf to Become Permanent Press Partner
Since Martin Shepard and his wife Judy started the Permanent Press 35 years ago, the two have built a publishing house with a backlist of around 450 titles, including works by about 50 award-winning authors.
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New Canadian University Press Grabs Spotlight
It’s not every day that a book from a scholarly press inspires a song and gets its own music video, but that’s what the first book released by the University of Regina Press in Saskatchewan, Canada, has done this fall.