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'Haywire' Gets Second Life in Print Thanks to Publicist Fan
For Russell Perreault, the re-publication of Brooke Hayward’s memoir Haywire has been more a labor of love than anything else. Perreault, v-p and director of publicity at Knopf’s paperback imprint Vintage/Anchor, fell in love with Hayward's tragic account of her privileged childhood as a a member of a dysfunctional Hollywood family, when he was in high school.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/28/2011
Borders's Creditors Committee Named and more.
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An Anniversary For Dummies
You know the iPod commercial that says "there's an app for that"? Chances are, if there's something you want to learn how to do, there's a Dummies book for that. With some 1,800 titles in print, there are guides to 529s and other college savings plans, auto repair, budget weddings, building chicken coops, and even self-publishing.
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Seven Stories Gets Stieg Larsson's Personal and Political Back Story
This summer Seven Stories is counting on the continued appetite among U.S. and Canadian readers for all things Stieg Larsson and a certain tattooed hacker, when it goes out with an 80,000-copy first printing of "There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Me" (laydown: June 21) by Larsson's longtime companion, Eva Gabrielsson.
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PW's Truth in Nonfiction Panel Examines Thorny Issues of 'Truth' In Literature
In PW's first breakfast panel of the year, Truth in Nonfiction: What Is the Publisher's Responsibility?, a publisher, magazine editor, and memoirist tackled the question Tuesday morning in the Louis L'Amour Room at Random House. In her introduction to the event, moderator and PW senior reviews editor Sarah Gold cited three recent and varied examples of books that had thrust their publishers into controversy--a lost historical document, a memoir, and a work of journalistic reporting--and asked her panelists how publishers can deal with checking facts, and their authors.
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Small Press The Spirit That Moves Us Closes
Morty Sklar, publisher of the small press The Spirit That Moves Us, is closing his business. The press, which produces both books and a magazine, has been a one-man operation run by Sklar, who is based in Jackson Heights, N.Y., for the past 35 years. Sklar learned the publishing business while working with Alan Kornblum in Iowa in the 1970s at Toothpaste Press. (Kornblum now runs the indie Coffee House Press.)
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Abrams Strikes Deal with Topps
Topps, best known for its trading cards featuring players from Major League Baseball, has inked a pact with Abrams that gives the publisher the exclusive right to create books based on the company's various sports and pop culture brands. The agreement is a multi-year deal and is intended to lead to both fiction and nonfiction titles from across all of the publisher's imprints, from Abrams ComicArts to Abrams Books for Young Readers.
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RH Offers Early Retirement Package
In a memo sent out this morning to its employees, Random House outlined an early retirement package now available to staffers 50 and over, which features enhanced benefits. The package, which is open to U.S. employees who have been at the publisher for at least five years, is being offered for only 45 days.
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IPG Re-Brands Professional/Academic List
Independent Publishers Group announced Monday that it is re-branding its professional and academic book distribution program to more effectively appeal to a wider audience beyond the academic market. IPG’s River North Editions will launch in March.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/21/11
S&S 2010 Earnings Rise and More
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Borders Pulls the Trigger on Chapter 11
After a drawn out process that began at the end of last year when it missed payments to top publishers, Borders Group has given in to the inevitable and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Penguin Signs With NetGalley
Penguin has signed with NetGalley. Starting this winter, Penguin Group (USA) will deliver galleys and other promotional materials, in full-color, digitally through the service. Select titles will be available through NetGalley, viewable on a host of eReaders. Penguin will now be the third publisher among the "big six" to sign with NetGalley, after HarperCollins and Hachette inked agreements to use the service.
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Bison Books Rumbles Ahead
The University of Nebraska Press is not just celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, it's also marking the 50th anniversary of its groundbreaking paperback imprint, Bison Books.
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Esther Reid Rejoins 'PW'
Esther Reid is rejoining Publishers Weekly as marketing manager. Reid worked at PW under the previous ownership of Reed Business Information, and most recently she was an executive assistant at the investment bank the Jordan Edmiston Group.
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Hot Topic: The Allure of The Cheeky Blog
Everyday people would chronicle their lives—or personal experiments like cooking your entire way through a Julia Child cookbook—get a following, then land a book deal. But now successful blogs don't need to tell a story, especially if they strike the funny bone.
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News Briefs: Week of 2/14/11
Powell's Lays Off 31 and More.
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Tor Launches Author-Hosted Twitter Feed
Macmillan’s science fiction imprint, Tor Books (@TorBooks), is launching a Twitter feed featuring a number of its marquee authors. The feed, #Torchat, will host hour-long discussions on the social networking site, about various SF topics, from 4-5 p.m. EST on the third Wednesday of every month. Tor authors currently lined up to host the chats include Greg Bear, Steven Gould, and M.J. Locke.
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S&S to Launch Emily Bestler Books Imprint at Atria
Emily Bestler, formerly Atria Books executive editorial director, has been promoted to editor-in-chief and senior v-p of Emily Bestler Books, a new Atria Books imprint that will launch in spring 2011. Emily Bestler Books will publish a list featuring both fiction and nonfiction.
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Amid Changes, B&H Discontinues Oliver North's Fidelis Imprint
B&H Publishing Group, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, which produces Bibles, as well as reference, trade, and academic books, is discontinuing its Fidelis imprint. The imprint launched in 2009 and was led by retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, now an author and Fox News Channel host.
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