I am happy to announce that Katia Raina sold her Historical Young Adult novel titled, Castle of Concrete?to namelos -?pub. date TBA.? This was the first book she wrote and is her debut novel. I remember reading this manuscript at one of our New Jersey Writing Retreats.? It is?set in the collapsing Soviet Union and is about a shy Jewish teen who falls for a boy whose political convictions make her question her own identity.? I am sure you will all join me with congratulating Katia.? Just goes to show?if you don?t give up and you work hard, it will happen!? Wishing Katia more published books to come.
Harper Announces Paperback Mystery Line, Bourbon Street
Harper Collins will launch Bourbon Street Books to publish ?all types of mysteries,? featuring paperback originals, reprints, backlist titles, and reissued classics. The line starts with fall with two paperback originals: British author Oliver Harris?s debut THE HOLLOW MAN and Lynda La Plante?s seventh book in the Anna Travis series, BLOOD LINE, both publishing on October 23. Also in October they will bring back into print Dorothy L. Sayers? Lord Peter Wimsey with Harriet Vane series and in winter they will reissue four Mary Kay Andrews novels ? Happy Never After, Homemade Sin, To Live and Die in Dixie, Every Crooked Nanny ? all originally written and published under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck.
As part of the Harper Paperbacks imprint (it has a logo and a list, but it?s not an imprint?just a ?line?), Bourbon Street will draw resources from the Perennial staff and any Harper Collins editor will be able to acquire for the line. It falls under the direction of Jonathan Burnham and Cal Morgan.
Former Harper UK executive John Bond and former Harper Press senior editor Annabel Wright have formed Whitefox Publishing Services. They ?deliver bespoke, cost-effective and flexible creative excellence to help publishers, agents and writers to solve every publishing challenge.?
Eric Winbolt has been promoted to the newly created role of digital creative director at Harper UK, reporting to group publisher Belinda Budge.
Alice Rahaeuser has joined Random House Children?s as production associate, reporting to Timothy Terhune. Most recently she worked at Neuwirth and Associates, managing book production for customers including Tor, The Experiment and Pegasus Books.
At Harlequin, Emily Rodmell has been promoted to editor at the Love Inspired imprint.
Annie Stone has joined Harlequin Teen as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Harper.
Laura Hopper has joined Hyperion as editorial director of franchise publishing, based on the West Coast, focusing on identifying, developing, and editing new print and digital projects within the Disney/ABC Television Group for Hyperion. Hopper was vp of the motion picture department for Brillstein-Grey Entertainment, and most recently she represented writer and director clients on various film and television projects.
Victoria Comella has joined HarperCollins 360 as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at Putnam.
Jeanette Shaw has been promoted to editor at Perigee Books/Prentice Hall Press.
Cengage?s Gale has sold Sleeping Bear Press to Minnesota-based Cherry Lake Publishing. Sleeping Bear and their staff of 10 will remain in their Ann Arbor, MI offices.
Graphic Arts Books has acquired the trade titles and publishing rights of Pruett Publishing Company in order to build and expand its imprint, WestWinds Press. Pruett, based in Boulder, CO, was founded in 1954 and , specializes in western regional publishing.
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