The week's second exhibit in
literary agency consolidation: In the UK, United Agents has finalized their
acquisition of venerable AP Watt, the Bookseller confirms,
after first reporting on the talks in September. Only five members of AP Watt's
staff are joining United Agents in the transition, however, starting next week:
Natasha
Fairweather will join United Agents' Robert Kirby as joint
head of the literary department, and Linda
Shaughnessy will serve as joint head of foreign rights. AP Watt
executives Caradoc
King and Derek
Johns will also join United Agents as partners, and agent Jon
Elek is staying with the group as well. The Bookseller says
three employees are "taking up jobs elsewhere" without adding
specifics. (The other AP Watt book agents are Juliet Pickering, Elinor Cooper,
Louise Lamont, and Donald Winchester.)
Midas Public Relations CEO Jacks Thomas will
join Reed Exhibitions UK in January as senior exhibition director for the
London Book Fair. LBF has been a Midas client for 10 years, and will remain so
in the future.
Kelly Welsh will
join Putnam and Amy Einhorn Books as senior publicity manager on December 3.
Previously she was publicity manager at Simon & Schuster's trade imprint.
Author and motivational speaker Hilary Hinton "Zig" Ziglar,
86, died on Wednesday. Best known for his 1975 book SEE YOU AT THE TOP, the WSJ
notes
he "preached in the tradition of American self-help that stretched back
through Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale." Seth Godin tells the
paper, "All of us do this professionally standing on the shoulders of Zig
Ziglar."
Kevin Powers won
the Guardian First Book Award for THE YELLOW BIRDS.
Every bestseller list has its own rules and
quirks; the closely-watched FOUR-HOUR CHEF by Tim Ferriss can now claim one No. 1
slot, topping the WSJ's ebook nonfiction list (helped by the promotional ebook
launch price of $4.99), and ranking No. 3 on their combined print and ebook
nonfiction list.
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