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Penguin president Madeline McIntosh, Harper s.v.p. and
director of creative development Lisa Sharkey, and Pearson Learning
Services president Bethlam Forsa contemplated how they got to where they
are and prospects for other women’s rise to the top in a Book Expo America
panel on Thursday (28th) organized by the Women’s Media Group.
McIntosh, the only “publishing native,” said that one of her
11-year-old twin sons, hearing that she would have to talk about her
leadership style, informed her: “That’s easy - tell them you’re a tyrant.”
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Hachette Children’s Group intends to increase its digital and
licensed offerings as it looks for future growth.
In an interview published in The Bookseller today (29th May),
c.e.o. Hilary Murray Hill has said the whole industry is aware of the
opportunities presented by successful licensing publishing, and that she is
looking to hire both a licensing director and a digital manager.
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At Book Expo America in New York today (Friday 29th May),
Hachette Book Group c.e.o. Michael Pietsch, Little, Brown publisher Reagan
Arthur, and bestselling author James Patterson are announcing the launch of
“jimmy patterson,” a children’s imprint which "aims to save
lives" by making kids into lifelong readers.
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Author groups such as Killer Women (pictured), The Prime
Writers and The History Girls can help writers find new ways to connect
with readers and provide them with a “safe space” to socialise and talk
about the publishing process, authors have told The Bookseller.
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Arts Council England (ACE) has launched a £1.2m fund to
support creative writing in schools.
Meanwhile, ACE's recently appointed chief executive Darren
Henley has urged the government to cease cuts to art funding.
Between October 2015 and October 2018, ACE will invest in
three funding awards for organisations that send professional writers to do
creative writing workshops in schools.
The money will be given as three separate awards for projects
aimed at children between the ages of 8-14 and at least one will go to an
organisation in the North or South West.
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Brian Davies, chairman of Penguin Random House UK’s
distribution companies, is to leave Penguin Random House in September.
Davies will also step down from the PRH executive.
He will move to a four-day week until his departure at the end
of September.
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Michael Joseph will release an autobiography by footballer
Steven Gerrard this autumn.
The book, called Steven
Gerrard: My Story, promises to be an “intimate and revelatory
account” of Gerrard’s career.
Gerrard joined Liverpool at the age of eight and went on to
play more than 700 games for the club, which he has just left. Gerrard has
also captained England, winning 114 caps.
He will now play in America for LA Galaxy.
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Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a memoir of caring for
terminally ill parents which manages to be "funny and outrageous"
despite its subject matter.
Publisher Hannah Black bought UK and Commonwealth rights to
Dan Marshall’s Home is Burning from Jenny Meyer at Jenny Meyer Literary
Agency.
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Darf Publishers, which focuses on Arabic fiction in
translation, is looking to make an impact on the UK market with its 2015
list.
Although managing director Ghassan Fergiani relaunched the
publishing company last year, it is actually a much older family business,
one that originated in Tripoli, Libya, in 1952, when Fergiani’s father
Mohammed opened his first bookshop. As the shops flourished, Mohammed began
dealing with publishers and importing books from abroad which led him into
publishing.
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The European Commission has launched a consultation on
delivery across borders, as part of its work on creating a digital single
market.
The digital single market aims to “tear down regulatory
walls and finally move from 28 national markets to a single one”.
Earlier this month the European Commission announced 16
actions which would help create a digital single market, and among these
was the need for more efficient and affordable parcel delivery.
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This autumn will see Transworld imprint Doubleday publish the
first short-story collections of four high-profile authors.
August sees the publication of John Boyne’s Beneath the Earth
(£14.99) and Adam Johnson’s Fortune
Smiles (£15); September will mark the release of Donal Ryan’s A Slanting of the Sun (£12.99,
on the Doubleday Ireland list); and Rachel Joyce’s A Snow Garden and Other Stories (£9.99)
will be published in November. All are hardbacks.
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A new literary-themed East London club night, called Late
Night Library Club, is being launched, with the first event celebrating
Sarah Waters’ Tipping
the Velvet (Virago).
Late Night Library Club has been set up by the
team behind The Amy Grimehouse cinema and arts club night that celebrates
the “trashy, camp, cult and transgressive”. The new club night for book
lovers aims to “add a touch of trash and a splash of camp” to the traditional
monthly book club.
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