S&S Lands Clinton Book

April 4, 2013

S&S Lands New Book By Hillary Clinton Carolyn Reidy at Simon & Schuster bought world rights to a currently untitled book by Hillary Rodham Clinton which will cover the former Secretary of State's time in office. The book, which Robert Barnett sold, will, S&S said highlight Clinton's "key decisions and experiences as Secretary of State," as well as "her ideas for how the United States can address the challenges of a dramatically changing world in the 21st century;" it will be edited by Jonathan Karp and is scheduled for 2014. more » Struggling Indie SF Press, Night Shade, Pushes Asset Sale After several years of financial struggles, the science fiction and fantasy publisher Night Shade Books is preparing to sell its assets to Skyhorse Publishing and Start Publishing. That is, if its authors will sign off on the deal. more » Curious George Gets Multi-Platform Treatment A revamped CuriousGeorge.com Web site launched today and the popular monkey is the first of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's children's book characters to be the focus of a multi-platform, digital approach—involving a Web site, apps, books, and games—that ties into the company's education business yet appeals to consumers. more » HC Canada Buys Some Wiley Canada Titles After selling a large group of titles to Turner Publishing yesterday, John Wiley's Wiley Canada division has sold selected consumer titles to HarperCollins Canada. Among the nonfiction titles included in the deal are the Mother of All series by Ann Douglas, some hockey books and several cookbooks. more » Today's Job Ingram Content Group is seeking an Acquisitions Manager (IPS). Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Schlosser Named Executive Chairman of McGraw-Hill Education Ron Schlosser has been appointed executive chairman of McGraw-Hill Education's board of directors. Schlosser is a senior advisor to Apollo Global Management, which bought MHE last month. Prior to joining Apollo, Schlosser held senior executive positions with a number of educational publishers including Haights Cross Communications, Thomson Learning Group (now Cengage Learning), Elsevier Science and MHE. more » » Desmond Tutu Wins 2013 Templeton Prize Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has won the $1.7 million Templeton Prize for his "exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension." more » » Job Moves: April 4, 2013 Barbara Poelle, a senior agent at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, has been promoted to a vice president of the agency. At Inkwell Management, Lisa Vanterpool is public relations and social media strategist. Monika Woods has joined as assistant literary agent. more » » THE ROUNDUP Arthur Frommer Reacquires Frommers: Will publish books again. Self-Publishing is the Future: Says Hugh Howey. The All-Male Arthur C. Clarke Shortlist: "The regrettable reasons for the decline in SF by women this year don't change the fact that the best books were by men." Mackenzie Bezos Defends Amazon: "I think about how great [Amazon] is for me as a reader," Bezos said. "And that seems great for authors and books, too, to me." Does Spelling Matter?: Tony Blair and Dan Quayle have both made famous gaffes. Henry Hitchings on the importance of spelling. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air April 4, 2013: Jonathan Rieder Jonathan Rieder, author of Gospel of Freedom (Bloomsbury, 978-1620400586), will be on Tavis Talks. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash Can You Guess These Classic Books From Their Phantom Covers (Round 5)? A perfect score means a golf cart tour of PWxyz's grounds. more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey Real Live Happily Ever Afters Some people may scoff at our love of romance, but it is so heartwarming to read of love conquering all and finding each other no matter how many years have passed. more » ShelfTalker Elizabeth Bluemle (Re)Starting Our Book-of-the-Month Club How a customer's phone call reinvigorated a program that we love. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Maddow Talks 'Drift' 1,800 fans packed into a sold out Atlanta Symphony Hall late last month to hear Rachel Maddow speak about her new paperback release of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. The event was jointly sponsored by A Capella Books and the AJC Decatur Book Festival. Pictured left to right: DBF's Philip Rafshoon, Rachel Maddow, DBF's Daren Wang, and A Capella's Frank Reiss.	Of Note UJA to Honor Ingram, Lazarus Ingram chairman and CEO John Ingram will be honored at the May 8 UJA-Federation of New York's annual Publishing Division Dinner. Alison Lazarus, president of the Macmillan sales division, will be presented with the Harry Scherman Service Award that same night. The event will take place at the Grand Hyatt New York. more »

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