Haber Leaves Rodale; Modern Times Imprint to Close
Leigh Haber has resigned from her position as vp/editorial director of Modern Times, the non-fiction imprint she founded last year while at Rodale. Her last day in the office was yesterday, and Rodale will close Modern Times after publishing the remaining titles on its list. "It's been a great four and a half years at Rodale, with eight NYT bestsellers and the creation of a new imprint," Haber said in an email yesterday. "While I will hugely miss the authors and books I leave behind, I felt that it was time to pursue some new ideas and challenges."

Another Potential Debut Fiction Bestseller Preview from the WSJ
Today's advance spotlight is on Andrew Davidson, a Manitoba native whose debut novel THE GARGOYLE has attracted considerable attention since Doubleday signed North American rights for $1.25 million last year. (The book publishes here in August, and also in 22 countries, including Davidson's native Canada.) Despite planned "title star treatment" from Borders and B&N (is the newspaper not allowed to use the term "co-op" in an article?) some doubt readers will want to turn past the first 75 pages of apparently explicit content. "It's too graphic, too sexual," said Rainy Day Books' Vivien Jennings, speaking of readers in the vicinity of the bookstore's Fairway, KS home. "It's not going to float here." But Davidson brushes off such concerns: "I am no more concerned about readers in the Midwest embracing the book than I am about readers at either coast, or abroad."
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Janet Silver Q&A
Poets & Writers prints an extended version of Jofie Ferrari-Adler's interview with former Houghton Mifflin publisher Janet Silver, now at Nan Talese/Doubleday as an Editor-at large.
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Genoveva Llosa has joined Ten Speed Press as a senior editor acquiring business, career, mind-body-spirit, and parenting books. She was previously at Collins, Crown, and Harvard Business School Press.

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