Posted April 15, 2021

Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights associate and film/tv Aasociate. Briar Jones has joined as Office Manager. Peter Kraus vom Cleff has been named managing director of Germany’s publisher and bookseller association Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels. He will start January 1, 2022 and succeeds Alexander Skipis. Vom Cleff has worked at Holtzbrinck for over 20 years, serving as commercial director of Rowohlt since 2008.

Posted April 13, 2021

It was a vista reminiscent of the closing scene of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark, in which a lone workman pushes a crate containing the hidden ark itself into a storage shelf, one of thousands of shelves that seem to recede into infinity. But in La Vergne, the tall racks were stacked with books. The enormous assortment of some 300,000 different book titles, each one available almost immediately to any Ingram customer, represented a core part of the company’s value

Posted April 9, 2021

Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights associate and film/tv associate. Briar Jones has joined the company as office manager. Awards PEN America announced its 2021 award winners in a ceremony on Thursday evening. Ross Gay’s Be Holding won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Asako Serizawa‘s Inheritors was awarded the PEN Open Book Award; Kawai Strong Washburn‘s Sharks in the Time of Saviors won the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel; and Barbara

Posted April 6, 2021

Mashariki was most recently chief content officer for One Community (fka Good Films). Danny Vazquez has been promoted to editor at Astra House. Gracie Elliott has been promoted to associate editor, children’s at Workman. Shirley Ortiz has been promoted to executive director of customer service and fulfillment across all Workman Publishing imprints. At Amazon Publishing, Dennelle Catlett has been promoted to senior PR manager.

Posted April 2, 2021

Sabina Khan Correction Yesterday’s newsletter ran the wrong item from The Rights Factory: Newly joining the agency is Karmen Wells has as associate agent, film and TV. She was previously an editor at Harper Canada. (Emmy Nordstrom Higdon is at Westwood Creative Artists.)

Posted March 3, 2021

She was most recently strategy & business development manager at BBCS. In her new role, Brown will oversee rights deals for film, TV, radio and theatre productions. Octavia Saenz has joined mineditionUS as assistant editor.

Posted February 10, 2021

At Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, Sharon Pelletier has been promoted to senior agent; Amy Bishop to agent and digital coordinator; and Michaela Whatnall to film rights coordinator. Cat Hosch has joined as finance manager. Andrew Dugan has joined as finance and sub rights associate. Awards PEN America announced shortlists for their 2021 Literary Awards across a number of categories.

Posted January 12, 2021

UTA has promoted book-to-film agent Jason Richman to co-lead its Media Rights Group, alongside Keya Khayatian. Richman has been at UTA since 2010. The agency says that the department has closed over 250 deals in the past year, licensing literary properties for film and TV. Separately, Christian Trimmer will lead a relaunch of MTV Books. Trimmer will report to MTV Entertainment president of content and chief content officer Nina Diaz.

Posted December 22, 2020

” Separately, Netflix has settled the lawsuit against it brought by the Conan Doyle Estate, which said that the 2020 Netflix film Enola Holmes infringed its copyright, for an undisclosed amount. While the character Sherlock Holmes is largely in the public domain, the estate does hold rights to some of the latest Sherlock Holmes books.

Posted December 18, 2020

The new company plans to publish 15 to 20 titles a year, but will also “produce original audio content and shepherd works from print or audio to film and TV.” They have a first-look deal with Amazon Studios and an audio deal with Lemonada Media. Their first title, Catherine Raven’s FOX AND I, will launch in July 2021.

Posted December 14, 2020

But the partnership isn’t just about the books – it’s also about audiences: we want to find new voices and new stories, but also new readers.” Film/TV CrichtonSun, the late Michael Crichton’s archive, publishing and production company, has paired with Range Media Partners . Together they plan to produce, package and develop a number of projects based properties in the archive, including several TV series and a movie adaptation of an unpublished manuscript.

Posted October 21, 2020

Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear) and dramatic rights for a number of top authors as part of a larger representation business focused on writers and directors in film, television and theatre — has sold a majority stake to talent management company Avalon.

Posted September 23, 2020

their one-time rival MRC will run a separate joint venture to exploit the brands and intellectual property across the two portfolios, “including television, film, live and alternative and nonfiction.” (Update: What was touted as a joint venture turned out to be an acquisition: Penske is reported to be paying $225 million to buy an 80 percent stake in MRC.

Posted August 12, 2020

56 billion ($502.2 million), compared to earnings of RMB527.7 million last year — mostly due to the devastating impact of the pandemic on film and TV production and consumption. Company ceo Cheng Wu said, “The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and a complex and changing macro-environment had a negative impact on our business. The Company recorded a loss for the first time in many years.

Posted July 24, 2020

Elton John‘s former wife Renate Blauel sued him in a British court last month over the memoir ME and the movie Rocketman, alleging that some of passages and film depictions “seriously misrepresented the nature of their relationship” and claiming he violated the terms of their divorce. Awards Samra Habib‘s WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE is the latest Canada Reads winner.

Posted July 7, 2020

She was previously senior acquisitions editor at University of Illinois Press. Catherine Zappa has been promoted to publisher and evp of film & television at Dreamscape Media. Rachel Spence has joined The Rights Factory as associate editor. She was previously acquisitions editor at Dundurn Press. Picks Barnes & Noble chose Rachel Beanland‘s Florence Adler Swims Forever as its July book club selection.

Posted May 6, 2020

Diversion also sees the series as “a proven vehicle for selling film and TV rights,” and UTA will represent those rights. Three of the announced series are by clients of Diversion founder and ceo Scott Waxman’s literary agency, and the other two are developed from books on the Diversion Publishing list. Harper Collins audio imprint Caedmon is releasing a number of classic titles in digital audio for the first time in honor of its 68th anniversary.

Posted April 14, 2020

Andrew Gibeley has joined Abrams as publicist. He was previously with HarperCollins. Veteran book-to-film agent Lucy Stille has opened her own literary management company, Lucy Stille Literary, after six years at APA. The authors she represents for film and television including David Baldacci, Therese Anne Fowler, Kate Quinn, Rob Hart, Julia Alvarez, Susan Wiggs, Stephan Talty, Jeff Pearlman, Sandra Cisneros, Chris Jones, Lara Prescott, and C.E.

Posted March 26, 2020

Notably, last week Paradigm reportedly laid off over 100 people temporarily, including book-to-film agent Sally Wilcox, and imposed salary reductions. UTA is said to have “implemented a company-wide salary cut, multiple people familiar with the decision told Variety.”The board of Informa (parent of Taylor & Francis) announced some early cost cutting: Their directors are taking a voluntary 25% reduction in board fees “through the current period of uncertainty” and all further

Posted March 3, 2020

” The publisher calls the book “a comprehensive account of his life, both personal and professional, and describes his work in films, theater, television, nightclubs, and print. Allen also writes of his relationships with family, friends, and the loves of his life.” Grand Central says, “Allen will do several interviews in coordination with the publication.