G D Townshende (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
And now to list the book publishers:ArcheBooks PublishingArjuna Library PressAtheneum Books for Young Readers *Bantam Dell Publishing Group *Cellar Door Publishing, LLCChippewa Publishing, LLCCricket BooksDiskus PublishingDiversion PressTom Doherty Associates, LLC *Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy PublishingEllora's Cave Publishing, Inc.Eos *Flying Pen PressThe Invisible College PressKunati,
Word Nerd (Free subscription) | 27/08/2009
Bouchercon being a national event, draws attendees from all over. Today's author-- Vicki Lane -- will leave the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in October to come to Indianapolis. And today she reflects on her earlier experiences with Bouchercon. My First Bouchercon, by Vicki Lane “You’ll want to sign up for Bouchercon . . .” “What’s Bouchercon'” I came to writing...
Dear Author.Com (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
Shauna Summers, Senior Editor at Random House, gave us a sneak peak at upcoming Bantam/Dell/Ballantine books. Random House also sponsored a giveaway of 27 copies of different books and I threw in 9 ecopies of books for a total of 35 books. Stephanie Tyler scrounged up two ARCs of her fall release, Hard [...]
Nothing to Say & Saying It (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
This is something I wrote for the National Book Awards Blog last week. Have you been following the 60th Anniversary fiction notes? Go here: http://www.nbafictionblog.org/ You can follow the links by year. Anyway, I'm in Texas right now, and I'm away from the computer much of the time. I'm reading a lot of westerns and Postmodern theory, which seem to go well together. Bendigo Shafter By Louis L’Amour...
Babbles from Scott Eagan (Free subscription) | 18/08/2009
One of the things I really look for when I read a submission is how realistic the characters are in the story. The closer the writer can get the readers to reality (and yes this does deal with the futuristic, fantasy and paranormal) the better the connection you can make with the reader. It is that connection that draws us into the story. Shauna Summers from Bantam Dell once commented that she loves...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Unpublished Vonnegut Works to Get E-Book Treatment By Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times. In a twist that the master satirist would have appreciated, Kurt Vonnegut continues his posthumous career despite the apparent impediments to his productivity. On Wednesday, Random House said that its Delacorte Press imprint would release a series of 14 previously unpublished short stories by Mr. Vonnegut as single-story...
caribousmom (Free subscription) | 23/03/2009
Another Monday - and time to share my book acquisitions for the week. Here’s what arrived in my mailbox: Illegal by Paul Levine arrived this week from Nicole at The Book Report Network. It is a gorgeous hardcover edition with a release date from Bantam Dell Publishing Group of March 24th. Levine is an [...]
HomeTownHollywood (Free subscription) | 19/03/2009
Howie Mandel will release his memor, Here’s The Deal: Don’t Touch Me, from Bantam Dell Books in December. The tell-all autobiography promises to reveal “never-before-discussed” details about the germaphobe actor’s lifelong struggle with ADHD and obsessive compulsive disorder.
The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | 18/03/2009
Howie Mandel will release his memor, Here’s The Deal: Don’t Touch Me, from Bantam Dell Books in December. The tell-all autobiography promises to reveal “never-before-discussed” details about the germaphobe actor’s lifelong struggle with ADHD and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 21/01/2009
Book Review: Napoleon's failure in Egypt nj.com Napoleon in Egypt Paul Strathern Bantam Dell, 496 pp., $30 Reviewed by Jonathan E. Lazarus A strategically located Middle Eastern nation, with a long and rich history, had fallen on hard times. It was ruled in the most autocratic fashion by the Mamelukes, a fanatical sect who squandered resources, terrorized the population and reduced the country to a...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 15/01/2009
In a company-wide memo, Gina Centrello , the president and publisher of Random House Publishing Group, announced the new executive line-up following massive consolidation and lay-offs at Random House. The restructuring resulted in a few promotions. Former Deputy Publisher of Bantam Dell, Nita Taublib , will now serve as Publisher and Editor in Chief of that house. She will oversee these imprints:...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
After 25 years at the company, Pantheon Books publisher Janice Goldklang was laid-off as restructuring continued at Random House. The NY Observer confirmed the release of the Knopf division publisher yesterday. Last year, Random House disassembled its Doubleday and Bantam Dell divisions, distributing the pieces among the Knopf, Crown, and Random House publishing groups. More restructuring releases...
Podiobooker (Free subscription) | 08/01/2009
Last year, Bantam Dell Publishing Group’s director of Internet marketing Ken Wohlrob was facing an interesting challenge. Could the same new media efforts that had been previously leveraged by independent authors work for an established author? And how would it work when the test was for the print release of the third book in a [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
Random House , fed up with the performance of its Doubleday and Bantam Dell divisions, tore them apart and redistributed the pieces among the Knopf, Crown, and Random House publishing groups. Top executives Irwyn Applebaum and Steve Rubin were immediately displaced; the first wave of additional job cuts came a few weeks later. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt went into what outside observers quickly decided...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
After a dramatic restructuring of Random House 's assets that saw the fragments of Doubleday and Bantam Dell parceled out to the conglomerate's other publishing groups, the much-anticipated layoffs have begun, as the NY Observer reports cuts in the Random sub-rights departments . (Actually, the company started letting people go before the official reorg—before Thanksgiving, even—but it...
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