PEOPLE Nan A. Talese will retire from her position as President, Publisher, and Editorial Director of her own imprint at Doubleday at the end of the year. She joined Random House in 1959 as a copywriter and went on to found the Nan. A Talese imprint in 1990. Elsewhere at PRH, Comedian Phoebe Robinson is…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Julia A. Reidhead, formerly VP and Publishing Director of the W. W. Norton College department, has succeeded W. Drake McFeely as President. McFeely remains Chairman. And Steven Pace, currently Sales Director at Workman, will join Norton as Director of Trade Sales on January 2. He is replacing VP and Trade Sales Director William F….Continue Reading
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (11/6/00) Shrewd advocate or two-faced monster? That’s the question currently confronting literary agents, as they depart from their traditional role as authors’ representatives and leap into the bracing — and perhaps perilous — world of electronic publishing. ”We’ve gone into it with both feet and over our hairline,” says Richard Curtis,…Continue Reading
