The other day we noticed that Simon & Schuster imprint Free Press had advertised an opening for a senior editor on Publishers Marketplace — did this mean an expansion? Well, maybe not: today Ecco books, the imprint founded by Dan Halpern and owned by HarperCollins, announced the hire of Free Press senior editor Hilary Redmon. Ms. Redmon will serve as executive editor at Ecco with a focus on acquiring non-fiction titles. Read More
Ross Douthat, author of Privilege and newly minted New York Times columnist, has signed on with Simon & Schuster’s Free Press imprint for his next book. According to Emily Loose, who will edit Mr. Douthat on this project, the book will be about American Christianity.
“I can tell you that we consider him a brilliant and Read More
Rolling Stone contributing editor, TV personality and compulsive Twitter-er Touré has signed a deal with Free Press to write a book about “post-blackness.” The book, titled Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness, was described in a deal memo posted on Publishers Lunch as a “treatise” on black identity in the age of Obama, based on Read More
Brando Skyhorse was a professional book editor until about six months ago, so he knows very well that a short-story collection by a first-time author is not the easiest thing in the world to sell a publisher. Mr. Skyhorse insisted, though, and with the help of literary agent Susan Golomb he succeeded at it last Read More
Aravind Adiga, whose novel The White Tiger won this year’s Booker Prize, has signed a new contract with Free Press, his U.S. publisher.
Free Press will put out a collection of Mr. Adiga’s short stories in June 2009; according to an announcement in the Publishers Marketplace deal-wire, the stories will be "interconnected" (like Keith Read More
The New York Times‘ Noam Cohen interviewed Shelby Steele, a race scholar currently at Stanford who authored last year’s A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win. Mr. Steele is understandably regretful about that unfortunate subtitle now that Obama is our President-elect, telling The Times Read More
Salon.com columnist (and Observer alum) Rebecca Traister will write a book about "the unexpected ways the 2008 presidential election brought issues concerning women and power, sexism and feminism to the fore" for Wylie O’Sullivan at the Free Press imprint of Simon & Schuster. Linda Loewenthal from the David Black Agency brokered Read More
Michael Cader, the man who maintains the subscription-only industry news portal Publishers Marketplace, continues to be vexed by the Man Booker Prize. The committee’s insistence on putting forth a "longlist" of 13 titles one month before announcing the actual nominees, and then invariably snubbing the favorite, has infuriated Mr. Cader for years.
The 2008 Read More
British biologist Richard Dawkins has sold a follow-up to his incendiary 2006 book The God Delusion to Hilary Redmon at Free Press. According to one source with knowledge of the deal, Mr. Dawkins’ literary agent John Brockman told some underbidders at the end of the auction that Free Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Read More
