Judith Regan has hired three editors for the newly launched Regan Arts. Fritz Brantley, Ron Hogan and Michael Szczerban will join the new Phaidon division.
Senior editor Szczerban comes to Regan Arts from Simon & Schuster, where he was the recipient of the 2012 Lawrence Peel Ashmead Editorial Award. In his new role, Szczerban will acquire fiction and nonfiction, focusing on “transformative ideas,” “technology and culture,” and “why we are the way we are.”
Hogan, a former GalleyCat editor, comes to Regan Arts from Shelf Awareness where he served as contributing editor. In the new job, Hogan will acquire fiction and nonfiction, focusing on “current affairs,” “pop culture,” and “inspirational/entrepreneurial stories.”
Associate editor Fritz Brantley comes to the new imprint Routledge, where he served as editor and marketer. Brantley has also written for Oprah.com, Publisher’s Weekly, and the East Bay Express.
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We would like to invite all GalleyCat and eBookNewser readers to join our annual holiday pet parade. Email us pictures of your pets for our photo spread.
In a tradition established by former GalleyCat editor Ron Hogan (click the photo to enlarge the picture of his cat, Clo) we post readers’ pictures of their literary pets during the holiday season. Email GalleyCat your pictures, we’ll launch the feature next week.
Here’s more from Hogan’s original post: “Every year around this time, GalleyCat invites publishing industry professionals (including published authors) to send us pictures of your cats, dogs, and other pets—preferably either engaged in holiday cheer or something book-related. (See here for examples from last year’s holiday season.) Be sure to tell us a little something about you and your pet”
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My final
Publishing Perspectives story takes an inside look at four of the Buzz Authors of adult books—British actress and playwright Rachel Joyce (
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry), Vaddey Ratner (
In the Shadow of the Banyan), Susannah Cahalan (
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness), and Antoine Wilson (
Panorama City). Facilitated by Beatrice's own Ron Hogan, the panelists reflected not just on what they write but how they hear the voices that carry their tales.
The whole story can be found
here.
After battling a rare form of spinal cancer for years, author Stephen Beirne passed away this week.
In 2008, HarperCollins and the Make-A-Wish Foundation teamed up to help 17-year-old Beirne achieve his “perfect wish”–to publish his novel, November Reign. Former GalleyCat editor Ron Hogan wrote about the inspiring story when the novel was published.
Here’s more about the remarkable story: “You see, word of Beirne’s wish came to the Learned Owl Book Store in Hudson, Ohio, and from there to Denise Dolence, a creative director at HarperCollins. Dolence rallied the troops, with more than 20 publishing industry professionals donating their time to shepherd November Reign through every stage of publication, from copyediting to cover design to the printing of a 3,000-copy first edition. All this summer, the book has been available for sale exclusively at the Learned Owl, and Beirne is donating all the proceeds back to Make-A-Wish.”
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I’m honored to be up today at Beatrice.com, with a little essay about sexism in “traditional” children’s books. Beatrice was one of the first lit-blogs I ever read regularly, and Ron Hogan is one of those people who make the world run. Illuminati kinda guy. No joke.
Stop by?
