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1. Calvert Morgan Named Publisher of It Books

Cal Morgan has been named senior vice president and publisher of HarperCollins’ It Books imprint.

Morgan will also oversee the Harper Design imprint team and continue to serve as editorial director of the Harper Perennial original paperback program. He will report to Michael Morrison.

You can follow Morgan on Twitter. He began his career at Macmillan’s St. Martin’s Press. After joining HarperCollins in 1999, he worked at several imprints including ReganBooks, Harper and William Morrow. He has worked with Neil StraussLauren RednissJerry Lee Lewis, Kelly Oxford, Stanley Crouch, Arianna HuffingtonMichael Moore and Ralph Nader.

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2. Stephanie Meyers & Michael Signorelli Promoted at HarperCollins

HarperCollins’ has made two promotions in its editorial team at the Harper Perennial imprint.

Michael Signorelli has been named editor. He started off as a rotational intern and worked in marketing before joining editorial. Some of his authors include Dennis Cooper, Justin Taylor, and Hannah Nordhaus.

Stephanie Meyers has also been named editor. She has been with the company for five years  and we interviewed her last year. Her titles include The Official CIA Guide to Trickery and Deception, The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, and Cruising Attitude.

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3. Blake Butler to Host Marathon Readings of His Entire Novel

On four different nights, novelist Blake Butler will host a marathon reading of his new book, There Is No Year. Held in four different locations, a team of New York writers will help read the complete novel.

Click on the image embedded above for the dates and exact locations. Participants include: “Ben Greenman, Emma Straub, John Dermot Woods, Justin Taylor, Jo Weldon, Rachel Shukert, Melissa Broder, Jonny Diamond, Adam Robinson, Dorethea Lasky, Shya Scanlon, Lincoln Michel, Butler and his own editor [at] Harper Perennial, Cal Morgan.”

Butler edits the literary blog HTML Giant and two journals, Lamination Colony and No Colony. In 2009, he published a novella called Ever.

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4. Betsy and the Great World and Betsy's Wedding

by Maud Hart Lovelace. Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition, 2009. Copy supplied by publisher. My love of these books was made known via twitter & that is how these lovely volumes came into my hands.

I reviewed Betsy's twentysomething books earlier. Exploring Europe on your own, setting up your own life, focusing on career, getting married -- Betsy's life isn't so different from anyone today; tho (as we know from the excerpts from The Betsy Tacy Companion, included as backmatter in this book) Lovelace shifted the "real" timeline.

Anna Quindlen's foreword is her 1993 speech to the Betsy-Tacy Society. It focuses on the feminism in Betsy's world, where Betsy's writing, her talent, her future success is never doubted by her family or friends. Betsy gets to have her cake and eat it, too; as Quindlen points out, "the most important thing about Betsy Ray is that she has a profound sense of confidence and her own worth." Hopefully, knowing Betsy helps her readers have those things. As I watch Mad Men, set in the late 1960s, I think of these last two volumes, written in the mid 1950s. And I think, I bet Peggy Olsen read these books; I'm sure Betty Draper did not.
Once again, the backmatter contains excerpts and photographs from The Betsy Tacy Companion; along with a brief "what happened to so and so" chapter.


© Elizabeth Burns of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy

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5. Betsy Was A Junior and Betsy and Joe


Betsy Was a Junior/Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace. Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition, 2009. Copy supplied by publisher. My love of these books was made known via twitter & that is how these lovely volumes came into my hands.

As I explained earlier, yes, I posted about Betsy: The High School Years; but with the opportunity to see what was being done with the reissued books, well, I had to post about the new forewords or back matter.

Meg Cabot (who, like me, came to Betsy as an adult reader) writes the introduction to Betsy's junior and high school years. "Slipping into a Betsy book is like slipping into a favorite pair of well-worn slippers," she writes, and we sigh and agree and open up the book once more. A foreword like this is meant for those who have already read the books; to say, let's sit together one more time. Cabot explains Betsy's appeal in that Betsy is not perfect. She makes mistakes. Good lord, the Okto Deltas! A terrible decision, but what a wonderfully illustrated example of why to not have "your friendships fenced in by snobbish artificial barriers." (Tho Cabot being Cabot, she is quick to tell us that Elle Woods teaches us that not all sororities are bad). Cabot reminds us what a whole and satisfying journey Betsy makes, in moving from girl to woman, from a girl who writes to a writer.

Once again, the backmatter contains excerpts and photographs from The Betsy Tacy Companion, a must-read for fans.


© Elizabeth Burns of A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy

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6. Heavens to Betsy and Betsy In Spite of Herself


Heaven to Betsy/Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace. Harper Perennial Modern Classics Edition, 2009. Copy supplied by publisher. My love of these books was made known via twitter & that is how these lovely volumes came into my hands.

Why post again again when I just wrote about these books in Betsy: The High School Years?

Because when you fall for Betsy Ray, you fall hard. So be prepared for posts about the last six of the Betsy Ray books, reissued in three volumes.

These first two books span Betsy's freshmen and sophomore years in High School. Laura Lippman, mystery writer, writes the foreword. Reading what other Betsy admirers has to say is like meeting a friend; and reading what someone like Lippman has to say offers new insights into understanding just what is the attraction about turn of the century Deep Valley and the people who lived there.

Speaking as a teen who read Betsy, Lippman remembers that "Betsy was the most relatable character I could find." She talks about Betsy and her writing, and how "the person who comes between Betsy and her writing in her first two years of high school is ... Betsy." And how through it all, Betsy writes -- moves forward in her dream of writing, despite everything -- with the support of those who love her. A fine role model for anyone.

I also reviewed The Betsy Tacy Companion, a must-read for fans. Harper has the applicable excerpts from the Companion in this volume! Including the photographs of the "real" people and places! So you can read the books and get instant gratification by reading the "true" story behind the books.


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