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| Beverly Horowitz |
Beverly Horowitz is Vice President and Publisher of Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. She began her career in the editorial department of Little, Brown and has held positions as publicity/promotion director at Bradbury Press and Academic Marketing and School and Library marketing director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Beverly has never stopped being an editor. She works with Judy Blume, Louis Sachar, E. Lockhart, Laura Hillenbrand, Caroline B. Cooney, Wes Moore, and many other beloved and debut authors. Throughout her career, she has been an advocate of First Amendment rights and has fought against censorship.
In her answers and introduction Beverly talks about so much, including:
How "Frozen" merchandizing books (so many different kinds of books) have shown that "a phenomenon can filter down from one kind of platform to another." It tells us all that there are wider audiences for books than we might have thought.
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| just a few of the many "Frozen" books |
How "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart crossed over from teen to also get adult readers.
How if your book is made into a movie, it gets a wider audience of non-readers to your book. (Like James Dashner's "The Maze Runner.")
"We want to bring people back to the book."
How the family read - adults and kids reading together - is a growing trend. (Like their release of Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken.")
She also cites the roll of nostalgia in the market, the success of Diane Muldrow's "Everything I Needed To Know I Learned From A Little Golden Book."
And the power of a title that lets audience know exactly what they're going to get.
She ends with telling the rapt audience,
"What we want is what you want. To sell as many of your books in as many formats as possible."
Children's Books 2015: Report From The Front Lines gets underway with, left to right:
Stephanie Owens Lurie, Associate Publisher, Disney-Hyperion
Laura Godwin, Vice President and Publisher, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Beverly Horowitz, Vice President and Publisher, Delacorte Press
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Justin Chanda, Vice President and Publisher, S&S Books for Young Readers
The long view:
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| Lin introduces the panel! |
Close-ups from right before the panel began...
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| Stephanie Lurie (left) and Laura Godwin (right) |
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| Beverly Horowitz (left) and Justin Chanda (right) |
James Dashner (pictured, via) will pen a new prequel novel for The Maze Runner series.
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, has scheduled The Fever Code for publication in 2016. According to the press release, this new story “delves into the time before the Maze, and will tell the story of how Thomas, Teresa, and the Gladers found themselves in the Maze, and how the Maze itself was created.”
Publisher Beverly Horowitz negotiated the deal with Michael Bourret, vice president of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Executive editor Krista Marino will edit the manuscript.
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The Muppets and How I Met Your Mother star Jason Segel has inked a book deal for a middle-grade fiction series he will write with Kirsten Miller. Random House Children’s Books will publish Nightmares! in fall 2014.
If you want to read more, you can join Segel’s 2.3 million followers on Twitter. WME and Abrams negotiated the deal with Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers publisher Beverly Horowitz. Executive editor Krista Marino will edit the book. The release had more details:
Both scary and funny, NIGHTMARES! is an adventure story about a group of kids who realize it’s up to them to save their town from fear, which has manifested itself in the form of nightmare creatures that have slipped into the everyday world. At its heart, NIGHTMARES! is about kids overcoming their fears … Says Segel, “I couldn’t be more excited that NIGHTMARES! has found a home at Random House. Ultimately, it’s a story about learning that we can accomplish anything, as long as we are brave enough to try. These are the types of stories that always inspired me.”
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17-year-old novelist Beth Reekles has landed a three-book deal with Random House Children’s Books Delacorte Press imprint. They will publish The Kissing Booth on April 9th as an eBook and a trade paperback on May 14th.
You can still sample that YA novel at Wattpad. Publisher Beverly Horowitz negotiated the deal with RHCP UK rights director Bronwen Bennie. The deal includes a as-yet-untitled sequel to The Kissing Booth. Here’s more from the release:
Reekles, who lives with her parents in South Wales and is currently studying for her A level exams, began writing at fourteen using an old laptop her father had given her to do her homework. She wanted to write stories for kids her own age who, like her, had grown tired of books about “vampires and werewolves.” Her parents had no idea what she was up to, and were shocked to realize just what a large following their daughter’s writing had gained.
(Author photo via Wattpad)
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