A very interesting artilce in the New York Times about the merger of Random House and Penguin and the future of the publishing industry. An important read: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/penguin-random-house-merger.html
Best Books of the Year
What are your favorite books of 2012? Amazon just released their top 100 picks for 2012. See if your favorites made the list: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/5916596011/ref=surl_boty2012.
Jen’s looking forward to speaking at the 2nd Annual Compleat Biographers Conference in Washington, DC at the National Press Club on Saturday (5/21). She’ll be talking about How to Hire an Independent Publicist with Erin Cox from Rob Weisbach Creative Management.
She’s looking forward to meeting an impressive roster of biographers, too, including:
- Algeo, Matthew The President is a Sick Man
- Brown , Ellen Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind
- Buford, Kate Native American Son
- Eig, Jonathan Get Capone
- Farrell, John A. Clarence Darrow
- Haygood, Wil Sweet Thunger: Life & Time of Sugar Ray Robinson
- Heller, Anne Ayn Rand and the World She Made
- Kelley, Kitty Oprah
- Leavy, Jane The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End
- Leepson, Marc Lafayette: Lessons in Leadership From the Idealist General
- Morris, James McGrath Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power
- Powers, Thomas The Killing of Crazy Horse
- Schiff, Stacy Cleopatra
The Washington Post loves FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR
FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR is receiving great press. This weekend, Carolyn See of The Washington Post gave the book a rave review, as did the Boston Globe.
FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR hits the LA Times bestseller list!
Great news: Hazel Rowley’s FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR has just hit the LA Times bestseller list at #18 in the nonfiction section.
