Rachel

Samantha Smith will join Scholastic UK on May 20th as Fiction Publisher. Samantha is currently Editorial Director at Little Brown, where she has worked with authors including P.C. and Kristin Cast, Chris Colfer and Stephenie Meyer.  She will report to Hilary Murray Hill, MD of Scholastic Children’s Books, who has overall responsibility for Scholastic’s trade publishing in the UK.  

Hilary commented, ‘‘Samantha’s appointment will enhance our exceptional editorial team and take the Scholastic fiction list forward in new directions.  I am absolutely delighted that we will be working together”. Samantha said, ''I'm thrilled to be joining Scholastic. It's a house with a brilliant publishing history, one that I very much grew up with, but that remains a vibrant and dynamic part of children's publishing today and is incredibly well-placed to meet the challenges of the market going forward. I'm looking forward to working with the in-house team and their outstanding authors.”

5 Top Tips for Approaching Book Reviewers (Rachel in the OC) Self-Publishing Success Stories: The Anatomy of a Kindle Bestseller (The Creative Penn) More Kids Read E-Books But What Do They Retain? (Digital Book World) The Onion Gets Into eSingles With Joe Biden Autobiography (The Digital Reader) Kindle Daily Deals: While the World Watched by Carolyn Maull (and others)

The post Morning Links — Tips for self-publishers appeared first on TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics.

British Library launches eBook Treasures (British Library website & ebooktreasures.org) Amazon quietly introduces Kindle rentals for US readers (Engadget) Why a good bookstore is not a money-maker (The Globe and Mail) 5 Top Tips for Approaching Book Reviewers (Rachel in the OC) Kindle Daily Deals: 5 Top-Rated Romance Novels (+ two others)

The post Morning Links — British Library launches eBook Treasures appeared first on TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics.

One of Ireland top trade publishers has started releasing ebooks. Gill & Macmillan has begun releasing its immediate front list and popular backlist titles on Amazon’s Kindle platform. Beginning with a  batch of eight released in December 2011, the publisher has now released 19 titles in total including Dying To Survive the memoir of former heroin addict Rachel [...]

More Blogs