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Rockport Publishing Group acquired Creative Publishing International. Well, some of it. As we understand it, things shake out like this: Two-Can (children’s books), NorthWord Press, nature, and photography/wildlife imprints were not acquired; everything else apparently was (home improvement, decorating, sewing/craft). Hopefully this is clear as mud for everyone involved. Rockport Publishing Profile Creative Publishing International

Roaring Brook Press is entering the graphic novel game (really, at this point, who isn’t?). Mark Siegel will be working on the imprint. We understand this will be a mainstream imprint, though Roaring Brook is traditionally targeted toward the children’s market. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group (Roaring Brook’s parent company)

Bethany Brown, formerly of Adams Media, has joined the editorial staff at Sourcebooks. Sourcebooks is an independent publisher with a commitment to its authors. Though known primarily for non-fiction works, they are also acquiring fiction (agented submissions only). Sourcebooks, Inc.

A busy, busy week in the world o’ publishing. So many updates this week, it makes us wonder if it was Get A New Job Week. We made every attempt to pay careful attention, and believe we got everybody. If you moved and we didn’t get your change-of-address card, we apologize (next time, copy us […]

We are continually fascinated with the New York Post. The all-caps headlines creating a sense of looming death and destruction. The unabashed political bent. Even the recent lack of, um, properly sourcing stories tickles us. Probably because we’ve always been a bit fascinated by stories about William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism. So it was […]

We’ve encountered this story twice — and fretted twice. So we thought we’d share the love with our friends and have a worry party. Maybe it’s because, once or twice, to escape hassle we have said “vacation” instead of “business” when traveling (it was a long time ago and we score a lot of sightseeing, […]

Why does the Wall Street Journal keep so much content under lock and key? Why does The Washington Post have a such a complex registration process? And, why would Michel Dansel (The Train to Nowhwere) write 233 pages without a verb? According to Publisher’s Lunch, an author in France has done just this. We’d love […]

Another one via Sarah Weinman (we can only believe it’s much cooler where she is — lots of cool stuff on her site this week). As mentioned, oh, a billion times, we love meaty author interviews. When the author sets aside any pretense of political correctness and tells the truth. In this interview, Loren D. […]

Sarah Weinman has posted a full list of nominees for the 2003 Barry Awards, to be announced at this year’s Boucheron (which we’ve always wanted to attend just to hear how many different ways the word can be pronounced). It’s hot, we’re lazy, and Sarah’s reproduced the full list, so follow the link below. We’re […]

We don’t get the concept of a beach or summer read. We live in Southern California — we’ve never quite pinpointed when this so-called summer begins (though we know it’s sometime between awards season and the ever-growing Christmas season). We normally pass by these reading lists, not because we don’t like lists (we’re big on […]