Canadian writer A S A Harrison, whose debut novel The Silent Wife (Headline) is due for worldwide release in June, has died.

The writer had been due to participate in July's Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, as part of Val McDermid's "New Blood" panel event, which each year...

Scholastic has made two senior appointments in newly created roles.

Samantha Smith has joined from Little, Brown in the role of fiction publisher, with Rachel Partridge [pictured] moving from Universal Pictures to take up the post of group marketing and publicity director.

Smith will be joining Scholastic on 20th May, and...

Rebellion Publishing imprint Abaddon has appointed David Moore as new commissioning editor.

Moore, previously desk editor, will oversee new commissions at the imprint as well as creating more original shared worlds, such as the steampunk adventure pulp series Pax Britannia.

Editor-in-chief of Abaddon Books and Solaris,...

Hachette Children’s Books has promoted senior rights manager Nirmal Sandhu to the position of head of rights from next month.

Sandhu has been at Hachette Children’s Books for six years; he was previously rights manager at Orchard Books. He will continue to report to group rights and digital director Andy Sharp.

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