Simon and Schuster News

Julia Prosser has been promoted to deputy director of publicity at the Simon & Schuster imprint.

Steven Spielberg's broadly but thinly acclaimed "Lincoln" drew on Doris Kearns Goodwin's very good book, "A Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln," [Simon & Schuster, 2005], but what Goodwin deeply understood the moviemaker missed.

The host of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live" has a deal with Gallery Books for "Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney." Gallery, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, announced Wednesday that the book is scheduled for October.

This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic," by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.

Cary Goldstein, who was relieved of his job as publisher of Twelve in April , is joining his old boss, Jon Karp, at Simon & Schuster.

Simon & Schuster will publish a series of books tied to Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood , under a master publishing license with the Fred Rogers Company and Out of the Blue Enterprises.

In an interesting public-private partnership, children's reading app Ruckus is teaming up with Connecticut Public Television to offer a CPTV-branded kids' iOS app.

IN 2009, when wounds gouged by the Global Financial Crisis were still raw, Wall Street was widely regarded as a cesspool of greed, deception, excess and ineptitude.

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A former criminal attorney who has been acquitted of his wife's murder retreats to his family estate on a rocky New England cliff, where he is comforted by the house's caretaker amid continuing danger.

This book cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And all the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic," by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong.

Review of Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin To Einstein: Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe .

David Rosenthal is no stranger to corporate culture. This is one reason why he covets the size of Blue Rider Press, his relatively new boutique imprint at Penguin.

Hardcover fiction 1. "The Hit" by David Baldacci 2. "Whiskey Beach" by Nora Roberts 3. "Fly Away" by Kristin Hannah 4. "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" by Mary Higgins Clark 5. "Paris" by Edward Rutherford 6. "Wedding Night: A Novel" by Sophie Kinsella 7. "Star Wars: Vader's Little Princess" by Jeffrey Brown 8. "The Mystery Woman" by Amanda Quick 9.

Portland writer Lois Leveen has signed a two-book deal with Emily Bestler Books, an imprint at Simon & Schuster.

With litigation and settlement costs connected to the various e-book pricing cases behind it, profits at Simon & Schuster rose 20% in the first quarter ended March 31 compared to a year ago, despite a 3% decline in sales.

Matt Bayan , comedian, author and Co-President of High Sierra Writers gave this advice in his latest book, The Firecracker King .

That happened just eight months after Google had bought the rights from John Wiley & Sons-Frommer sold his guidebook business in 1977 to Simon & Schuster so now he's come full circle.

Two sisters are threatened by a dark secret from their family's past. 2. DON'T GO, by Lisa Scottoline.

Comedy legend Carol Burnett, 79, has a new book, "Carrie and Me" , a memoir she unapologetically calls "a mother-daughter love story." Burnett's oldest daughter, Carrie, died of brain and lung cancer in 2002.