David Davidar is leaving Penguin Canada – and there’s lots of ink on this in the Canadian press. There is concern over Penguin’s decision to not replace him, and to manage the Canadian office out of New York.
From an author’s perspective, it’s hard to anticipate how much such a change will affect individual authors and programs, if there’s any discernible effect at all. I would expect any ripples to be felt most by authors edited and published out of the Toronto offices of Penguin Canada, but it might well be that there is no change at all.
My Dragonfire series, just FYI, is published in the NAL Eclipse program, which is edited and published out of the New York offices of Penguin. My books are distributed in Canada by Penguin Canada, but I don’t have any direct dealings with the Canadian branch of the company. (Similarly, they’re distributed in the UK by Penguin UK, but I don’t have direct dealings with those offices either.) So, I expect no change.
Links for you to read more:
• an article in the Globe and Mail
• one in Quill & Quire
• one in the National Post.
ETA – More coming out on this today (Saturday June 12) and more copy in the press. I’m going to turn off the comments on this post.
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