{"id":236,"date":"2007-06-08T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2007-06-08T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T14:00:00","slug":"publishing-news-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Publishing news item"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p>I spotted this in the current <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.anvilpub.net\/southern_review_of_books.htm\">Southern Review of Books<\/a> newsletter. It may be of interest to people who are querying, or considering, imprints of literary fiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.perseusbooksgroup.com\/perseus\/home.jsp\">Perseus Books Group<\/a> will lay off more than a fourth of its staff and shut down two imprints. The May 10 announcement came in the wake of Perseus&#8217; acquisition of the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.avalonpub.com\/\">Avalon Publishing Group<\/a> in March. Perseus runs some of the leading independent presses, including Basic Books, PublicAffairs and Da Capo Press, and has a history of releasing literary and topical works. The literary Counterpoint Press imprint will be sold, and that two other imprints, Carroll &#038; Graf Publishers and Thunder&#8217;s Mouth Press, will be closed&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this in the current Southern Review of Books newsletter. It may be of interest to people who are querying, or considering, imprints of literary fiction: &#8220;The Perseus Books Group will lay off more than a fourth of its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}