Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the second largest publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006.^[1] Its headquarters are in 237 Park Avenue, Midtown Manhattan, New York City.^[2][3] Hachette is considered one of the "Big Six" publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Penguin Putnam, HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster.^[4]

History[link]

The earliest publisher to eventually become part of the Hachette Book Group was Little, Brown and Company, founded in 1837, acquired by Time Inc. in 1968.^{[citation needed]}
Warner Communications had acquired the Paperback Library in 1970 to form Warner Books.^[5] In 1982, CBS Publications sold off Popular Library to Warner.^[6] In April 1985, Warner Books relaunched Popular Library starting out with five other books plus the reprint of Question of Upbringing continuing each month with the follow volumes from A Dance to the Music of Time series by Anthony Powell. Additional, two books would be issued per month from Popular's new imprint, Questar, for science fiction.^[7] Time merged with Warner Communications to form Time Warner in 1989.^[8] Publisher Macdonald & Co. was bought in 1992 to become part of the Time Warner Book Group UK, and in 1996 the various branches merged to become Time Warner Trade Publishing, later renamed to Time Warner Book Group.^{[citation needed]} In 2003, Time Warner attempted to sell the Book Group but failed to get high enough bids. In March 2006, Time Warner completed the sale of Book Group to Lagardère to be place under its Hachette Livre book publishing arm.^[9] Its Warner Books subsidiary renamed itself Grand Central Publishing in March 2006. Grand Central also launched a more literary imprint, Twelve, under former Random House editor in chief Jonathan Karp.^[10] On February 5, 2010, Hachette announced that it would adopt an agency pricing model for its ebooks.^[11]

Current imprints[link]

Hachette has acquired a number of publishing brands aimed at different markets, and these brands themselves contain sub-imprints which are used to publish to an even more targeted audience. Imprints include:^[12]

Inactive imprints[link]

Many imprints have been acquired by the Hachette Group and the companies that were merged to form the group. Many are no longer active.

• Abacus
• Paperback Library (called the Warner Paperback Library after acquisition by Warner Communications in 1970)
• Questar Science Fiction
• Warner Aspect

Bestselling authors[link]

References[link]

See also[link]

• The Big Six book publishers: Random House, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Putnam, Macmillan and HarperCollins

External links[link]

	New York City portal
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• Hachette Book Group website

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William Kotzwinkle (born 1938^[1] or 1943^[2]) is an American novelist, children's writer, and screenwriter. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction. Kotzwinkle wrote the novelization of the screenplay for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Novels[link]

• The Firemen (1969)
• Elephant Boy: A Story of the Stone Age (1970)
• The Day the Gang Got Rich (1970)
• The Ship That Came Down The Gutter (1970)
• The Return of Crazy Horse (1971)
• Hermes 3000 (1972)
• The Supreme, Superb, Exalted and Delightful, One and Only Magic Building (1973)
• The Fan Man (1974)
• Night Book (1974)
• Up the Alley with Jack and Joe (1974)
• Swimmer in the Secret Sea (1975) (actually a short story published in mass-market paperback format, as a sort of chapbook)
• Doctor Rat (1976)
• The Leopard's Tooth (1976)
• Fata Morgana (1977)
• The Ants Who Took Away Time (1978)
• Herr Nightingale And the Satin Woman (1978)
• Dream of Dark Harbor: A Ghostly Sea Story (1979)
• The Nap Master (1979)
• Jack in the Box (1980) (later re-titled as Book of Love at the release of the movie based on it)
• Christmas at Fontaine's (1982)
• Superman III (1983) (film novelization)
• Great World Circus (1983)
• Queen of Swords (1983)
• Seduction in Berlin (1985)
• The Exile (1987)
• The Midnight Examiner (1989)
• The Game of Thirty (1994)
• The Million-Dollar Bear (1995)
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain (1996)
• The Amphora Project (2005)

Collections[link]

• Elephant Bangs Train (1971)
• The Oldest Man: And Other Timeless Stories (1971)
• Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries (1983)
• Jewel of the Moon (1985)
• Hearts of Wood: And Other Timeless Tales (1986)
• The Hot Jazz Trio (1989)
• Tales from the Empty Notebook (1995)

Short stories[link]

• "The Curio Shop" (1980)
• "Fragments of Papyrus from the Temple of the Older Gods" (1988)
• "Blues on the Nile: A Fragment of Papyrus" (1989)
• "Boxcar Blues" (1989)
• "Django Reinhardt Played the Blues" (1989)
• "Horse Badorties Goes Out" (1973)

Screenplays[link]

• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) (original story, for the film)
• Book of Love (1990) (adapted from his novel Jack in the Box, for the film)

[edit] E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial series

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) (with Melissa Mathison)
• E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet (1985)

Children's books[link]

• The World Is Big and I'm So Small (1986)

• Walter the Farting Dog series (with Glenn Murray)(illustrations by Audrey Colman)
  • Walter the Farting Dog (2001) ISBN 1-58394-053-7
  • Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Yard Sale (2004) ISBN 0-525-47217-7 (this book has also been released as Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again)
  • Rough Weather Ahead for Walter the Farting Dog (2005) ISBN 0-525-47218-5
  • Walter the Farting Dog goes on a Cruise (2006) ISBN 0-525-47714-4
  • Walter The Farting Dog: Banned From the Beach (June 21, 2007) ISBN 0-525-47812-4 (co-written with Elizabeth Gundy)
  • Walter, Canis Inflatus (2004) ISBN 1-58394-110-X

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Eccentric Individuality in William Kotzwinkle's "The Fan Man", "E.T.", "Doctor Rat" and Other Works of Fiction and Fantasy, Leon Lewis (2002)
• biography
• Interview with Kotzwinkle
• William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Movie Database
• William Kotzwinkle at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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Tom Joyner
Born	(1949-11-23) November 23, 1949 (age 62) Tuskegee, Alabama
Show	The Tom Joyner Morning Show
Network	Citadel Media
Style	Comedy, Talk, Urban Adult Contemporary, R&B/Soul
Country	United States
Spouse(s)	Donna Richardson-Joyner Dora Chatmon Joyner (divorced)
Children	Thomas Jr. Oscar

Thomas "Tom" Joyner (born November 23, 1949) is an American radio host, host of the nationally syndicated The Tom Joyner Morning Show, and also founder of REACH Media Inc., the Tom Joyner Foundation, and BlackAmericaWeb.com.^[1]

Early life[link]

Joyner was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, and received a degree in sociology from Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). While a student at Tuskegee Joyner joined the fraternity Omega Psi Phi.

Radio career[link]

He began his broadcasting career in Montgomery, Alabama immediately upon graduation, and worked at a number of radio stations in the American South, before moving to Chicago at WJPC (AM) (now WNTD).

In the mid-1980s, Joyner was simultaneously offered two positions: one for a morning show at KKDA-FM (K104) in Dallas and one for an afternoon show at WGCI-FM in Chicago. Instead of choosing between the two, Joyner chose to take both jobs, and for years he commuted daily by plane between the two cities, earning the nicknames "The Fly Jock" and "The Hardest Working Man in Radio." He later told Radio Ink magazine that he racked up 7 million frequent flyer miles over the course of his employment at both stations

In 1994, Joyner was signed by ABC Radio Networks to host a nationally-syndicated program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, featuring Joyner and a team of comedians and commentators reporting and discussing the latest news and sports of the day, and playing popular R&B songs from the 1970s through the 1990s as well as contemporary R&B hits. Also featured are celebrity guests, on-site remotes (called "Sky Shows"), and an on-air soap opera, It’s Your World which is currently not aired. Southwest Airlines is a prominent sponsor of the radio show, especially Joyner's "Sky Shows," and free round-trip airfare to any destination that Southwest flies to is a recurring giveaway on his show.

[edit] The Tom Joyner Show

In 2005, a nationally syndicated television show, The Tom Joyner Show, was launched with Joyner as emcee of a one-hour comedy/variety show, combining sketch comedy featuring the Tom Joyner Show Players (his co-hosts from the radio show), talent contests, and musical performances by such artists as Earth, Wind and Fire, Brian McKnight, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Toni Braxton. The show attracted advertisers such as McDonalds, Chrysler Corporation, WalMart and Southwest Airlines.

While the program achieved top ratings for a weekly syndicated program themed to African American viewers — even taking the number one show position, although it was in a late night time slot — in such markets as New York and Atlanta, affiliates in other markets were reluctant to upgrade the show to prime time for a targeted audience.^{[citation needed]} Without the opportunity to reach a larger audience in earlier time slots and achieve greater revenues, the show had limited ability to offset the residuals and music clearances required by the many performers appearing on the show. Despite award recognition, in May 2006, Joyner decided not to continue due to production costs related to the music variety show concept.^{[citation needed]} Re-runs are shown on TV One cable channel.^[2]

Books and other media[link]

In 2005 Warner Books published "I'm Just a DJ but ... It Makes Sense to Me" written with his longtime writer, Mary Flowers Boyce. The book chronicles his childhood and early days in radio as well as offers Joyner's thoughts on Historically Black Colleges and Universities ("HBCUs"), the power of the black consumer and fatherhood. In February 2009, Amber Books published Tom Joyner Presents How to Prepare for College, a primer for parents and their children offering specific suggests and advice. The book features a foreword written by Joyner with writers Wil and Thomas LaVeist.

He appeared with his father and grandfather in the documentary "Rising from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter" crediting his family with passing down important values which he passed down to his sons as well. His grandfather Oscar "Doc" Joyner was a Pullman porter who became a medical doctor.^[3]

Tom Joyner has had cameo roles in two films-The Gospel (2005)^[4][5] and Madea Goes to Jail (2009).^[6][7] He also had another television show, The Tom Joyner Sky Show (2003),^[8] and has appeared on many other television programs.^[9]

Personal life[link]

With his first wife Dora, Tom is the father of two sons, Thomas Jr. and Oscar, whom he calls "Killer" and "Thriller".Tom Joyner was born in 1949 in Tuskegee, Alabama. His father was in a Tuskegee airman and his mother was a secretary for the military. ^[10] He is currently married to celebrity aerobics instructor/fitness expert Donna Richardson.^[11]

Philanthropy[link]

Joyner has been an advocate for voter registration and throughout the year promotes voter registration over the air, on his website and during his live 'Sky Shows' broadcasts. To improve healthy living, Joyner holds a 'Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day' every April or September. On that day, he rallies families and friends to go to the doctor to get a check up to prevent any health problems, and particularly treat any existing issues.

Joyner is participating in the 2011 Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's™ to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's research, care and support.

Tom Joyner Foundation[link]

Joyner has also founded The Tom Joyner Foundation to provide financial assistance to students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Since 1998, it has raised more than $60 million to help keep students enrolled at HBCUs. The Tom Joyner Foundation also hosts an annual cruise named the Fantastic Voyage which also raises money for HBCU's.^[12]

[edit] Scholarships

The Hercules Scholarships

The Hercules Scholarship, formerly the Brotha’s On the Move Scholarship, is named after Tom Joyner’s late father Hercules L. Joyner. This scholarship embodies and celebrates successful male students attending HBCUs. Students selected for this scholarship must exhibit academic excellence, leadership skills and community services. They must be a male, enrolled as a full time student and have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. All students are selected to be Hercules Scholars through the Tom Joyner Foundation School of Month program. The students are also announced on the Tom Joyner Morning Show every Thursday.

Full Ride Scholarship
The Full Ride Scholarship is the Foundation’s most prestigious scholarship award to date. One (1) scholarship is awarded to a freshman entering a HBCU in the respective year’s fall semester. The scholarship recognizes academic distinction as well as strong character and personal qualities. The recipient of the Full Ride Scholarship receives full tuition waivers and stipends to cover on campus room and board and books. The scholarship recipient must maintain a required 3.0 GPA based on a 4.00 scale and 15 credit hours per semester. The scholarship award is renewed each semester up to 10 semesters.

2008 Winner - Britney Wilson 2009 Winner - Blaine Robertson 2010 Winner - Cheynne Boyce

[edit] Programs

Veterans Education Program
Central State University in Wilberforce, Ohio partnered with the Foundation by donating $10,000 to jumpstart the program that offers support in the following areas: • Education – Help veterans find appropriate classes and other programs to complete their undergraduate degrees or pursue advanced degrees. • Counseling – Assist veterans in coordinating programs with Veteran Affairs departments at colleges, local, state and federal agencies. • Supportive Services – Assist veterans with housing, career, child care, and transitioning into mainstream life

Global Education
The Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE), which administers the Semester at Sea study abroad program, partnered with The Tom Joyner Foundation (TJF) to fund two full scholarships for students attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCU’s) to participate in global voyages. ISE and TJF believe that international exposure is a critical element in today’s undergraduate education, offering students a real-life global education experience that will give them an edge in this highly competitive job market. The program is open to students, regardless of their major.

Teacher Quality
The Foundation is rekindling its partnership with the National Education Association for its Teacher Quality Program, formerly known as the Teacher Certification Program.

Art Legacy
As part of its partnerships with black artists, the Foundation is celebrating their great contributions to HBCUs, the art world and society. These artists' works will be featured throughout the year on its website as well as selling limited editions of some of its pieces.

Awards[link]

On October 7, 2004, Joyner was awarded the NAB Marconi Radio Award.^[13]

In 1998, Joyner was the first African American to be inducted into The National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Illinois.^[14][15]

Joyner was inducted in the International Civil Rights Walk of Fame at the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site on January 12, 2008.^[16]

References[link]

External links[link]

• http://www.blackamericaweb.com/
• USA Today Q&A
• http://forums.tomjoyner.com/

Asshole: How I Got Rich and Happy by Not Giving a Shit About You is a 2008 spoof self-help book and memoir by American author Martin Kihn. The book's title in the U.S. was modified to Asshole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too.

Content[link]

"In corporate America, if you are ambitious, or if you just want to go for the big money, it more than helps to be an asshole."

— Marty Kihn ^[1]

The first line of Marty Kihn’s book, is "I was the nicest guy in the world and it was killing me."^[1] Kihn, who works for a marketing company, is told by his boss that unless he started "playing hardball", they were going to demote him and upgrade a colleague Kihn calls "The Nemesis" to a window office.^[1] So to save his career, Kihn decides to turn himself into an asshole, and in telling his story, he describes exactly how the reader can can follow his lead.^[1]

To become an asshole, Kihn builds a team, consisting of an acting coach, life coach and both personal and dog trainer - to help "master the art of assholism."^[1] Kihn then creates a ten-step "assholism" program which involves "ignoring other peoples’ feelings, never saying sorry, dressing in black silk and only eating red meat."^[2] Other tasks saw Kihn signing up to the National Rifle Association, learning kickboxing, screaming at colleagues and eating garlic bagels on public transport.^[3] Additionally, Kihn takes inspiration from famous figures whom he considers "assholes" such as: Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Martha Stewart, David Letterman, Ayn Rand, Nicole Kidman, Machiavelli, Scarface and Paris Hilton.^[1] He also takes inspiration from Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and The Virtue of Selfishness.^[1]

In speaking on his motivations for compiling the work, Kihn stated

I'd spent a lifetime seeing therapists and psychiatrists, and following things like The Warrior Diet. I guess I wanted to parody those types of books and move away from the whiny, self-centred, introspective stuff towards real action.^[2]

In the end, he is successful. By "finding the balls to act like an asshole, he crushes The Nemesis", gets a promotion, then nets a large sum of cash, and a second home into the bargain, by selling the book to Hollywood for a six-figure sum.^[1] Warner Brothers also paid $500,000 for the film rights to his memoirs before he’d even written them.^[2]

Martin Kihn’s Ten Steps to Becoming An Asshole[link]

• 1. Fake it ‘til you make it - Act confident, pushy and assertive, even if you’re not. Kihn hired an acting coach to help him lose his default ‘nice guy’ mannerisms. He learned to replace his smile with a thrust-out chin, a glare or a yawn.

• 2. Find asshole role models - Pay close attention to assholes at work, on TV or in the street and copy their behaviour. Kihn studied Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana’s body language and also drew inspiration from Donald Trump, a man in his building with a tattoo on his face and ‘people who attend NRA conventions’.

• 3. Hire a life coach - Fill your head with aggressive, asshole thoughts through ‘negative meditation’. Use visualisation techniques to imagine the new callous, powerful, asshole you.

• 4. Become the alpha dog - Learn dominant, intimidating behaviour by observing dogs and episodes of TV’s The Dog Whisperer.

• 5. Be a fighter, not a lover - Use pain, caffeine, energy drinks and a red meat only diet to hone your body into ‘a walking sphincter’. Take boxing lessons.

• 6. Show no interest in others - Be the centre of your own universe. Interrupt others when they speak. Always speak loudly – if it’s a phone call, put them on speakerphone.

• 7. Criticise in public, praise in private - Undermine others, particularly if it takes the heat off you. Use subtle mind games to manipulate others and keep them on-side. Total confusion will make victimisation easier.

• 8. Keep your eyes on the prize - Remain focused to the point where nothing else matters. Don’t waste time with people if they can’t help you on your way.

• 9. Never, ever admit a mistake - Lie if necessary, but always maintain an air of infallibility.

• 10. Leap before you look - Instead of whining and being introspective, take action. You can’t think your way into the right action; you have to act your way into the right thinking. ^[2]

Reviews[link]

In reviewing the work, Booklist remarked that "Kihn's got a great ear for dialogue - and a comedic sense worthy of Second City", while Publishers Weekly stated that "like an above-average Adam Sandler movie, this mix of racy humor and overt sentiment will probably get both a bigger audience, and less credit, than it deserves."^[4]

Robert Sutton, author of New York Times bestseller The No Asshole Rule gave the book a positive review, declaring "A$$hole is one of the funniest books I've ever read, and "remarkably useful in a sick sort of way."^[5] Additionally, Rory Freeman, co-author of The New York Times bestseller Skinny Bitch, described the text as "remarkably profane, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly sentimental", while John Alexander, author of How To Become an Alpha Male, opined that "through humor and vivid storytelling, Martin Kihn takes you through that journey until he discovers an astonishing lesson."^[5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Text Preview via Google Books
• Martin Kihn Parody Infomercial for A$$hole
• Original Theme Song for the Book ~ "Too Nice Asshole"
• Video: Martin Kihn on Fox Business with Anna Gilligan
• Make Enemies and Alienate People by Brian Braiker, Newsweek magazine, April 14, 2008
• Isn't It Ironic - Not? by Martin Kihn, The Huffington Post, May 21, 2008

Charles Dudley Warner, circa 1897

Charles Dudley Warner from Who-When-What Book, 1900

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Biography[link]

Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. ^[1]

He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago (1856–1860); was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861–1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. ^[1] He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, with Mark Twain as a pall bearer and Joseph Twichell officiating.^[2]

Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870; first published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding and refined humour and mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of outdoor things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style, qualities that suggest the work of Washington Irving. Charles Dudley Warner is known for making the famous remark,

Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. ^[3]

This was quoted by Mark Twain in a lecture, and is still commonly misattributed to Twain.^[4]

Selected list of works[link]

• Saunterings (descriptions of travel in eastern Europe, 1872)
• BackLog Studies (1872)
• Baddeck, And That Sort of Thing (1874), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere
• My Winter on the Nile (1876)
• In the Levant (1876)
• In the Wilderness (1878)
• A Roundabout Journey, in Europe (1883)
• On Horseback, in the Southern States (1888)
• Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada (1889)
• Our Italy, southern California (1891)
• The Relation of Literature to Life (1896)
• The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote (1897)
• Fashions in Literature (1902)

He also edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving (1881), and edited a large Library of the World's Best Literature.

Essays

• As We Were Saying (1891)
• As We Go (1893)

Novels

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (in collaboration with Mark Twain, 1873)
• Their Pilgrimage (1886)
• A Little Journey in the World (1889)
• The Golden House (1894)
• That Fortune (1889).

Other publications[link]

• Annie A. Fields, Charles Dudley Warner (Garden City, New York, 1904)
• passim, A. B. Paine, Mark Twain (three volumes, New York, 1912)
• Brander Matthews, Aspects of Fiction (new edition, New York, 1902)
• Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle, by Kenneth R. Andrews. 288 pgs. Harvard UP, 1950. Has a lot on Warner, including a complete bib of his works.
• Biographical Sketch of Warner by T. R. Lounsbury, in the 15th volume of the 15-volume Collected Writings of Warner; Hartford, Conn: American Publishing Co., 1904. http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/3/1/1/3117/3117.htm

References[link]

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Warner, Charles Dudley". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links[link]

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• Charles Dudley Warner page with links to his works available on the web.
• CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER by Mrs. James T. Fields. New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1904. Contemporary Men of Letters Series.
• Works by Charles Dudley Warner at Project Gutenberg