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Zando
Zando is an American independent publisher based in New York City. Zando publishes literary fiction, non-fiction and young adult books. The company consists of imprints Zando, Zando Young Readers, SJP Lit, Gillian Flynn Books, Crooked Media Reads, Sweet July Books, Atlantic Editions, Get Lifted Books and Hillman Grad Books. History The company was founded in 2020 by Molly Stern, former publisher at Crown. Zando is known for partnering with high-profile individuals, companies and brands to publish and promote books. Zando is distributed by Ingram Content Group. Publishing Authors published by Zando include Samantha Allen, Steve Almond, Karamo Brown, Margot Douaihy, Maurene Goo, Liv Little, among others. Zando's publishing partners include Sarah Jessica Parker, The Atlantic, Ayesha Curry, Lena Waithe, John Legend, Crooked Media, and Gillian Flynn Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Flynn
Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels, '' Sharp Objects'' (2006), '' Dark Places'' (2009), and '' Gone Girl'' (2012), which are all critically acclaimed. Her books have been published in 40 languages and according to ''The Washington Post'', as of 2016 ''Gone Girl'' alone has sold more than 15 million copies. Flynn is the screenwriter of the 2014 film adaptation of ''Gone Girl'', directed by David Fincher. For the script, she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, among others. The author also wrote and produced the HBO limited series adaptation of '' Sharp Objects''—for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild of America Award—and co-wrote with director Steve McQueen t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurene Goo
Maurene Goo is an American author of young adult fiction and comics. Her books have been translated into twelve languages and two of her novels, ''I Believe in a Thing Called Love'' and ''Somewhere Only We Know'', have been optioned to be made into feature films by Netflix. Life and education Maurene Goo was born in Los Angeles and raised in Glendale, California. She studied communication and English literature at UC San Diego. She has a master's in publishing, writing, and literature from Emerson College. Prior to publishing her debut novel, ''Since You Asked'', she worked in publishing and design. ''Career'' Goo published her first young adult novel, ''Since You Asked,'' in 2013 with Scholastic. Her sophomore novel, ''I Believe in A Thing Called Love'', was released in 2017, followed by ''The Way You Make Me Feel'' (2018), and ''Somewhere Only We Know'' (2019). In 2021, Goo completed a five-issue run for Marvel Comics, writing Korean-American superhero Silk, illustrated by Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Douaihy
Margot Douaihy, Ph.D, is an American writer whose works include ''Scorched Grace'' (Gillian Flynn Books, 2023), ''Scranton Lace'' (Clemson University Press), ''Girls Like You'' (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, ''Bandit / Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr'', and the chapbook ''i would ruby if i could'' (Factory Hollow Press). She is a Co-Editor of the Cambridge University Press ''Elements in Crime Narratives Series'' and the Editor of ''Northern New England Review.'' Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour, ''The Wisconsin Review'', ''Colorado Review'', ''The South Carolina Review'', ''Diode Editions'', ''Pittsburgh Post Gazette'', ''The Tahoma Literary Review'', ''The Madison Review,'' ''The Florida Review'', ''Portland Review'', ''The Tishman Review'', ''The Petigru Review'', ''Petrichor'', and ''The Adirondack Review''. Books ''Scorched Grace'' (Gillian Flynn Books, 2023): Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Leigh Allen
Samantha Leigh Allen is an American journalist and author. Allen worked as a senior reporter for ''The Daily Beast'' and now works as a freelance journalist. In 2019 she published the nonfiction book '' Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States''. Early life and education Allen was born in California and grew up in New Jersey. She was raised in a conservative, Mormon household. As a young adult she served as a Mormon missionary. She officially left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 2008 and transferred from Brigham Young University to Rutgers University later that year. She came out as a transgender woman in 2012. She has a Ph.D. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a certificate in Psychoanalytic Studies from Emory University. She was a recipient of a George W. Woodruff Fellowship while at Emory. In 2013 she received the John Money Fellowship for Scholars of Sexology from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington. In 2014 she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Almond
Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966) is an American short-story writer, essayist and author of ten books, three of which are self-published. Life Almond was raised in Palo Alto, California, graduated from Henry M. Gunn High School and received his undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. He spent seven years as a newspaper reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the ''Miami New Times''. Almond lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children. Literary work Almond's 2014 book ''Against Football'', which documents his growing disillusionment with American football, derived from two pieces written for ''The New York Times''. Almond's second book, '' Candyfreak'' (2005) was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller and won the American Library Association Alex Award and was named the Booksense Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year. Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. He has published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Rivers Distribution
Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries. Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries. History The Ingram Content Group was formed, in 2009, when Ingram Lightning Group merged with Ingram Digital Group. Ingram Content Group's operating units are Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC. During 1999 and 2000, Ingram Industries negotiated a sale to Barnes & Noble which was ultimately withdrawn after pressure from independent bookstores and the American Booksellers Association. In July 2006, Ingram Industries acquired VitalSource Technologies, Inc, which it later sold to Francisco Partners in April 2021. In June 2014, the company, in conjunction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingram Content Group
Ingram Content Group is an American service provider to the book publishing industry, based in La Vergne, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Ingram Industries. Shawn Morin is CEO, and John R. Ingram is chairman of Ingram Industries. History The Ingram Content Group was formed, in 2009, when Ingram Lightning Group merged with Ingram Digital Group. Ingram Content Group's operating units are Ingram Book Company, Ingram International Inc., Ingram Library Services Inc., Ingram Publisher Services Inc., Ingram Periodicals Inc., Ingram Digital, Lightning Source Inc., Spring Arbor Distributors Inc., and Tennessee Book Company LLC. During 1999 and 2000, Ingram Industries negotiated a sale to Barnes & Noble which was ultimately withdrawn after pressure from independent bookstores and the American Booksellers Association. In July 2006, Ingram Industries acquired VitalSource Technologies, Inc, which it later sold to Francisco Partners in April 2021. In June 2014, the company, in conjunc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karamo Brown
Karamo Karega Brown (born November 2, 1980) is an American television host, reality television personality, author, actor, and activist. Brown began his career in 2004 on the MTV reality show '' The Real World: Philadelphia'', becoming the first openly gay black man cast on a reality show. He currently stars as the culture expert in the Netflix series '' Queer Eye''. In September 2022, Brown began hosting an eponymous talk show titled '' Karamo'' for NBCUniversal. Personal life Brown was born in Houston, Texas and has three older sisters. He is of Jamaican and Cuban descent. He came out as gay at age 15. Brown grew up in Coral Springs, Florida and graduated from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 1999. Following the shooting at the school in 2018, Brown became an active member of the Never Again MSD movement started by the students, advocating for new gun control legislation. He graduated from Florida A&M University, a historically black university, and worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Little
Liv Little (born Olivia Little) is the founder of ''gal-dem'', an English online and print magazine run by women of colour. In 2016, she was listed as one of the BBC's 100 Women (BBC), 100 Women. Life Little was born in January 1994 to a Jamaican-born father and mother of Guyana, Guyanese descent. She was raised in South-East London and attended Blackheath High School and completed A-Levels at Newstead Wood School, Newstead Wood School for Girls. During a year out between school and university she completed a 12-week placement in India as a Health and Livelihoods Coordinator with Restless Development, a branch within the International Citizen Service. She later studied Politics and Sociology at the University of Bristol, graduating in 2016 with First-Class Honours. ''gal-dem'' Little founded ''gal-dem'' while at university after being frustrated with the lack of diversity at her university. The ''gal-dem'' team consists of more than 70 women of colour, most of whom are based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker (born March 25, 1965) is an American actress and television producer. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including six Golden Globe Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards. ''Time'' magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. She is known for her role as Carrie Bradshaw on the HBO television series ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004), for which she won two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. The character was widely popular during the airing of the series and was later recognized as one of the greatest female characters in American television. She later reprised the role in films ''Sex and the City'' (2008) and ''Sex and the City 2'' (2010), as well as the revival seasons of '' And Just Like That...'' (2021–present). Parker made her Broadway debut at the age of 11 in the 1976 revival of '' The Innocents'', before going on to star i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Atlantic
''The Atlantic'' is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. It was founded in 1857 in Boston, as ''The Atlantic Monthly'', a literary and cultural magazine that published leading writers' commentary on education, the abolition of slavery, and other major political issues of that time. Its founders included Francis H. Underwood and prominent writers Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Greenleaf Whittier. James Russell Lowell was its first editor. In addition, ''The Atlantic Monthly Almanac'' was an annual almanac published for ''Atlantic Monthly'' readers during the 19th and 20th centuries. A change of name was not officially announced when the format first changed from a strict monthly (appearing 12 times a year) to a slightly lower frequency. It was a mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayesha Curry
Ayesha Disa Curry (née Alexander; born March 23, 1989) is a Canadian-American actress, cookbook author, and cooking television personality and the wife of basketball player Stephen Curry. After guest roles in several television shows and movies, she began hosting her own show, ''Ayesha's Homemade'' ( ''Ayesha's Home Kitchen''), on Food Network. Despite not having any professional chef training, her culinary career started in 2014, when she prepared her first meal as a YouTube demonstration on her channel ''Little Lights of Mine''. Curry is the author of several videos on her channel Little Lights of Mine and has written two cookbooks, ''The Seasoned Life'', published in 2016, and ''The Full Plate'', published in 2020. Career At age 12, Curry acted as the love interest in the music video for "Too Young for Love" by Suga Prince (now known as Sevn Thomas). After graduating from Weddington High School, Curry moved to Los Angeles to become an actress, appearing, mostly, in bit par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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