INDUSTRY NEWS

ALPSP Rising Star Awards 2024: Winners Announced

10 JULY 2024

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, is delighted to confirm the five winners of the ALPSP Rising Star Awards 2024:

·        Hazel Rowland, Associate Marketing Manager, IOP Publishing

·        Anna Savage, Publishing Executive, BMJ

·        Ella Gibbs, Journals Executive, Bristol University Press

·        Heather Townsend, Sales and Customer Service Coordinator, Bristol University Press

·        Melody (Zhuxin) Zhang, Associate Publisher, Wiley

Freeman Brandon Millan to Produce Alexander Payne’s Documentary Directorial Debut

5 JULY 2024

On the heels of The Holdovers, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne has found his next project ,the story of Jeanine Basinger, "a supernova in the firmament of cinema" and it will mark the esteemed filmmaker’s documentary directorial debut. Brandon Millan is set to produce with New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson. (Their publishing shingle, Felix Farmer Press, will also release an updated version of Basinger’s classic 1994 book American Cinema under the new title I, The Audience.) They told The Hollywood Reporter, “We are so excited to help the greatest filmmaker of his generation tell the story of the greatest film historian of hers.”

Freeman Derwin Mak publishes new science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story book.

3 JULY 2024

From distant stars to a Cocoa Beach Hooters, Derwin Mak's short fiction takes readers through tales of mystery, wonder, and horror. Ethnic traditions meld with fantastic visions in these twelve stories about memory fabric, eldritch gods during the Salem witch trials, and of course, Mecha-Jesus, Japan's very own android kami.

Foreword by Liana Kerzner, award-winning comedy writer and co-editor of Wrestling With Gods: Tesseracts Eighteen

Published by Brain Lag Books of Milton, Ontario, Canada

ALPSP Impact and Innovation Awards 2024 Finalists Revealed

1 JULY 2024

ALPSP, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, is delighted to confirm the finalists shortlisted for:

• The ALPSP Impact Award, which recognizes initiatives, projects, campaigns or collaborations demonstrating beneficial impact within scholarly publishing and communications.
• The ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, which celebrates any new development, product, service, launch or project which is both innovative and of significant value to scholarly communication.

The Impact and Award and Innovation in Publishing Award 2024 are sponsored by PA Editorial.