Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Brenda Marsh has left her position as vp, author relations, Publishing Trends reports. She can be reached at brendasmarsh@gmail.com. Founder of Hanser Berlin Elisabeth Ruge will leave the company at the end of 2013 for what she characterized as "personal reasons." Ruge, who founded the imprint at…
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People: Twelve Adds An Editorial Director, As Does Knopf, and More
Following Deb Futter's appointment as publisher of Grand Central's Twelve imprint in April, Sean Desmond will join the line in the new position of editorial director, starting May 28. He is currently an executive editor at Crown. Futter says in the announcement, "When I became Publisher of Twelve, my first…
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Robin Wolfson has been named to the new position of vp, Random House Speakers Bureau, assuming central leadership of the five-year-old division, which has been managed in decentralized fashion up until now, with multiple divisional directors for the company's different publishing groups. Wolfson's primary responsibilities are strategic oversight and business development; those…
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Benjamin Alire Saenz, 58, became the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize on Saturday, for EVERYTHING BEGINS AND ENDS AT THE KENTUCKY CLUB. Published by Cinco Puntos, it's a collection of seven loosely linked stories. After putting Charlie Lovett's forthcoming THE BOOKMAN'S TALE: A Novel of Obsession…
Meyer, Percy and Hosseini Among Monthly Bookseller Picks
The ABA named Philipp Meyer's THE SON their No. 1 pick for June. That's three No. 1s in a row for the Spring/Summer edition of our Buzz Books 2013 sampler (following Anthony Marra and Kate Atkinson). There are 4 other Indie Next June picks that you can preview right now…
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Longtime Author Solutions ceo Kevin Weiss is leaving the company for a new position (to be announced separately next week). President of Penguin International Andrew Phillips is taking over as ceo of Author Solutions, which Penguin acquired last July. Phillips led the launch of Partridge, the Penguin Author Solutions partnership…
People: Maja Thomas to Leave HBG After 22 Years
Senior vice president of Hachette Digital & Audio Maja Thomas will leave her full-time position at the company after 22 years with Time Warner and then HBG, "for the next exciting chapter of her career." As ceo Michael Pietsch notes, Thomas "has been a pioneer in the creation of HBG's…
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Hannah Wood has moved to Harper as an associate editor. Isaac Fitzgerald will join McSweeney's Publishing as publicity director on May 1. Previously he was managing editor of the literary website The Rumpus. Harper Christian has licensed exclusive rights to sell and distribute print editions of the entire catalog of…
LAT Awards Honor Boo, Caro, Fountain and Shipstead
On Friday night the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards were named. They include: Biography Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (Knopf) Current Interest Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House) Fiction Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) First Fiction Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements (Knopf)…
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