• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Awards, Etc.

March 12, 2013
By Sarah Weinman

Edward Necarsulmer IV and Eleanor Jackson have joined Dunow, Carlson & Lerner. Necarsulmer was previously an agent at MacIntosh & Otis, and will focus on representing middle grade, YA, and adult literary fiction. Jackson was most recently an agent at Markson Thoma, which last week saw partner Geri Thoma move to Writers House.

The UK’s Carnegie Medal for children’s literature features a powerhouse shortlist that includes Costa winner Sally Gardner, Printz winner Nick Lake and medalist Elizabeth Wein:

THE WEIGHT OF WATER, Sarah Crossan
A GREYHOUND OF A GIRL, Roddy Doyle
MAGGOT MOON, Sally Gardner
IN DARKNESS, Nick Lake
WONDER, R. J. Palacio
MIDWINTERBLOOD, Marcus Sedgwick
A BOY AND A BEAR IN A BOAT, Dave Shelton
CODE NAME VERITY, Elizabeth Wein

Also announced was the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist for illustrated children’s books. Both winners will be named June 19:

Lunchtime, Rebecca Cobb
Again!, Emily Gravett
Oh No, George!, Chris Haughton
I Want My Hat Back, Jon Klassen
Pirates ‘n’ Pistols, Chris Mould
King Jack and the Dragon, Helen Oxenbury (illustrator) and Peter Bently (author)
Black Dog, by Levi Pinfold
Just Ducks!, Salvatore Rubbino (illustrator) and Nicola Davies (author), Walker Books

Kate Atkinson’s novel LIFE AFTER LIFE, which will publish on April 2, has been named Barnes & Noble’s newest BN Recommends pick. It’s also one of the 28 titles featured in our BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Spring/Summer–download your free copy if you haven’t already. Other Buzz Books publishing in March include DECISIVE by Chip and Dan Heath; Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Anne Fowler; and A TALE FOR THE TIME BEING by Ruth Ozeki (out today).

Edie Reinhardt has joined LID Publishing as general manager for LID US.

Filed Under: Agency News, Authors, Awards, Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • UK Publisher Peter Usborne, 85, Died "Unexpectedly but Peacefully" March 30, 2023 Bookseller
  • Dublin Literary Award Shortlist Announced March 30, 2023 Prize site
  • Leigh Bardugo Signs with WME for Film/TV Representation March 29, 2023 Variety
  • Solid State Books Workers Announce Plans to Unionize March 28, 2023 Union website
  • Following Sale, America's Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Including All of ATK Kids Staff March 28, 2023 Union instagram post
  • Acquire and Fire: Hachette UK In Consultations to Eliminate About Half the Staff of Welbeck March 28, 2023 Bookseller
  • Jefferson, de Kretser Win Folio Prizes March 27, 2023 Prize announcement
  • Harper UK Edits Agatha Christie Novels to Remove "Offensive" Language March 27, 2023 The Guardian
  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.