At Bloomsbury, Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to editor, and Melanie Sankel has gone from associate director of sales for Fairchild Books to director, adoption sales at Bloomsbury Academic. After Skyhorse and Start Publishing’s intended joint acquisition of Night Shade Books’ assets ignited public controversy over the original terms of sale (and now, after a revision, the sale “is in a holding pattern right now waiting for all the authors’ feedback”, a Skyhorse spokesperson told us) the two publishers have bought a different science fiction & fantasy publisher, Underland Press, for an undisclosed sum. The deal for the six-year-old press, according […]
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Tracy Sherrod will join Amistad as editorial director on April 22. Previously she was the founder and proprietor of Tracy Sherrod Literary Services, representing Karine Steffans, Katori Hall, Kalisha Buckannon, and others (and prior to that she was an editor at Simon & Schuster). Sonya Safro will join Grand Central as publicity manager. She was previously a senior publicist at the Random House Publishing Group. At the S&S imprint, Nick Greene has been promoted to associate editor and Jonathan Cox moves up to assistant editor.
Awards: Johnson Claims Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013
A year after failing to declare a winner in the fiction category last year (bypassing 2007 Granta Best Young American novelist list member Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, now up for an IMPAC; Denis Johson’s Train Dreams; and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King), the Pulitzer Prize has gone back to normal, naming Adam Johnson as the winner in fiction for The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House). Finalists in fiction included The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur Books) and Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf). The winners in other book categories include: Nonfiction Devil in the Grove: […]
Kobo Launches Bigger High-Res eReader; Scores Hosseini Exclusive in Brazil
Kobo still believes in eInk dedicated readers, reinforced in today’s announcement from the London Book Fair: Later this month they will release an oversized eInk reader with a 6.8-inch display (most other readers have screens that are 6 inches or smaller). They say the 265 dpi device “offers 30 percent more reading surface and the closest experience to print-on-paper,” and with a 1GHz processor they also say it’s “the fastest eReader on the market – 25 percent faster.” Called the Kobo Aura HD, Kobo’s evp and general manager of devices Wayne White calls it “the Porsche of eReaders…designed for those […]
Imprints: Harper UK Adds Digital Romance Line
Following on Avon Impulse and Harper Teen Impulse in the US, Harper UK will launch a digital first women’s fiction and romance imprint in May. Harper Impulse, an imprint of their Harper Fiction division, aims “to find, publish and break new talent from debut authors, and import the hottest trends from the US.” Harper Fiction publishing director Kimberley Young will run the line (she was editorial director at Mills & Book for 12 years), joined by content developer Charlotte Ledger, who worked previously at Chawton House Library as well as Mills & Boon. They invite unrepresented submissions and are looking […]
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At Workman Publishing, Vaughn Andrews will join the company as creative director for the Workman imprint on April 22. Most recently a freelance designer, he worked for 26 years at Harcourt, including serving as executive art director and creative director. Raquel Jaramillo, who has been acting creative director for two years, will return full time to her position as director of children’s publishing. At Touchstone, Jessica Roth has been promoted to publicity manager. At Yale University Press, Jaya Aninda Chatterjee has been promoted to assistant editor for politics and international relations. William Boyd‘s new authorized James Bond novel, publishing this […]