Hudson Booksellers released their annual lists of top books, picking Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See as their “book of the year.” Rounding out their top 10 for fiction are: Under the Wide and Starry Sky, Nancy Horan Wolf in White, John Darnielle Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood Bird Box, Josh Malerman The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness Still Life with Bread Crumbs, Anna Quindlen The Martian, Andrew Weir Their other top picks are: Nonfiction New Life, No Instructions, Gail Caldwell Internal Medicine, Terrence Holt The Human Age, Diane Ackerman […]
Archives for November 2014
People
At Little, Brown Children’s, Alvina Ling has been promoted to vp, editor-in-chief, overseeing the publishing program (excluding licensing). Pam Gruber moves up to senior editor; and Allison Moore is now associate editor. Jennifer McClelland-Smith will join group as marketing coordinator on November 10. She was most recently an administrative assistant temp for HBG’s international sales department. Morgan Doremus has joined Sourcebooks as publicity & marketing manager, Sourcebooks Casablanca. Previously she was marketing manager at Hachette’s Forever imprint. Veterans Maha Khalil and Rodger Weinfeld will join Skyhorse Publishing, as part of the publisher’s “strategic restructuring plan to build teams with expertise to support the overall growth and continued success […]
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Sherlock Holmes Case
On Monday the Supreme Court declined to hear the final appeal from the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle, which claims the Sherlock Holmes characters remain protected by copyright because of 10 original stories published after 1923. A District Court ruled against the estate in late 2013, and this June an appeals court ruling went even further in affirming that the Sherlock Holmes characters and stories written prior to 1923 are in the public domain. The original suit was brought by Leslie Klinger, seeking clarification after the Conan Doyle Estate demanded (and was paid) $5000 in licensing fees for an anthology of new fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes […]
People, Etc.
Christine Kopprasch has joined Flatiron Books as senior editor. Previously she was an editor at Crown. Caitlin O’Shaughnessy has been named marketing manager at Penguin Press, beginning December 8. Previously she was an associate editor at Viking. At Zondervan, Tom Dean has been promoted to vp, marketing. Rob Wall has joined little bee books as senior designer. Previously he held positions at Blue Apple Books and Wiley. Megan Sullivan has joined Penguin as sales representative for New England. Previously she was publicity manager at David R. Godine. In the UK, Sally Dwyer has joined Quarto in the newly created role […]
November Picks: Amazon, iBooks and Costco
In the new monthly lists, Amazon makes Stephen King’s Revival their spotlight pick for November and Lev Golinkin’s memoir A Backpack, A Bear and Eight Crates of Vodka is their featured debut. The rest of their top books for the month are: Fields of Blood, Karen Armstrong The Laughing Monsters, Denis Johnson Lives in Ruins, Marilyn Johnson Us, David Nicholls Napoleon, Andrew Roberts There Was a Little Girl, Brooke Shields Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford The Happiest People in the World, Brock Clarke Apple’s iBooks Store also lists King, Johnson and […]