At Public Affairs, Colleen Lawrie will join the company as a senior editor on March 9. She was most recently an editor at Harper Collins. Tony Forde starts work there as a publicist on March 18. He was most recently an associate publicist at Twelve. Molly Fonseca will start as marketing manager at Flatiron Books on March 23, reporting to associate publisher Liz Keenan. She has been at Penguin Random House in the international sales department. Steven Boriack joins Flatiron as senior publicist on March 30, reporting to publicity director Marlena Bittner. Chelsey Heller has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as subsidiary rights director and will also be handling foreign rights […]
Archives for March 2015
People, Etc.
Amy Williams has resigned from McCormick & Williams and will start her own agency, The Williams Company. McCormick & Williams will be renamed McCormick Literary and will continue to operate from its current offices under David McCormick. At Scribner, Kara Watson has been promoted to the dual role of editor and associate marketing director. Robert Riger will leave his position as vp, director, Pimsleur Foreign Language Programs at Simon & Schuster Audio in mid-March, Publishing Trends reports. He can be reached at RPRiger@gmail.com. The UK office that Maria Campbell Associates opened quietly in London in May 2013 headed by Katie McCalmont continues to grow. Naja […]
Awards: BN Discover Winners, McCracken Takes Story Prize, LAT Nominees
The Barnes & Noble Discover Great Awards went to All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld (Knopf) (a Publishers Lunch Buzz Book a year ago prior to publication) and Badluck Way by Bryce Andrews (Atria). Elizabeth McCracken has won The Story Prize for her collection Thunderstruck (Dial Press). The Los Angeles Times announced finalists in 10 categories for their annual book prizes, to be awarded April 18. LeVar Burton will receive their Innovators Award “for inspiring generations of readers with Reading Rainbow.” Among the nominees are: Fiction Donald Antrim, The Emerald Light in the Air: Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Jesse Ball, […]
Corporate: Coffee House Press Partners With Emily Books; The Readers Guild; and More
The special committee appointed by the Books-A-Million board to examine the Anderson family’s offer to buy out other shareholders and take the company private has hired Houlihan Lokey as its financial adviser. Coffee House Press is partnering with Brooklyn-based feminist publishing project Emily Books, on an imprint for “books that speak to the aesthetic excellence, experimental boldness, and social concerns of both organizations.” Coffee House will publish two Emily Books titles a year, starting with the spring 2016 publication of Jade Sharma’s debut novel, Problems. Businessman Fred Tarter, in publishing since 1962 and the creator of enterprises from Hootenanny Magazine to the Burger King Kids’ […]
People, Etc.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has hired Leigh Zarelli as svp of consumer brands, driving the strategic direction and expansion of direct-to-consumer product offerings. They have also hired Caroline Fraser as vp of program development and acquisition, spearheading new content development for the consumer market and identifying new media channels for HMH’s stable of iconic brands and characters. Zarelli was at AOL; Fraser was at Scholastic Media — and both will report to evp and chief of consumer brands and strategy, CJ Kettler. In the Random House publicity department, Jennifer Garza has been promoted to assistant director; Michelle Jasmine moves up to publicity manager; and Jenna Friedman has been […]
BEA’s Three Panels of Buzz Books
BEA has announced the fall books to be featured on the convention’s three Buzz Books panels in May. The adult panel is evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction. There’s one debut novel (from Stegner Fellow and Paris Review Plimpton Prize winner Ottessa Moshfegh); one adult debut (YA author Ruth Warburton, writing as Ruth Ware — for the debut title from Gallery’s Scout Press); and one novel that’s been buzzed since it was sold in fall 2013, from Garth Risk Hallberg, already promoted as a Winter Institute buzz book and now back for more: Adult City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf) […]