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April 14, 2015
By Sarah Weinman

Morgan Parker joins Little A as editor, acquiring fiction and poetry. She was previously education director at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) and poetry editor of Coconut Magazine and The Offing.

At Abrams, Chris Blank has been promoted to director of online marketing operations, and Monica Shah moves up to director of special markets. In addition, Jody Mosley is moving over to the children’s department in the newly created position of associate publisher as of May 1. She is currently director of special markets.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Liz Anderson has been promoted to social media manager and Leila Meglio moves up to publicity associate.

In the UK, James Horobin will join Bonnier Publishing as executive director, sales and marketing in September. Previously he was group sales, marketing and publicity director at Simon & Schuster UK.

Awards
The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced Monday, with the winner to be named in June:

Rachel Cusk, Outline
Kamila Shamshie, A God in Every Stone
Laline Paull, The Bees
Ali Smith, How to be Both
Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread
Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests

Announcements
Sherman Alexie’s THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE ADVENTURES OF A PART-TIME INDIAN topped the ALA’s frequently challenged books list for 2014.

3M is expanding its Cloud Library into the UK and Australia.

Trajectory has signed digital distribution deals in China with Macmillan,  Gardners Books, and MIT Press to populate content for the Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi.

Ingram Content Group has expanded its print-on-demand and distribution reach to South Korea through a deal with Korean Studies Information Co.

Filed Under: Awards, Distribution, Free, International News, Personnel

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