David Hawk joins Ten Speed Press on July 6 as senior marketing and publicity manager. Previously he was a marketing and publicity manager at Chronicle Books, specializing in food and drink titles.
Yuka Igarashi will join Catapult as web editor-in-chief in August. Previously she was managing editor at Granta.
Awards
Deborah Johnson has won the Harper Lee Prize in Legal Fiction for her novel THE SECRET OF MAGIC (Berkley).
The inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, recognizing a “promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue,” is going to Adriana E. Ramírez for “Dead Boys.”
Picks
Costco’s July pick is THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN by Paula Hawkins while Target has chosen THE ICE CREAM QUEEN OF ORCHARD STREET by Susan Jane Gilman for its July selection.