At New Leaf Literary & Media, Jaida Temperly has been promoted to agent. Morrissey‘s novel LIST OF THE LOST — unavailable in the US — won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the UK’s Literary Review. The AP profiles independent booksellers Gayle Shanks (Changing Hands), Mitchell Kaplan (Books & Books), and Kris Kleindienst (Left Bank Books) as typical “baby boomers who founded [book]stores with little sense of how to run a business, but a profound sense of purpose” — who “are now pillars of a smaller but still vital independent-bookstore community, and models for the wave of younger owners.” Coming Attractions Barnes & […]
Archives for December 2015
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Hilary Redmon will move over to the Random House imprint on December 14 as executive editor, reporting to Andy Ward. Redmon has been at Ecco for the past four years, and will acquire and edit history, science, religion, memoir, and narrative nonfiction titles. At Penguin Random House’s international sales & marketing group, Filipe Silva is named associate director, Latin American and Spanish-language sales. At Sourcebooks, Anna Michels is being promoted to editor, and Liz Otte is being promoted to national accounts manager – gift and regional. At Open Road, Rachel Krupitsky has been promoted to senior marketing manager, overseeing marketing of […]
Goodreads Choice, LibraryReads’ Favorites, Amazon December, and Other Picks
Goodreads announced the voting for their Best Books of 2015 across all categories. The top vote-getter by a margin of more than two to one — with over 100,000 reader votes — was The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, topping their mystery & thriller category. Readers also picked: Historical Fiction: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Fiction: Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee Young Adult: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven Romance: Confess by Colleen Hoover Science Fiction: Golden Son by Pierce Brown Fantasy: Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman Horror: Saint Odd by Dean Koontz […]