Elizabeth Schaefer will join Del Rey as senior editor on December 14. Previously she was an editor at Scholastic. Lindsay Walter-Greaney has joined Little, Brown Children’s as associate managing editor. She was most recently senior production editor at Scholastic. In Sweden, publisher Lind & Co. and literary agent Carina Brandt at Brandt New Agency have partnered on Stockholm Noir Agency, a new international literary agency focusing on Nordic crime and suspense novels, headed by Jenni Brunn (previously a project coordinator at Lind & Co.) As part of the joint venture, Stockholm Noir will represent Lind & Co.’s list. KF Literary Scouting […]
Archives for December 2015
Strout Leads January Library Reads List
Elizabeth Strout‘s new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton is the No. 1 pick for the January Library Reads list. The list also includes the January No. 1 Indie Next Pick The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue (Delacorte) Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell (Bantam) Helen Ellis, American Housewife (Doubleday) Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling (Doubleday) Sally Hepworth, The Things We Keep (St. Martin’s) Jane Cleland, Ornaments of Death (Minotaur) […]
Balcells Told VF None of The Buyout Offers Was Good Enough
Former FSG editor Paul Elie’s Vanity Fair article ostensibly about the publication history of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE also turns out to be the last published interview given by Carmen Balcells, seven weeks before her death earlier this fall. In it she explains in further detail why the “memorandum of understanding” between Balcells and the Wylie agency fell apart: “Balcells clearly trusted Wylie enough to have taken things that far. So why wasn’t the deal done? Because, Balcells said, she surmised that Wylie anticipated closing the office on the Diagonal in Barcelona and folding the Balcells […]
People
Miriam Altshuler will join DeFiore and Company on January 1. She has run her own agency for the past 21 years, working with authors including including Robb Forman Dew, Elizabeth Rosner, Maya Lang, Andrew Carroll, Marja Mills, Wednesday Martin, and the late Walter Dean Myers. Also joining DeFiore and Company is Reiko Davis, Altshuler’s associate for the last four years, where she will take on some new duties while continuing to develop her own list of clients. Altshuler said in the announcement: “After running my own agency for many years, I am excited to join a company where I will have […]
People, Etc.
Sarah Odedina has resigned from her job as children’s publisher at Oneworld after seven months, the Bookseller reports. She tells the magazine she was “not given the support or trust that would be essential to build a successful list.” Oneworld publisher Juliet Mabey says, “We were very disappointed to hear that Sarah has decided to leave after 7 months at the helm of Rock the Boat [the children’s and YA imprint], but we wish her all the best with her new magazine venture, and we will be looking for a new children’s editor in the new year.” Matt Baldacci will […]
Amazon Bestselling New Books for 2015, and Apple’s Best
Amazon has released their annual package of the year’s bestselling, newly-published books for 2015, across multiple categories. Note in particular that, as usual, the publicized lists cover books published during 2015 only. So if you are interested in the titles that sold the best at Amazon during the year, you want to refer to their product bestseller lists that show the most popular print books and ebooks. In the lists released today, these are their top 20 new books for 2015, with combined print and ebook sales: 1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins 2. Grey: Fifty Shades […]