Jenna Johnson will join Farrar, Straus as executive editor on June 6, after 14 years at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Also, Jeremy Davies moves to FSG as editor on May 9, from Dalkey Archive Press, where he began in 2005. In other moves, Emi Ikkanda will join Spiegel & Grau as a senior editor on May 16, coming over after 8 years at Holt. Jessica Sit joins Paper Latern Lit as editor. She was previously at Atheneum. Chris Smith has been promoted to publicist for Viking and Penguin Books. Saraciea Fennell will join Little, Brown Children’s as publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Scholastic. NY Magazine has an […]
Archives for May 2016
Sample 60 Buzz Books Ahead of BEA
It’s hard to believe that it has been 5 years since since we published our first free Buzz Books ebook anthology, shortly before BEA, and today we are proud to release two new collections, Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter with substantial pre-publication excerpts from 40 highly anticipated adult titles, and Buzz Books 2016 YA, with another 20 great young adult excerpts. We invented these samplers as a way of amplifying the “buzz books” concept beyond the limitations of a few convention speaking slots, and to give showgoers some direct experience with the text (rather than just the promotion). We were also anticipating […]
May Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for May is Siddhartha Mukherjee’s The Gene and their featured debut is the Indie Next No. 1 pick, Elizabeth J. Church’s The Atomic Weight of Love. Six of the nine other selections for best books of May are Spring/Summer Buzz Books titles. (We’re releasing the new fall/winter Buzz Books today, though you may still be able to find our sampler at your ebookseller of choice and check out these May picks.) Everyone Brave is Forgiven, Chris Cleave LaRose, Louise Erdrich Valiant Ambition, Nathaniel Philbrick Girls on Fire, Robin Wasserman The Sport of Kings, C. E. Morgan The […]
People: Gelbman to SMP, and More
Former Berkley Publishing Group president Leslie Gelbman has joined St. Martin’s Press as executive editor-at-large, effective immediately. The move was widely expected since the announced signing of Nora Roberts – whom Gelbman edited – by SMP in early March. In her 27 years at Penguin, Gelbman also edited such authors as Ken Follett, Patricia Cornwell, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Julie Garwood. SMP president and publisher Sally Richardson said in the announcement: “We have long admired Leslie’s legendary gift for acquiring and editing some of the most popular storytellers of our time and she will continue to do the same for us. I […]