Following the unqualified success of our dedicated Young Adult Buzz Books samplers, we are expanding the family with the next logical collection: Buzz Books: Romance. With substantial excerpts from 20 forthcoming romance titles, this free ebook publishes just in time for the big Romance Writers of America annual conference (starting July 13 in San Diego). Ten of our featured authors will be in attendance at RWA, where the organizers are joining us in promoting the free downloads. Available today from your ebookstore of choice, Buzz Books: Romance has already gotten off to a great start with an exclusive pre-publication offering […]
Archives for July 2016
Bookselling: BN Fires “Under 50” IT People, Portland’s New Indie, and More
Even as Barnes & Noble continues to promise fixes to their botched website relaunch, the company is laying off what spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating called “less than 50 people” at their Westbury, Long Island IT office. Keating wrote to Newsday, “We have a very large IT department in Westbury that supports our stores and financial teams. We had some workforce reductions in specific areas of our IT Group in Westbury to streamline operations.” That facility apparently receives discounted electricity “under the state Power Authority’s ReCharge NY program, which is intended to retain jobs in the state.” Separately, Longtime booksellers Emily Russo and Josh Christie […]
People, Etc.
Deb Brody will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director for lifestyle & culinary on July 18. Previously she was executive editor at William Morrow. Michael Strother has joined Harlequin Teen as editor. Previously he was an editor at Simon Pulse. Jermey Matthews will join MIT Press as acquisitions editor, physical sciences, engineering and math. Previously he was books editor at Physics Today. Patricia Kelly has been appointed general manager of Lonely Planet’s Oakland, CA location, in addition to her current role as director of sales, Americas. Cliff Manko has joined Beacon Press as chief financial officer. He was svp finance […]
More July Bookseller Picks
iBooks selected recommended July titles (show here for fiction, nonfiction and YA): Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty Underground Airlines, Ben Winters Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers The Light of Paris, Eleanor Brown Jonathan Unleashed, Meg Rosoff You’ll Grow Out of It, Jessi Klein Tong Wars, Scott Seligman Bobby Kennedy, Larry Tye My Father Before Me, Chris Forhan How to Be a Person in the World, Heather Havrilesky The Shattered Lens, Brandon Sanderson Signs of You, Emily France The Crimson Skew, S.E. Grove The Awakening of Ren Crown, Anne Zoelle A World Without You, Beth Revis And Barnes & Noble’s top 10 fiction list for July […]
People, Etc.
At Scribner, Shannon Welch has been promoted to executive editor. At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Danielle Burby has been promoted to agent and foreign rights manager. Paula Canal will join Indent Literary Agency as a literary agent and foreign rights director. She has spent the past 17 years as foreign rights manager at Anagrama and will continue to handle all foreign rights for the company from her post at Indent. At New World Library, Jason Gardner has been promoted to executive editor. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Cheryl Ringer has been promoted to editor, business group. At the UK’s Folio Prize, executive […]
People
At William Morrow and Avon, Amanda Bergeron has been promoted to senior editor, while Nicole Fischer moves up to associate editor. At Viking and Penguin, Shannon Twomey has been promoted to associate director of publicity, and Kristin Matzen has been promoted to publicity manager. At Harlequin, Joanne Grant has been promoted to editorial director, Harlequin Mills & Boon; Bryony Green moves up to executive editor, UK acquisitions; and Flo Nicoll has been promoted to senior editor, Harlequin Presents. At Beacon Press, Caitlin Meyer has been promoted to publicity manager and Nicholas DiSabatino has been promoted to publicist. Alice Seiler joins Chronicle as designer, children’s on July […]