St. Martin’s is launching a crossover, coming-of-age imprint publishing “in and beyond the YA category,” Wednesday Books. Launching in fall 2017 and aiming for 10 to 20 titles a year, it is led by Jennifer Enderlin and editorial director Sara Goodman. SMP will publish Rainbow Rowell, Courtney Summers, Roshani Chokshi, and all of their young adult titles going forward under the Wednesday Books name. As Enderlin notes in the release, it is the first time in 16 years that SMP has launched a new imprint. Goodman adds, “Coming-of-age is a broad category and I’m eager to find titles for both the adult and young adult sides of […]
Archives for October 2016
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Vicki Jaeger has joined Portable Press — part of ReaderLink’s Printers Row Publishing Group — as developmental editor. She was marketing manager at Mattel Consumer Products, and most recently a licensing consultant for entertainment and consumer products companies. At Donaghy Literary Group Valerie Noble has been promoted to senior agent. Amanda Ayers Barnett has joined the company as an agent (she has been a freelance book editor for New York Book Editors), and Alex Franks has joined as a junior agent. The Authors Guild announced that, for the first time since its founding in 1912, it is inviting “emerging writers” who have not yet published a book to join the […]
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Former host of the recently-cancelled The Nightly Show (and author of I’d Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts) Larry Wilmore will host the National Book Awards ceremony on November 16. NBF executive director Lisa Lucas says in the announcement, “Larry Wilmore, who is hilarious, intellectual and well-loved by so many, is the perfect choice to host the awards, remind us of the cultural value of books and writers, and to welcome in new audiences.” At Gallery Books, Meagan Harris has been promoted to publicity manager. Wade Lucas has been promoted to senior agent director, Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau, where he is […]
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Doug Jones has been promoted to the new position of svp, deputy publisher of the Harper group, reporting to Jonathan Burnham. In addition, he will serve as publisher of Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks. All marketing and publicity for the Harper imprints and lines will report to Jones, who has been svp, sales for HarperCollins. Senior vice president, associate publisher Kathy Schneider is leaving the company. Sarah Bedingfield has joined Levine Greenberg Rostan as an associate agent, working with Stephanie Rostan and building a clientele of literary and upmarket commercial fiction authors. She was previously an assistant editor at Crown and Hogarth. Claire Kelley has joined Roost […]
National Book Award Nominates Whitehead, Woodson, Nguyen, DiCamillo and More
The National Book Awards moved up the announcement of their finalists to Thursday (after originally planning to release the news next Thursday) — which will keep these lists from getting overshadowed by the naming of the Nobel laureate for literature on October 13. Fiction Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton) Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking) Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad) Nonfiction Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land (The New Press) Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (Nation Books) Viet Thanh Nguyen, […]
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At Penguin Random House, svp, corporate director business affairs John Schline is stepping down after more than three decades with Penguin and Random House. He will serve as a consultant to the company through the end of 2016. David Sanford has been promoted to svp, executive director, contracts and permissions companywide, with responsibility for all the adult and children’s imprint and divisional contract directors. Robin Simon, Erica Cuculic and Megan Thomas are each appointed director, contracts, Penguin Publishing Group, with respective imprint responsibilities. At Delacorte Press, Wendy Loggia and Krista Marino have both been promoted to senior executive editor, while Monica Jean moves up to assistant editor. Jessica […]