Chronicle Books vp of sales & marketing Tyrrell Mahoney is being promoted to president of the publisher as of January 1, as Jack Jensen takes the “more comprehensive role” of president of McEvoy Group, Chronicle’s owner. Jensen will oversee all of McEvoy’s companies — Chronicle Books, along with Galison/Mudpuppy, Princeton Architectural Press, and ISeeMe. Mahoney joined Chronicle in 1996 and will report to Jensen. McEvoy Group ceo Nion McEvoy says in the announcement: “It has been an honor and a privilege to work with Jack personally for over thirty years. His contributions to Chronicle Books as well as to the business of […]
Archives for December 2016
Delaney Tops January Library Reads List
J.P. Delaney’s suspense thriller The Girl Before tops the January 2017 Library Reads list. Books on this list that also appear on the January Indie Next list include: The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden The Dry, by Jane Harper Books for Living, by Will Schwalbe The Most Dangerous Place on Earth, by Lindsey Lee Johnson Her Every Fear, by Peter Swanson The rest of the list features: Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough The Fifth Petal, by Brunonia Barry Heartstone, by Elle Katharine White In Best of 2016 lists, you can […]
People
Derek Stordahl joins Holiday House in the newly created position of evp, general manager, reporting to Stephen Kent. Stordahl was most recently executive vice president at Bloomsbury USA, where he was responsible for business growth across their entire portfolio. At Clarkson Potter, Ashley Meyer and Amanda Englander have both been promoted to senior editor. Caitlin Kleinschmidt has joined Workman as associate manager of national accounts, reporting to James Wehrle. Previously she was associate marketing manager at Viking and Riverhead. Lia Ottaviano has joined Diversion Books as editor. Previously she was an associate editor at Wiley. At Random House Children’s, Lauren […]
Fridlund Tops January Indie Next, and More Best of Lists
The ABA puts Emily Fridlund’s debut novel at the top of the January 2017 Indie Next list (and yes, it’s been available for a free preview in our Fall/Winter Buzz Books collection, as is Shanthi Sekaran’s Lucky Boy). The full list: History of Wolves, by Emily Fridlund The Second Mrs. Hockaday, by Susan Rivers The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden The Dry, by Jane Harper Everything You Want Me to Be, by Mindy Mejia Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (Trans.) *Lucky Boy, by Shanthi Sekaran Difficult Women, by Roxane Gay Books for Living, by Will Schwalbe The […]
People, Etc.
Danielle Smith has left Red Fox Literary after three years to launch her own literary agency, Lupine Grove Creative, with most of her clients set to follow her to the new agency. Playwright Kia Corthron has won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (Seven Stories Press). Green Apple Books music buyer and DJ Johnny Igaz, 34, who had been missing in the Oakland warehouse fire, was confirmed by the Coroner on Tuesday as among the identified victims. Forthcoming Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will write a memoir of his […]
Bad Little Children’s Books Is Still Available; Abrams Meant They Will Not Reprint It
Clarifying their earlier statement, Abrams says that when they agreed to the author’s request to “cease publishing” the suddenly controversial Bad Little Children’s Books, what they meant is that they will not reprint the book. With an announced first printing of 30,000 copies — so figure maybe half that were printed — and sales as recorded by outlets tracked by Nielsen Bookscan through this past weekend of approximately 4,200 copies, that still should leave some copies in the supply chain to sell through. Some online sellers are out of stock are a demand spike from the publicity earlier this week, though […]