After sharing office space and some employees for the past two years, agencies Kuhn Projects and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth are formally merging to form Aevitas Creative Management. They write in an announcement: “Our every hope is that Aevitas will carry forward the best practices and traditions of both agencies. We’re especially excited to create more growth opportunities for younger colleagues eager to spread their wings and be part of an organization that we’re confident will thrive for years to come. We remain a boutique enterprise, but a stronger and more capable one, with an ever more impressive list of clients, agents, […]
Archives for December 2016
More Best Ofs: Library Reads’ Favorites for 2016, Google’s Bestsellers and More
Library Reads selected Ruth Ware’s THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 as its “Favorite of Favorites” for 2016. The rest of their year-end list, in ranked order, features: Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, by Katarina Bivald A Great Reckoning, by Louise Penny The Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Salt to the Sea, by Ruta Sepetys The Summer Before the War, by Helen Simonson Lilac Girls, by Martha Hall Kelly Truly Madly Guilty, by Liane Moriarty Separately, the Seattle Times book critics have weighed in with their best books […]
December Bookseller Picks, Too
Even with “books of the year” lists, new December titles still get their own highlights. Amazon didn’t name a “featured debut” this month, but Michael Lewis’s latest The Undoing Project is their “spotlight pick.” Their other top titles for December are: Normal, by Warren Ellis Against Empathy, by Paul Bloom Christmas Days, by Jeanette Winterson Game of Queens, by Sarah Gristwood Mincemeat, by Leonardo Lucarelli The Signals Are Talking, by Amy Webb Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, by Anne Rice Krazy, by Michael Tisserand The Seventh Plague, by James Rollins In an unusual move, Target added a second book […]
People, Etc.
Stephen Power will join Thomas Dunne Books as executive editor on December 5. Previously he was a senior editor at Amacom. Bret Kehoe has joined Sourcebooks as managing editor. Previously, he was lead editor at Questions Galore. Awards The National Book Critics Circle nominated six titles for their John Leonard Prize, given to a first book in any genre: The Mothers, by Brit Bennett The Girls, by Emma Cline Here Comes the Sun, by Nicole Dennis-Benn Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi The Nix, by Nathan Hill Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, by Max Porter
15, Plus: Celebrating Another PM Milestone
The election pretty much ate November so we postponed marking the anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com for a month — but it’s a big one, so it shouldn’t go unmarked. Improbable as it sounds, it has been just over 15 years since we launched our site. It’s a little comforting, in an odd way, in these charged and uncertain times, to remember that we launched at what would commonly have been considered the very worst moment in history to initiate a paid online content business, or a new business of any kind. The NASDAQ began its two-year collapse in late 2000 so […]
The NYT’s Top Ten Books, and More
The NYT Book Review’s editors announced their top ten books of 2016 (with individual lists from the newspaper’s critics still to come), as usual picking a mix of expected and unexpected titles. In fiction, there is Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award winner and already the clear, consensus “book of the year” leader in our annual aggregated listings, The Underground Railroad, plus: The Association of Small Bombs, by Karan Mahajan The North Water, by Ian McGuire The Vegetarian, by Han Kang War and Turpentine, by Stefan Hertmans The nonfiction list includes consensus top title Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, plus: At the Existentialist […]