• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.: BN Discover Winners, and More

March 1, 2017
By Michael Cader

Barnes & Noble presented their annual Discover Great New Writers Awards to Abby Geni’s debut The Lightkeepers (Counterpoint Press) for fiction, and Matthew Desmond’s widely-acclaimed Evicted (Crown) for nonfiction.

People
Erin Somers has joined Publishers Lunch as a reporter. Previously she has worked for two trade publications, and her writing about books has appeared in Literary Hub, The Millions, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Somers is also the recipient of a 2016 Center For Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowship. News editor Sarah Weinman is on a leave of absence to complete the manuscript for her forthcoming book AMONG THE WHOLESOME CHILDREN, the story of the real-life inspiration for Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita,

Little, Brown announced a number of recent promotions. Jean Garnett has been promoted to editor, while Carina Guiterman moves up to associate editor. Maggie Southard has been promoted to senior publicist, while Julie Ertl has been promoted to publicist. Brandon Kelley has been promoted to executive director of marketing operations and Kaitlyn Boudah moves up to marketing coordinator.

Cave Henricks public relations has promoted Margaret Kingsbury to publicity director and Kimberly Petty has moved up to the new position of head of marketing and social media.

Jesse Aylen has left Crown Archetype to transition to freelance editing, writing, and co-writing.

Georgina Hawtrey-Woore, 50, senior editor at Cornerstone, died on February 27 after battling cancer. She joined Century and Arrow in 2002.

Bookselling
The 6,500-square-foot bookstore Amazon is developing in Walnut Creek, CA’s Broadway Plaza looks will include a small cafe — based on an East Bay Times report on conceptual renderings submitted to the city for review. The just-opened store in Dedham, MA is the first of their outlets to serve coffee. (Boston Magazine says they are serving Peet’s Coffee.)

The Fashion Bookstore in Los Angeles will close March 31. Located in the California Market Center showroom building, the bookstore has sold fashion-themed magazines and books for twenty-five years. Co-founder Bill Golant cited high rents as the reason for closing.

Correction
Correcting our piece about the Obamas’ book deal, Penguin Random House ceo Markus Dohle was indeed on-site in Florida for the company’s sales conference and opened the event on Sunday event. Whatever time he was absent from meetings finalizing the Obama deal, a spokesperson confirms “his engagement with our sales and publishing colleagues at many of our sessions.”

Filed Under: Awards, Bookstores, Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Reid Hoffman Posts a Free eBook About His Experiences with ChaptGPT-4 March 16, 2023 Free PDF
  • Siri Hustvedt Reveals that Paul Auster Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at Sloan Kettering March 14, 2023 Instagram post
  • John Jakes Dies at 90 March 14, 2023 NYT
  • Barnes & Noble Children's Awards Shortlists March 13, 2023 BN
  • Greenlight to Close Flatbush Store Due to Low Sales: "We Have to Focus on What's Working" March 13, 2023 Owner video
  • Nobel Winner Kenzaburo Oe Dies at 88 March 13, 2023 Reuters
  • Celebrities Did Not Give Permission to Have Their Old Letters Exploited in New Trump Book March 10, 2023 Newsweek
  • Copperfield's Petaluma Booksellers Unionize March 10, 2023 Union Twitter
  • Barnes & Noble In Corte Madera, CA to Close March 12 After 17 Years As Lease Is Not Renewed March 7, 2023 Local site/Instagram
  • Laurie Halse Anderson Wins the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award March 7, 2023 The Bookseller
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.