Quarto announced changes to their sales and marketing structure. The global English language sales team now reports to Ken Fund, in his new role as chief operating officer, and is structured in three main channels: US sales, UK and Europe sales, and international sales. Andrew Stanley will join as sales director of UK and Europe, effective July 10. Previously, he was deputy director of group sales for Thames & Hudson. Tim Loynes has joined as director of children’s sales; previously he was head of special sales at Abrams and Chronicle Books. Mary Aarons becomes director of sales, e-commerce and ANZ, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. Monica Baggio […]
Archives for April 2017
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Haslett, Hill, Alexievich, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night, including the new Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. The winners include: Fiction Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nathan Hill, The Nix (Knopf) Current Interest Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich, Secondhand Time (Random House) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All (Little, Brown) Poetry Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening (New Directions) The other winners were: Volker Ullrich (Biography); Nick Drnaso (Graphic Novel/Comics); Benjamin Madley (History); Bill Beverly (Mystery/Thriller); Luke Dittrich (Science and Technology); Frances Hardinge (Young […]
Authors: No Ivanka Promotion, Another Patterson Gift, and More
In January Portfolio postponed the release of Ivanka Trump‘s Women Who Work from March to May to make it easier for her to promote the book, to “accommodate these momentous changes in Ivanka’s life and give her time to settle her children into their new home, schools and city.” Now that she has also settled into an official White House position, however, she will not promote the book at all: “Out of an abundance of caution and to avoid the appearance of using my official role to promote the book, I will not publicize the book through a promotional tour […]
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Stephany Evans has joined Ayesha Pande Literary as an agent, where she’ll continue to represent her list of adult fiction and nonfiction. Previously, she was a principal at FinePrint Literary Management. At Chronicle Books, Jeff Wiebe has been promoted to director of operations; Sarah Billingsley has been promoted to executive editor of food and lifestyle; and Lauren Lubell has been promoted to industrial designer. Awards The Booker International Prize has announced its six-title shortlist: Mathias Enard, Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Norton/Fitzcarraldo Editions) David Grossman, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen (Knopf/Jonathan Cape) Roy Jacobsen, The Unseen, translated […]
Penguin Workshop Imprint for Kids Starts This Fall
Penguin Children’s will launch a new imprint this fall, Penguin Workshop, run by president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Warne, Francesco Sedita. The new line will publish “new voices and established brands for readers ages birth to 12.” He says in the announcement, “Penguin Workshop is a laboratory for cultivating unique, new ideas. This has been my dream since I started at Penguin. I was an extremely reluctant reader as a child, and it’s my goal to make books that make readers. To make books that make readers smile. And sometimes, to make readers hug their books.” The […]
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Sharon Kunz has joined Da Capo Press as senior publicist, focusing primarily on their Seal Press list and reporting to Lissa Warren. Previously, she was media engagement manager at Globe Pequot. She will be based in the Hachette Boston office. The American Library Association has promoted Mary Mackay to associate executive director for publishing, effective June 5th. She will lead ALA publishing and its Editions/Neal-Schuman, Booklist, American Libraries, eLearning Solutions, Digital Resources, and Graphics imprints. At Ingram Content Group, Nick Yates has been promoted to manager of operations analysis in Greater Nashville. Christy Johnson has joined as client relations manager for Ingram Academic Services in New York. Adaptations The long-gestating efforts to develop Robert Jordan’s Wheel […]