Elizabeth Sheinkman will move to PFD as executive director of the books department and senior agent on October 5, and she will join the agency’s executive board. She has been at WME in London since 2012, moving over from Curtis Brown UK. Agency ceo Caroline Michel says in the announcement, “We are lucky to have someone with Elizabeth’s experience and knowledge joining the team and look forward to welcoming her and her clients and growing the business with her.” Sheinkman adds that she looks forward to “the chance at this juncture to develop new skills through a role that will […]
Archives for September 2017
Ward and Egan Lead National Book Award Fiction Longlist
The National Book Awards announced their final longlist on Friday morning, for the fiction award. (Asterisked titles have not been released yet.) Independent presses fared well, with 5 titles in contention: Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing (Knopf) Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories* (Riverhead) Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove Press) Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach* (Scribner) Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin) Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (Grand Central) Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories* (Graywolf) Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom (Counterpoint) Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner) Carol Zoref, Barren Island (New […]
People, Etc.
Susan Van Metre will join Candlewick Press as executive editorial director of the new Walker Books US imprint, set to launch in fall 2018. Van Metre has been with Abrams for the past 15 years, most recently as svp and publisher of the children’s division, and will remain based in New York. President and publisher of Candlewick Press and group managing director of the Walker Books Group, Karen Lotz says: “We are extremely lucky to have someone of Susan’s keen talents and vast knowledge join us at this important moment in our corporate history. Helping the Walker Bear take up new digs in the […]
Corporate: Carolina Wren Buys Blair; Laurence King Acquires BIS; and More
Carolina Wren Press is acquiring the titles of John F. Blair, Publisher, and will relaunch the combined list in January publishing under the name Blair, distributed by Consortium. (John Blair has been winding down its own distribution arm this summer.) The Durham, NC-based nonprofit will officially change its name to Blair after the acquisition is completed. In Europe, Laurence King Publishing has acquired Dutch design publisher BIS, which will continue to be overseen by managing director Bionda Dias. LKP has also created a new German subsidiary, Laurence King Verlag, which will publish 30 titles a year from their list in German, as well […]
October Library Reads
Francesca Hornak’s novel Seven Days of Us is the top pick for October’s Library Reads list. The novel is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter sampler, available for download now. Another Fall/Winter Buzz Books title, We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union, also makes the list. The other picks are: The Last Mrs. Parrish, by Liv Constantine The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash From Here to Eternity, by Caitlin Doughty The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman The Stolen Marriage, by Diane Chamberlain Uncommon Type, by Tom Hanks Strange Weather, by Joe Hill Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan
Next, the Nonfiction Longlist
Today the National Book Awards released the nonfiction longlist, with judges Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings, and Valeria Luiselli selecting politically-skewed reading: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (37 Ink) Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster) James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus) Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead) David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday) Naomi Klein, No […]