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People, Etc.: 5 Under 35, and More

September 25, 2017
By Erin Somers

The National Book Foundation announced their latest list of 5 Under 35 honorees on Monday morning, all women, and all but one of whom are Penguin Random House authors. The one outlier so far, Butler, had her next book deal just announced, and Clemmons worked in editorial for a few years at Little, Brown.

Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Riverhead)
Halle Butler, Jillian (Curbside Splendor)
Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose (Viking)
Leopoldine Core, When Watched: Stories (Penguin)
Weike Wang, Chemistry (Knopf )

Being of a certain age, we started wondering what a 5 Over 50 list would look like — but then we remembered there already is one, at least right now. It’s just called the bestsellers list: Follett (68); Lagercrantz (55); Cussler (86); King (70); Le carre (85); Coulter (74); Roberts (Robb) (66); Grafton (77); Grisham (62); Steel (70); Penny (59); Towles (53); Evanovich (74); Coleman (61); etc.

Nina Shield has moved over to Tarcher Perigee as editor. She was previously editor and backlist manager for Plume/Blue Rider Press.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Chidlren’s, Lily Kessinger has been promoted to associate editor and in her new role will edit many forthcoming middle grade and YA titles. Nicole Sclama has also been promoted to associate editor, and Harriet Low is now editorial associate.

Karen Walsh will join Candlewick Press in the new role of executive director of publicity for brands and key titles, starting September 25. Walsh has been with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  for 14 years, most recently as executive director of publicity for children’s.

At HMH Children’s Lily Kessinger and Nicole Sclama have each been promoted to associate editor. Harriet Low has been promoted to editorial associate.

The latest acquisition for the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is the archive of author Michael Ondaatje.

Distribution
Tuttle Publishing will move their print distribution in the US from Simon & Schuster to PGW, starting January 2018. PGW already distributes Tuttle’s ebooks, and will handle gift sales as well.

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