• 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.: 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.

Filed Under: 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

  • Jordan Peterson Suspended on Twitter for "Hateful Conduct" In Comment About Elliot Page July 1, 2022 NY Post
  • Rushdie Will Move From Random House to Knopf for Next Novel, in 2023 June 30, 2022 Bookseller
  • Macmillan Cyber Attack Gets National Coverage; Retailers Don't Mind, But It Still Hurts Authors and the Company June 30, 2022 WSJ
  • Wattpad Is Buying Exclusivity to Some of their Most Popular Authors and Stories with Stipends of Up to $25,000 June 30, 2022 Press Release
  • Supreme Court Declines to Review or Revise Landmark NYT v. Sullivan Libel Standard, Despite Clarence Thomas's Objection June 27, 2022 CNN
  • So Far, Books by Trump Aides Are Mostly...Losers June 23, 2022 Politico
  • Macmillan Nigeria Publisher Charged With Book Fraud June 21, 2022 The Herald
  • All The Exiting Agents Seem to Think ICM's Sale to CAA Will Get Approved Shortly by DOJ June 17, 2022 Deadline
  • Spotify Closes Findaway Acquisition: "Their technology will help propel Spotify into the rapidly growing audiobooks industry" June 17, 2022 Press Release
  • Australian Author John Hughes "Unintentionally" Plagiarized The Great Gatsby And Other Famous Works In His New Novel June 15, 2022 The Guardian
© 2022 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.