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Archives for January 2018

National Book Awards Announces Prize For Translated Literature

January 31, 2018
By Erin Somers

The National Book Foundation will add a fifth category to the National Book Awards, for books in translation. Starting with the awards ceremony this November, the prize will honor the author and translator of a work of fiction or nonfiction that has been translated into English and published in the US. Submissions open for the new prize on […]

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People, Etc.

January 30, 2018
By Erin Somers

Rachel Ekstrom Courage has moved to Folio Literary Management as an agent representing adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction and select nonfiction projects. Previously she was an agent at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. At Sterling Lord Literistic, Laurie Liss has been promoted to executive vice president and managing partner, and Nadyne Pike moves up […]

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Briefs: Flame Tree Publishing Launches; Gates Touts New Pinker; and More

January 30, 2018
By Sarah Weinman

London-based Flame Tree Publishing is building on their recent work in publishing genre short stories to launch the trade fiction imprint Flame Tree Press in September with 12 titles, and aims to publish 24 to 30 horror, crime, science fiction  and fantasy books a year. Run by founder Nick Wells, Don D’Auria is the executive editor based […]

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People: Curr to Leave S&S

January 30, 2018
By Michael Cader

Simon & Schuster ceo Carolyn Reidy announced in a memo this morning that president and publisher of the Atria Publishing Group Judith Curr “has decided to leave” after 19 years with the company, effective at the end of day. She was the founding publisher of Atria Books in 2002, and became head of the Atria […]

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Waterstones Negotiating Sale to Elliott Advisors

January 29, 2018
By Michael Cader

Elliott Advisors, the UK branch of Paul Singer’s hedge fund Elliott Management, has been given “a short period of exclusivity within which to conclude negotiations” to purchase UK bookselling chain Waterstones, Sky News reported, citing a single source. The report has a measure of credibility since, as we have been writing all along, “one insider suggested […]

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People, Etc.

January 29, 2018
By Erin Somers

Liz Gorinsky is leaving her position as a senior editor at Tor Books on February 2. She will continue to handle some of her authors as a consulting editor at Tor and edit short fiction at Tor.com. Alissa Nigro has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate marketing manager. She was most recently marketing associate at Random […]

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