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 House Children’s.
Elias Altman will join Massie & McQuilkin as an agent starting February 1. He has been with Aevitas Creative Management for three years
Michael O. Campbell will join The University of Washington Press as sales director starting February 6. He was most recently the US sales manager at Lone Pine Publishing.
Awards
At the Grammys on Sunday evening, Carrie Fisher won a posthumous award for Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of her 2016 memoir The Princess Diarist (Penguin Audio). Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury garnered extra attention in a segment where several celebrities, as well as Hillary Clinton, read excerpts of the book.
Bookselling
McNally Jackson opened its first Brooklyn location, on North 4th Street in Williamsburg.