Karen Yates has been promoted to associate literary agent at Yates & Yates. Helen Richard has been promoted to associate editor at Putnam. At Harper Collins, Ashley Mihlebach has been promoted to the newly-created position of director, sales for general books, national accounts, Amazon. Yale University Press celebrates co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics William Nordhaus; they publish his books The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World and A Question of Balance. Briefs Barnes & Noble‘s monthly Book Buzz newsletter does not name a “book of the month” selection for October, but the chain does point […]
Archives for October 2018
Frankfurt Opening Is Both Sunny and Stormy
The Frankfurt Book Fair officially opened on Tuesday morning (though the halls don’t open until Wednesday), presenting a study in contrasts. While the Fair celebrates its 70th anniversary, this year’s opening press conference was held in their new space-age Pavilion, dubbed everything from “a bright wooden skeleton covered with canvas reminiscent of a ship’s belly” to “a snazzy wooden UFO, which landed in the middle of the exhibition grounds.” For the average international visitor, the biggest contrast might simply be the weather, with the forecast calling for unseasonable highs of 75 degrees every day of the show. A robust economy […]
Briefs: PRH to Launch Local Line In Singapore, and More
Penguin Random House South East Asia will launch in Singapore in 2019, to “discover and publish local and international voices across English-language adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction formats for Singapore and Malaysia, as well as from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei, and Myanmar.” Gaurav Shrinagesh, ceo of Penguin Random House India and South East Asia, will oversee the company, with Nora Nazerene Abu Bakar joining as executive editor in November and reporting to Shrinagesh. Most recently Bakar was acquisitions manager at Marshall Cavendish Education. The company will do business as Penguin Books Singapore for now, with a formal […]
People, Etc.
The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 25 fellows, and they include fiction writer Kelly Link, 49, and fiction and nonfiction writer John Keene, 53. Also receiving grants are poet Natalie Diaz, 40, and playwright Dominique Morisseau, 40. Just-announced co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Nadia Murad‘s memoir THE LAST GIRL was published a year ago by Tim Duggan Books, and is scheduled for trade paperback release on November 6. Jaime Mendola-Hobbie has been promoted to executive director of advertising and promotion for Berkley, Dutton, Putnam, and Plume. Ashley Fisher-Tranese is moves up to director, advertising. Vi-An Nguyen become associate art director, advertising. Publisher of Weidenfeld […]
November and December Buzz Books Monthly
Our monthly sampler program wraps up 2018 with November/December Buzz Books Monthly, available now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. This edition is a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and romance, excerpting six titles due for publication in the last two months of the year. Fiction titles include Liars’ Paradox, the first in a new spy series from New York Times bestselling author Taylor Stevens, followed by Carrie Callaghan’s debut, A Light of Her Own, a fictional account of artist and Rembrandt contemporary Judith Leyster. Ariel Burger’s Witness:Lessons From Elie Wiesel’s Classroomis the nonfiction title, chronicling the conversations between teacher and student over decades. Three romance titles round out the sampler: Denise Hunter’s […]
Hagyas’ Scribe Tops November Indie Next List
The ABA named Scribe by Alyson Hagyas its No. 1 pick for November. Other picks include Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah; Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver; The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa; Melmoth by Sarah Perry; and Family Trust by Kathy Wang, all of which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: The Collector’s Apprentice, by B.A. Shapiro The Lonesome Bodybuilder, by Yukiko Motoya The Library Book, by Susan Orlean The Feral Detective, by Jonathan Lethem A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne Alice Isn’t Dead, by Joseph Fink An […]