Rob Wall has been promoted to art director at Little Bee Books. At Open Road Media, Sarah Mangiola has been promoted to executive editor, content strategy; Carolyn Cox to managing editor content strategy; Catherine Phelan to senior editor; Olivia Mason to audience development manager; Amanda Yee to director of email production; and Amanda Shaffer to senior designer. Eric Meyer has joined as metadata specialist and Mike Wynne as customer acquisition manager for Early Bird Books. Sammy Brown has been promoted to publicist at HMH Children’s. Marissa Page has joined HMH as publicity associate. She previously worked as a journalist. Awards National Book […]
Archives for April 2019
Hoang’s The Bride Test Tops May Library Reads
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang is the top pick for May’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and Juliet Grames’ The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, and Richard Roper’s How Not to Die Alone, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Farm, by Joanne Ramos The Flatshare, by Beth O’Leary Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors, by Sonali Dev Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston Storm Cursed, by Patricia Briggs Sunset Beach, by […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Makkai, Laymon, Thompson-Spires, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include: Fiction Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink) Biography David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Kiese Laymon, Heavy (Scribner) Current Interest Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead) Graphic Novel/Comics Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam (First Second) History Julia Boyd, Travelers In The Third Reich (Pegasus) Mystery/Thriller Oyinkan Braithwaite, […]
People, Etc.
Aly Mostel will join Harper One on April 18 as director of marketing, reporting to Laina Adler. She was senior director of communications at Rodale Books, and then worked as an independent marketing consultant. Julia Kent has been promoted to associate director of marketing, now reporting to Mostel. Carolyn Davidson has been promoted to marketing coordinator, supporting both Mostel and Kent. In the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sales department, Michael Harrigan has been promoted to executive director, Amazon; James Phirman to executive director of special sales; Emily Logan to national account manager; and Carissa Ray to sales manager. Additionally, Pilar Garcia-Brown […]
Real Sales Data, Broadly Accessible
We’ve had a great reception to our latest initiative opening up access to real book sales from Bookscan. It’s been a little over a month since we launched affordable monthly subscriptions to a limited package of NPD Bookscan sales data, that lets qualified members follow or research up to 5 different ISBNs a month. (Our Bookscan sales offer are available only to agents, scouts and authors.) Now anyone can afford to research and follow industry-standard book sales data whenever needed. For each ISBN, you’ll see actual, tracked US print sales for the most recent week, the year to date, and […]
WH Smith to Retool Stores for Kids and Lighter Readers
UK retailer WH Smith released its interim report for the six months ended February 28, 2019, including plans for updates to its High Street store inventory. Total group revenue of £695 million was up 8 percent, with High Street sales — where most of their book sales occur — at £331 million, down £4 million from a year ago. High Street trading profit was £48 million, down £2 million from a year ago. They took a £7 million restructuring charge in the segment, following “a detailed review” that includes closing “around 6 High Street stores.” High Street comp store sales […]