Maggie Lehrman has been promoted to editorial director, fiction for Abrams Children’s. At Knopf, Julianne Clancy has been promoted to assistant director of marketing. Emily Murphy moves up to marketing manager. Joanna Cárdenas has been promoted to senior editor at Kokila. Marisol Salaman has been promoted to publicist at Portfolio/Sentinel. Carla Bruce-Eddings has joined Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull as senior publicist. Cassie Mannes Murray has been promoted to assistant agent at Howland Literary. Former Melbourne University Publishing chief executive Louise Adler has joined Hachette Australia as publisher at large, acquiring books on current affairs and politics. Scouting Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is […]
Archives for September 2019
Frankfurt Reminds You That Layout Changes Mean You’ll Need Time to Get to Your Next Meeting
It was almost a year ago that the Frankfurt Book Fair announced that continued construction at the fairgrounds would change the layout of the show starting this year, so some people may have forgotten to plan accordingly when making this year’s appointments. But a fresh announcement this week serves as a timely reminder, while providing information on further changes planned for next year’s fair and beyond. Mostly importantly, the agents’ center has moved from its standing location at the top of Hall 6 (floor 6.3) over to the historic Festhalle near the fair’s main City entrance. (The Festhalle is the […]
September Picks
Reese’s Book Club pick for September is The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer is Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for September and Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett She Said, by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey Quichotte, by Salman Rushdie The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott Poisoner in Chief, by Stephen Kinzer The World That We Knew, by Alice Hoffman Opiod Indiana, by Brian Allen Carr The Ten Thousand Doors of January, by Alix E. […]
People: Booker Shortlist, and More
Kara Watson has been promoted to senior editor/marketing liaison at Scribner. Sara DeLozier has joined Viking/Penguin as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Picador. Executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Wanda Jewell will next June, after 30 years of leading the organization. In the UK, Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director at Granta. Jenny Fry has been promoted to commercial director at Canongate, adding responsibility for sales. Elise Burns will move to Bonnier Books UK in mid-November as trade sales and export director, reporting to Perminder Mann. She is currently UK sales director at […]