Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]
Archives for November 2019
Former California Barnes & Noble Bookseller Sues for Age Discrimination, Seeking Class Action Status
Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Barbara Tavres, 59, filed suit against the bookseller in the US District Court in Northern California, seeking class action status and alleging age discrimination. After working for B&N in community relations since 2006, most recently at a bookstore in Emeryville, CA — during a career of positive performance reviews that included winning their Above & Beyond award in 2016 — Tavres was told she was being terminated on September 9. She charges that earlier that same day, her district manager Phil Alexander and “other management-level Barnes & Noble employees had participated in a recurring weekly […]
People, Etc.
Christine Edwards will join Harper Collins in the newly created role of svp, sales on December 30, reporting to Josh Marwell. She is currently vp, group sales director for Crown Publishing Group as well as vp, group sales director for Penguin Random House Audio. At Harlequin Trade, Jennifer Choi has joined as manager, subsidiary rights; she was previously at Penguin Publishing Group. Cat Clyne has joined as editor for HQN/Graydon House; she was at Sourcebooks. Samantha McVeigh has joined as publicist; she was at Kensington. In the UK, Doyel Maitra will join Hachette UK as group communications director in March […]
More Best ofs: Apple Books, Time
Apple Books chose its best books of the year: The Man Who Saw Everything, by Dorothy Levy The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Family Upstairs, by Lisa Jewell Me, by Elton John True Believer, by Jack Carr Get a Life, Chloe Brown, by Talia Hibbert Ninth House, by Leigh Barduga Normal People, by Sally Rooney Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow The Hookup Handbook, by Kendall Ryan Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi Underland, by Robert MacFarlane Everything is Figureoutable, by Marie […]
The New York Times Best 10 of 2019
An energized crowd of bibliophiles gathered at The New York Times Center on 42nd Street for the unveiling of the annual Best 10 Books list. Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, moderated a panel of Times editors and reviewers assembled to discuss their selections. This year’s list features the rare science fiction selection in Ted Chiang’s short-story collection Exhalation. (Three fiction selections are from Knopf and a fourth from Doubleday.) Fiction: Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner (a Buzz Books 2019 selection) Exhalation, by Ted Chiang Lost Children Archive, by Valeria […]
People, Etc.
Maggie Richards has been promoted to svp associate publisher at Holt. Serena Jones, promoted to editor-in-chief earlier this year, has stepped back from that position and is executive editor “to devote more time to her books and authors,” as new president and publisher Amy Einhorn looks for a new editor-in-chief. Claire Harris has been promoted to foreign rights director at Foundry Literary + Media. Luke McCord has joined Random House Children’s Books as a Production Associate. He was previously a Production Editor at Peter Lang Publishing. The American Booksellers Association’s inaugural Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards have gone to Billie Bloebaum at Third […]