Random House executives and a formidable roster of authors provided a rich, heartfelt and inspiring celebration of the exuberant life of Susan Kamil, who died in September, on Thursday afternoon at the New York Times Center. Random House publishing group president and publisher Gina Centrello said emotionally, “If I am successful at all today, it is due in large part to Susan’s guiding hand.” As Centrello recalled, “About 15 years ago, I was appointed publisher of Random House. Prior to this, all of my experience in publishing was in commercial publishing. Literary publishing was a different world; a very different […]
Archives for December 2019
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George Witte has been promoted to senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the St. Martin’s publishing group. Tina Jordan has been promoted to deputy editor at the New York Times Book Review. David Kelly become managing editor. Elizabeth Egan joins as preview editor; she was previously Glamour’s books editor and worked at Workman and Simon & Schuster. Lauren Truskowski has joined Gallery as associate director of publicity. She previously worked at Penguin and HarperCollins. In the UK, Ebury will focus on nonfiction, and publishing director Gillian Green will leave in spring 2020 as a result after 12 years there. The […]
Remember November: How Did They Pick?
We’re back with another fascinating look at the prominent retailer and book club selections for November, along with four weeks of sales data to see how they performed in the marketplace. November gives a somewhat better view of the impact of the new version of Oprah’s Book Club, since this time she picked a book that was already published. (But her promotional linkage is to Apple and all we have available are print sales, not ebook and digital audio sales, so the value of that relationship remains opaque.) Separately, it was National Book Awards month, so we checked to see […]
Reid’s Such A Fun Age Tops January Indie Next List
The ABA named Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age as its No. 1 pick for January. Also on the list are Liz Moore’s Long Bright River and Raymond Fleishmann’s How Quickly She Disappears, available to sample now, along with the Reid, in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano Imaginary Museums, by Nicolette Polek Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain The Magical Language of Others, by E.J. Koh Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener The Vanished Birds, by Simon Jimenez Night Theater, by Vikram Paralkar Lady Clementine, by Marie Benedict […]
The First of the Best of the Best Books of 2019
With today’s publication of three separate “books of the year” lists from the NYT’s daily book critics, along with recent additions from Molly Young at NY Magazine, and Maureen Corrigan at NPR, it’s time for the first installment of our signature aggregation of lists from all over that yield solid, consensus lists of the very best books of the year. (Separately, you’ll be shocked that Barnes & Noble picked the same book that Waterstones selected as book of the year — The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, by Charlie Mackesy, which has not been named by any […]
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At Simon & Schuster Audio, Tiffany Frarey has been promoted to senior associate producer; Gaby Audet to marketing coordinator; and Desiree Vecchio to senior editor. Tamar McCollom has been promoted to assistant editor at Scribner. At Waterbrook Multnomah, Laura Barker has been promoted to vice president and publisher. Andrew Stoddard becomes editorial director. Kristopher Orr is moving to the newly created position of designer for Christian books, starting January 1. He will be working within the Random House Creative Services department, based in New York, reporting to senior director Annette Melvin. Ericka Weed has been promoted to ad operations coordinator. […]