Reese Witherspoon has chosen Denise Mina’s Conviction as her December book club pick. Jenn Bush Hager chose Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations as the December pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for December is Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter collection) and their Featured Debut is Calvin Hennick’s Once More to the Rodeo. The rest of the picks: Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi Under Occupation, by Alan Furst The Playground, by Jane Shemilt Labyrinth of Ice, by Buddy Levy Anyone, by Charles Soule All […]
Archives for December 2019
Briefs: Neon Literary, Bloomsbury’s China JV, and More
Agency News Anna Sproul-Latimer and Kent Wolf have joined to launch Neon Literary, with offices in New York and Washington, DC. Sproul-Latimer has been at the Yoon Ross Agency for almost 15 years, and Wolf has been at the Friedrich Agency. They say in their announcement “it was the eventual realization that their clients were intersecting–on social media, at events, and in writing groups–that signaled to the two agents that coming together made perfect sense.” “Neon Literary is on a mission to dismantle the Big Ideas Industry, smuggling money, power, and frontlist glory out to authors who might not have […]