Following longtime chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta’s death on December 30, Penguin Randon House US ceo Madeline McIntosh wrote to Knopf Doubleday staff the next day: To everyone at Knopf Doubleday, As much as today’s loss is one for publishing as a whole, I know that this is a deep and personal loss for many of you. Sonny was unique. He was an exceptional editor and publisher. And I recognize all of you felt not only safe under his leadership, but something more: you felt like you were part of a family. The longevity and stability of your group, along […]
Archives for January 2020
People, Etc.
Sharon Shell has joined Independent Publishers Group as director of library & education sales. She was previously director of implementation, sales operations at Scholastic. Daniel O’Connor has been promoted to senior sales manager at Bloomsbury. Jacqui Lipton has founded Raven Quill Literary Agency, representing authors of books for children and young adults. Lipton is an attorney and a law professor, and author of Law & Authors: A Legal Handbook for Writers. For people who want to stop by and pay their respects, there will be a viewing of Sonny Mehta on Friday, January 3, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM […]
January Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for the month is American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins and their featured debut is Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner. The Cummins, along with other picks, BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits and Liz Moore’s Long Bright River, is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter anthology and available for download now. Their other top picks for the month are: Boys & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano Agency, by William Gibson Wilmington’s Lie, by David Zucchino The Night Country, by Melissa Albert The Wives, by Tarryn Fisher Barnes & Noble also chose the Cummins and the Napolitano, […]