Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of the 2020 Edgar Awards. Winners include: Best Novel The Stranger Diaries, by Elly Griffiths (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Best First Novel By An American Author Miracle Creek, by Angie Kim (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG) Best Paperback Original The Hotel Neversink, by Adam O’Fallon Price (Tin House Books) Best Fact Crime The Less People Know About Us, by Axton Betz-Hamilton (Grand Central) Best Critical Biographical Hitchcock and the Censors, by John Billheimer (University Press of Kentucky) Separately, the Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature were also presented. Ocean Vuong’s On Earth […]
Archives for April 2020
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Sally Kim has been promoted to senior vice president, publisher, Putnam. Christine Ball becomes senior vice president, publisher, Berkley and Dutton. Ashley McClay and Alexis Welby at Putnam will now report to Kim. At Simon & Schuster, Greg Andonian has been promoted to director, customer financial services reporting to Deepak Daswani, vice president and controller. Karyn Basso has been promoted to director, order management and customer service, reporting to Chris Wagner, vice president, operations and distribution services. Joy Harjo was appointed to a second term as poet laureate, announced by the Library of Congress. In the UK, Jocasta Hamilton will […]
Lagardere Publishing Documents Good Start Followed By Sharp Falloff
Lagardere Publishing reported results for the first quarter 2020, giving some data to the year’s good beginning and sharp turndown in March. Sales were up 5.6 percent in January and February before the global lockdowns began, followed by a 19 percent decline in March. And the company expects April sales were “down in the region of 45 percent” (which is at least better than the expected 90 percent decline in the Lagardere Travel business). For the first quarter, sales of €457 million were only down €3 million, helped again by the strong US dollar and improving British pound, which added […]
Bertelsmann Reports Moderate First Quarter Sales Decline
In a brief trading update, Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann reported “satisfactory” results for the first quarter of 2020, saying sales “declined moderately by 2.7 percent to €4.1 billion.” Ceo Thomas Rabe said: “The 2020 business year, with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, will be a challenge. We started the year well, but have been feeling an increasing impact on our businesses since March. We took a number of measures early on to protect the health of our employees and safeguard our businesses,” including selling a €750 million Eurobond with an eight-year term, among the measures to […]
Majumdar’s A Burning Tops June Indie Next List
The ABA named A Burning by Megha Majumdar as its No. 1 Indie Next Pick for June. Also on the list are Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half and Sam Lansky’s Broken People, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner Beach Read, by Emily Henry The Second Home, by Christina Clancy Catherine House, by Elisabeth Thomas Super Host, by Kate Russo Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier Something to Talk About, by Meryl Wilsner Reproduction, by Ian Williams You Exist Too Much, by […]
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Colleen Suljic has joined Princeton University Press in the newly created role of chief digital marketing strategist. She was most recently western region senior manager at McGraw-Hill. Sarah Knight has been promoted to UK adult sales director at Bloomsbury Publishing. Sally Wilks joins as UK children’s sales director. She was previously with HarperCollins Children’s. At Bastei Luebbe in Germany, Joachim Herbst will join the company earlier than previously announced as CFO, in early August, and he will become spokesman of the management board at the annual meeting on September 15, when ceo Carel Halff will relinquish his executive responsibilities. Supply Chain […]