Nina Wiener has joined Mayo Clinic Press in the newly created position of editor-in-chief. She was previously managing editor of Taschen. In the new role, Wiener will “guide its evolution from a trusted publisher of consumer health guides, to a multi-platform publishing house.” Noleen Robinson has been promoted to head of insight at Harper Collins. Based in the UK, she will oversee their global insight program while continuing as head of insight for UK, Australia, and India. Nicole James has left Chalberg & Sussman to start her own agency, The James Literary Agency. Adria Goetz has been promoted to senior […]
Archives for February 2021
New Books Publishing February 16
In fiction, a new Sarah J. Maas title drops today. Nonfiction highlights include Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s The Black Church, the companion book to an upcoming PBS series. 13 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_February_/218835 11 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-16 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_February_/218836 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as […]
March Picks: Indie Next, Library Reads
The ABA named Chris Whitaker‘s We Begin at the End as its No. 1 pick for March. Also on the list are Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The rest of the list: Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner Brood, by Jackie Polzin The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn The Windsor Knot, by SJ Bennett Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters #3), by Talia […]
Reese’s Book Club Announces “Eat the Book” Cooking Series
On February 18, Reese’s Book Club will air the first of four episodes in a new digital series Eat the Book, in which authors of the club’s picks join female chefs to bring a moment in their book to life through cooking a dish. Host Christina Milian will join authors Tembi Locke (From Scratch), Jasmine Guillory (The Proposal), Delia Owens (Where the Crawdads Sing) and Amanda Eyre Ward (The Jetsetters). The featured chefs are Genevieve Gergis, Karyn Tomlinson, Kim Prince, and Sara Kramer. The episodes will stream on @ReesesBookClub and @HelloSunshine channels every Thursday at 10 a.m PT.
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Kaitlyn Sanchez is joining Red Fox Literary as agent. She was previously associate agent at Olswanger Literary. In the publishing operations department at Penguin Random House, Hanna Glidden and Amanda Rodell are promoted to director, and Kim Wiley is promoted to manager. Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita, editor of crime anthologies including Unspeakable Acts and Women Crime Writers, and former news editor at Publishers Lunch, has joined the New York Times Book Review as crime columnist. Marilyn Stasio, who has written the crime column since 1988, is retiring. Disney Television Studios has formed a new creative acquisitions department, focused […]
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Ruth Dickey will join the National Book Foundation as executive director on May 17. She has served as executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures since 2013. Former lead Lisa Lucas, who serves on the NBF board now, says in the announcement, “Ruth Dickey’s extraordinary skill set—developed over many years as an exceptional, thoughtful, and dynamic leader in the nonprofit literary space—is precisely what the National Book Foundation needs to charge forward,. Her experiences working across the country help to remind us all that this work is for everyone, everywhere.” David Steinberger, chair of the National Book Foundation’s board of […]