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March 10, 2021By Erin Somers

People, Etc.

March 10, 2021By Erin Somers

Paul Samuelson will join Scribner as a deputy director of publicity on March 22. He was most recently director of publicity for Twelve Books.

Emily Fisher has joined William Morrow as senior publicist. She was previously publicist at Bloomsbury.

Rayshma Arjune has been promoted to publicity manager, special interest and Osprey at Bloomsbury

At Flatiron, Louis Grilli has been promoted assistant manager, publishing operations; Sydney Jeon to assistant editor; Christopher Smith to senior publicity manager; Claire McLaughlin to senior publicist; Erin Gordon to assistant art director, marketing; Katherine Turro to assistant director, marketing; and Keith Hayes to vp, creative director.

Terrence Hart joins AAP as general counsel. He was previously assistant general counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office.

Sandra Pareja has joined Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents as agent. She was previously at Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency.

Maria B. Campbell Associates has been appointed US scout for Marginesy Publishers in Poland, with Maria B. Campbell Associates UK as their UK scout.

Distribution
Platform Books, LifeLines, G Editions, and Girl Friday Books will be distributed by Two Rivers starting in spring 2021.

Awards
The winner of the 2020 Story Prize is The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw.

The finalists for the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for “a distinguished mid-career author of fiction” are:

Danielle Evans (The Office of Historical Corrections)
Jenny Offill (Weather)
Darin Strauss (The Queen of Tuesday)
Lysley Tenorio (The Son of Good Fortune)

Audio
Scribd Audio updated the information they provided to us initially. Most of their titles are not exclusive to Scribd for three months; the new Black Imagination is an exception.

Filed Under: Awards, Distribution, Free, Personnel

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