Will Smith‘s book, written with Mark Manson, will be titled Will and published by Penguin Press on November 9. Katie Couric will have a live tour promoting Going There, publishing October 26. Produced by Live Nation, the tour opens at the Orpheum Theatre in Boston on October 28 and will visit 11 cities.
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Leis Pederson has returned to Berkley as editor at large acquiring romance and mysteries. Heather Kelly has been promoted to assistant art director, Appleseed and Abrams Childrens. Gabrielle Nugent has been promoted to associate publicist at Norton. At Harper Christian, Becky Monds has been promoted to associate publisher, Laura Wheeler to acquisitions editor, and Jodi Hughes to senior editor for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan.
Awards
Catherine Lacey won the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Prize for her novel Pew.
Initiatives
The ABA is bringing back its #BoxedOut campaign for Amazon Prime Day 2021, which will take place on June 20 and 21. Launched on last year’s prime day to build awareness for indie bookstores during COVID-19, the event featured social media initiatives, posters, and displays pushing back against Amazon. Penguin Random House has launched All Ways Black, an initiative that “showcases and celebrates the many facets of the Black experience.” The publisher will partner with Cree Myles, who created the initiative, and “will work alongside the Penguin Random House Creative Strategy team to develop editorial content and original programming that highlight […]
Obituaries
Janet Malcolm, 86, New Yorker writer and author of The Journalist and the Murderer died Wednesday of lung cancer.