Ted Chiang won the 2024 PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
Archives for June 2024
Lambda Literary Awards
Lambda Literary presented their annual literary awards on June 11.
People 6/12
At Barnes & Noble Education, president Jonathan Shar has been promoted to CEO, following the resignation of Michael Huseby.
Nourry Announces New Publisher, Pairs with Simon & Schuster In First-Look Agreement
Following preliminary reports in April, former Hachette Livre CEO Arnaud Nourry officially announced his new publishing venture, Les Nouveaux Editeurs. The company says it has a broad partnership with Simon & Schuster that includes a “first-look agreement for future editorial acquisitions, joining forces in some auctions and bidding together for series, licenses and other multi-book acquisitions.” S&S explains in a separate announcement, “Under the agreement, which includes adult, childrens, and illustrated/graphic titles, each company will have the first opportunity to acquire projects for its market which satisfy certain parameters and for which the other company has acquired world rights. The […]
People 6/11
At Ecco, Meghan Deans has been promoted to executive director, marketing.
Macmillan Recalls Signed Questlove Stock
On Friday evening, Macmillan emailed booksellers to alert them not to sell the signed copies they had received of Questlove’s HIP-HOP IS HISTORY, publishing today from Auwa/FSG. The publisher asked stores to disable buy buttons for the signed edition from their sites. The unsigned books, they said, are still ok to sell. In a statement, the publisher said, “Macmillan and Farrar, Straus and Giroux have just learned that the limited number of pre-signed copies of Questlove’s book, HIP-HOP IS HISTORY, which is published today by AUWA, an imprint of FSG/MCD were not individually signed by the author. The publisher would […]