Associate publisher for Crown Business, Crown Forum, and Convergent, Campbell Wharton will take on the additional role of associate publisher for WaterBrook and Multnomah, continuing to report to Tina Constable. At Doubleday Canada, in March, Bhavna Chauhan was promoted to senior editor for Doubleday Canada and Appetite; Kiara Kent moved up to editor for Doubleday Canada and Bond Street Books; and Zoe Maslow is now editor for Doubleday Canada and Appetite. Emily Ollis has been promoted to marketing manager for Putnam. Imprints In Canada, The Walrus and House of Anansi Press, have partnered on a new nonfiction imprint Walrus Imprint, funded by Chawkers Foundation Writers’ Project. The aim of the new imprint is […]
Our Big June Monthly
With multiple titles from our Buzz Books spring/summer collection making the various “best books of May” lists, we continue this year’s successful new monthly sampler program with the release of June Buzz Books Monthly, available for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. Offering just the right amount of excerpts for consumers, and including a comprehensive preview that highlights hundreds of notable forthcoming titles for the month (listed by subject category and then again week by week), the June monthly features fiction excerpts from: The Marsh King’s Daughter, by Karen Dionne Come Sundown, by Nora Roberts The Force, by Don Winslow The Answers, by Catherine Lacey […]
People, Etc.
David Pomerico has been promoted to editorial director for Harper’s Voyager imprint. Alexis Gargagliano has left her position as executive editor at Regan Arts to work independently — “ghostwriting, book doctoring, developing editorial strategy for websites, and helping organizations tell their stories through compelling narratives.” At Clarkson Potter, Jennifer Sit will join as senior editor, effective May 8. Previously, she was the cookbook editor at Blue Apron. Sara Neville has joined as associate editor; she was the book and stationery buyer at Urban Outfitters. Jenni Zellner has moved from Crown Archetype to Clarkson Potter as associate editor. Sonia Sanchez has joined Open Road […]
More May Picks: Library Reads, iBooks
Gail Honeyman’s novel Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine tops the May Library Reads list. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, including The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane (also included in our May Buzz Books Monthly); and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. The rest of the list: The Leavers, by Lisa Ko Saints for All Occasions, but J. Courtney Sullivan White Hot, by Ilona Andrews Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil de Grasse Tyson The Jane Austen Project, by Kathleen A. […]
May Bookseller Picks
Amazon‘s spotlight pick for May is Patricia Lockwood’s memoir Priestdaddy and their featured debut is Benjamin Ludwig’s Ginny Moon, also excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer. The other picks feature: Apollo 8, by Jeffrey Kluger One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi Koul Time’s a Thief, by B.G. Firmani Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor American Kingpin, by Nick Bilton Trajectory, by Richard Russo The Jersey Brothers, by Sally Mott Freeman Broken River, J. Robert Lennon Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction for May recommends Russo’s book of stories as well, along with: Men without Women, by Haruki Murakami Against […]
People, Etc.
Angela Baggetta is leaving her position as managing director at Goldberg McDuffie Communications, where she has worked for 14 year, at the end of May to launch Angela Baggetta Communications. The new company will create targeted, personalized publicity and marketing campaigns for “authors, thinkers, and doers.” Baggetta will continue work with Goldberg McDuffie on particular projects as well. Michael C. Miller has been named chief legal officer & vp of corporate affairs at Barnes & Noble Education, reporting to ceo Max Roberts. Suzanne E. Andrews will continue as vp, general counsel, and secretary of the board, reporting to Miller. He was evp, […]