Lauren Lauzon has joined Penguin Press as marketing manager. She was previously with William Morrow. Tulsa bookstore Phantasmagoria Books and Records reported on Facebook that the man who spraypainted graffiti and a swastika outside the store is in custody. “He has been referred for a mental health evaluation because he reportedly thought we were an army surplus store that was in this location 25 years ago. He also reportedly sprayed the same graffiti in front of a house where he used to live. We are relieved to know this was reportedly not politically or maliciously motivated.” It’s the middle of […]
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Katie Boland has been promoted to events and programming manager, books at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull. In the UK, Richard Atkinson is joining Penguin Press in the newly created role of publishing director starting September 2 and reporting to managing director Stefan McGrath. He was previously senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury UK. Phantasmagoria Books and Records in Tulsa, OK continues to be harassed by white nationalists. On Monday, co-owner Shannon Iwanski saw a man spray paint a swastika and graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the store, and reported it to local police.
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Mary Francis will take over as director of Penn Press at the University of Pennsylvania on September 23. She has been editorial director of University of Michigan Press since 2015 and spent more than 16 years at University of California Press. At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition […]
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At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition from overseeing the national accounts sales and marketing team on September 3, when Amy Kaneko will joins the company director of national sales and marketing. Kaneko was most recently with Weldon Owen and Insight Editions. Cindy Uh has departed from Thompson […]
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Malcolm Edwards, former Gollancz chair and consultant publisher at Orion who left Hachette UK in May after 43 years at the company, will join Welbeck Publishing in September to serve as publisher of André Deutsch. He will “focus on resurrecting and reviving the Deutsch fiction backlist, alongside developing a new front list strategy which will concentrate on publishing new titles in some of his key areas of expertise: crime, thriller, science fiction, fantasy and horror.” Executive director Mark Smith says in the announcement: “Malcolm’s appointment allows us to begin to reinvent, republish and resurrect titles from high-quality authors that André […]
Woodson’s Red at the Bone Tops September Library Reads
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson is the top pick for September’s Library Reads. Also on the list is Evie Dunmore’s Bringing Down the Duke, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019: Romance sampler. The rest of the picks: Don’t You Forget About Me, by Mhairi McFarlane The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves No Judgments, by Meg Cabot The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Well Met, by Jen DeLuca