Amazon‘s October Spotlight Pick is Leif Enger’s Virgil Wander and the featured debut is A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos. Enger’s book is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter edition and available for download now, along with other Amazon pick, Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. The rest of the list: The Witch Elm, by Tana French A Map of Days, by Ransom Riggs Frederick Douglass, by David. W. Blight LikeWar, by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking Gone So Long, by Andre Dubus III There Will Be No Miracles Here, by Casey Gerald A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult Waiting […]
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Liza Cassity has been promoted to associate director of publishing for Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley. With a new managing director to be named as Rebecca Smart leaves for DK, Ebury deputy managing director and publisher Jake Lingwood has decided to leave as well after more than 20 years there, saying it is “the perfect time to leave and try something new.” William Brandt joins Arcadia Publishing today as director of IT, managing a transition to improved and upgraded systems and applications. He was with C&S Wholesale (previously Piggly Wiggly). Forthcoming McClelland & Stewart will publish an anonymous political thriller, THE KINGFISHER […]
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Lili Feinberg has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate publicist. She was most recently publicity assistant at Tor/Forge. Rebecca Strobel has been promoted to assistant editor at Touchstone. There’s another change in the executive ranks at CBS: longtime head of corporate communications Gil Schwartz (aka author Stanley Bing) will retire on November 1 after more than 20 years with the company. He wrote in a memo: “As fans of arcane SEC filings have noted, I had the option of stepping away early this past summer, but given the exigencies of corporate life at that juncture, I elected to stay in place […]
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Juliana Kiyan has been promoted to associate publicity director at the Penguin Press. Lara Blackman has joined Audible Originals as an associate editor. She was most recently an assistant editor at Touchstone. Robbie Egan will take over as ceo of the Australian Booksellers Association in early December. Liz Hohenadel‘s colleagues at Riverhead have set up a GoFundMe campaign for her son Owen’s education. Hohenadel, senior publicity manager for Riverhead, died on Monday at age 34. Awards Library and information association CILIP, the organization responsible for the UK’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, is making changes to the prize after an independent diversity […]
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Riverhead senior publicity manager Elizabeth Hohenadel, 34, passed away on Monday, “from a medical condition that arose suddenly a few months ago.” She worked at Riverhead since 2007, starting there as a publicity assistant. Penguin Publishing Group president Allison Dobson writes, “She was beloved for her gregarious enthusiasm, her keen but kind sense of humor, and a commitment to her authors that did not diminish after publication…. She excelled in bringing smart commercial fiction to a wide readership, with her relentless messaging, her personal appeals, and that well known humor.” She is survived by her husband Brian and her son Owen. Sierra […]
Briefs: An Eric Carle Imprint, NYRB’s Statement, and More
Imprints Penguin Children’s is launching a World of Eric Carle imprint in winter 2019, “dedicated to the works of the acclaimed and beloved author and illustrator.” Francesco Sedita leads the line, which “will focus on publishing books that are based in the core values of discovery, creativity, learning and growing.” Initiatives Penguin Random House resumes its annual “2-Day transit program” for independent booksellers for the seventh year, starting October 1 and running through March 1, 2019. Bookselling Shaw’s Book Shop in Westwood, NJ is closing at the end of September after 40 years of operation. Owner Tom Downs said Amazon […]