With the Buzz Books spring/summer collection still going strong, we continue our successful monthly sampler program with the release of May Buzz Books Monthly. 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 May monthly features fiction excerpts from: Salt Houses, by Hala Alyan Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane Mr. Rochester, by Sarah Shoemaker The Best of Adam Sharp, by Graeme Simsion Plus nonfiction from: Between Them, by Richard Ford The Fact Of A Body, by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich And […]
People, Awards, Etc.
At National Geographic, Lisa Thomas has been promoted to publisher and editorial director of adult books, reporting to editorial director of National Geographic Partners Susan Goldberg and evp of consumer products and experiences Rosa Zeegers. Crown Publishing Group has realigned its marketing department in New York into separate teams. Julie Cepler has been promoted to vp, director of marketing, adding oversight for Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway in addition to her continuing efforts for Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press, still reporting to Donna Passannante. Associate marketing director Lisa Erickson takes on additional day-to-day management responsibilities and will report […]
People, Etc.
Annie Chagnot has been promoted to editor at Spiegel & Grau. Jin Yu has been promoted to associate marketing director at Berkley. Patricia Cave has been promoted to publicist at Flatiron Books. At Chronicle Books, Rachel Geiger has been promoted to executive director of domestic sales, while Anna-Lisa Sandstrum has been promoted to senior sales manager. Melissa Grecco has been promoted to national accounts manager. Ian Delaney and Morgan Amer have each been promoted to assistant sales manager. Author of What Color Is Your Parachute? Richard Bolles, 90, died on Friday. Bookselling The big 37,500-square-foot Barnes & Noble in Bethesda Row in Maryland just outside […]
April Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s spotlight pick for April is Fredrik Backman’s novel Beartown and the featured debut is Omar El Akkad’s American War (which you can start reading now in our April Buzz Books Monthly). Also on the list is March Buzz Books title The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck. The other titles feature: Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley, Hannah Tinti Option B, Sheryl Sandberg, Adam M. Grant Ph.D. Void Star, Zachary Mason The Road to Jonestown, Jeff Guinn Nevertheless, Alec Baldwin Prussian Blue, Philip Kerr Barnes and Noble‘s best new fiction list for April recommends: The Romance Reader’s Guide to Life, by […]
HarperCollins Launches Anniversary Exhibit at Columbia
HarperCollins and the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library have announced an exhibition celebrating the publisher’s 200th anniversary. Open now through July 21 in the library’s Kempner Gallery, “Harper & Brothers to HarperCollins Publishers: A Bicentennial Exhibition” highlights continuity and change in the publishing industry. The exhibit includes, among other things, the contract for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Thomas Nast’s political cartoons for Harper’s Weekly, and correspondence with historical figures like John F. Kennedy and Richard Wright. As a part of the launch, they will hold a panel discussion on Wednesday, April 12, moderated by Columbia Publishing Course director Shaye Areheart […]
People, Etc.
Ed Spade has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as director of digital sales and strategy. Previously he was senior account manager for content acquisition for Ingram Content Group. At Harper Christian, MacKenzie Howard has been promoted to associate publisher of Tommy Nelson children’s books and Thomas Nelson gift books; Jennifer Gott has been promoted to editorial director of specialty publishing; and Holly Halverson joins as editor for specialty publishing. Previously, she managed her own freelance editorial business. Katy Lynch was promoted to senior publicist for children’s and young adult at Sourcebooks. Eric Myers has left Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret to start his own agency, Myers […]