The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for literature, has named Mats Malm its new permanent secretary. The previous permanent secretary, Sara Danius, resigned last April after a sexual harassment and leaking scandal. Anders Olsson has been filling the role since last June. Malm, a professor of literary theory at the University of Gothenburg, joined the academy four months ago. Katie Hope will join the Princeton University Press as marketing director in June, leading marketing and sales teams in Princeton and Oxford. She was most recently director of marketing and author relations at MIT Press. Jake-Ryan Kent was promoted […]
Awards: Edgars, and More
The Edgar Awards were presented across multiple categories Thursday evening. Winners included: Novel Down the River Unto the Sea, by Walter Mosley (Mulholland) First Novel Bearskin, by James A. McLaughlin (Ecco) Paperback Original If I Die Tonight, by Alison Gaylin (William Morrow) Fact Crime Tinderbox, by Robert W. Fieseler (Liveright) Critical/Biographical Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s, by Leslie S. Klinger (Pegasus Books) Separately, the Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature published in 2018, were also presented. The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction went to Drapetomania, by John R. Gordon (Team Angelica); and Paul […]
People, Etc.
At Workman Publishing, Cindy Lee has been promoted to senior manager, marketing & visual content for the Workman imprint; Neil Hiremath to senior manager, digital operations; and SarahMay Harel to associate manager, web operations & ecommerce. Rina Mody joins the company as manager, digital operations, working across all imprints. She was previously with Thieme, in the editorial and marketing departments. In promotions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, Lisa DiSarro is now executive director, marketing and Amanda Acevedo moves up to marketing manager, school & library; plus Taylor McBroom has been hired as marketing specialist, school & library (she was at Harper Children’s). Keely Platte […]
People, Etc.
At Farrar, Straus, longtime senior vice president, director of marketing and publicity Jeff Seroy “has decided to relinquish” those responsibilities as of July 1, publisher Mitzi Angel writes, after almost 25 years. He will become svp, director of special projects, still “handling a select group of key publicity campaigns, working closely with some of FSG’s core authors on forthcoming projects,” as well as acquiring and editing books on the performing arts and spiritual health. Jonathan Galassi, president, said, “Jeff and I have collaborated closely for twenty-five years, and so much of the success of FSG’s list has been due to […]
People, Etc.
Angela Man has joined Orbit as associate publicist. She was previously at Diversion Books. Cassandra Fernandez has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as marketing associate. She was previously marketing assistant at Random House Children’s. Sarah Homer was promoted to assistant editor at Harper Children’s. Imprints Skyhorse will launch a crime fiction imprint, Arcade CrimeWise, starting this fall and publishing 6 to 8 titles a year, including mysteries, thrillers, noir, procedurals, and spy novels. Arcade has previously published genre fiction as part of their overall line. The OTT live trial network backed by Dan Abrams and A&E Networks Law&Crime is starting […]
Briefs: Prince Memoir Coming In October, and More
Stephen Brayda will join the Harper One Group on April 24 as art director for Harper Via, Amistad and Harper Espanol, reporting to Judith Curr. He was previously with Riverhead. Director of events at Copperfield’s Books Barbara Lane debuts a column for the San Francisco Chronicle, Chapters and Verse, where she will “discuss what I love about the literary world, often focusing on our rich Northern California scene, personalities, trends, controversies and more.” Forthcoming As agent Esther Newberg had indicated in an interview a year ago, the unfinished memoir by the late Prince Rogers Nelson will be published October 29 […]