Rob Wall has been promoted to art director at Little Bee Books. At Open Road Media, Sarah Mangiola has been promoted to executive editor, content strategy; Carolyn Cox to managing editor content strategy; Catherine Phelan to senior editor; Olivia Mason to audience development manager; Amanda Yee to director of email production; and Amanda Shaffer to senior designer. Eric Meyer has joined as metadata specialist and Mike Wynne as customer acquisition manager for Early Bird Books. Sammy Brown has been promoted to publicist at HMH Children’s. Marissa Page has joined HMH as publicity associate. She previously worked as a journalist. Awards National Book […]
Hoang’s The Bride Test Tops May Library Reads
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang is the top pick for May’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and Juliet Grames’ The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, and Richard Roper’s How Not to Die Alone, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: The Farm, by Joanne Ramos The Flatshare, by Beth O’Leary Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors, by Sonali Dev Red, White & Royal Blue, by Casey McQuiston Storm Cursed, by Patricia Briggs Sunset Beach, by […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Makkai, Laymon, Thompson-Spires, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include: Fiction Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink) Biography David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Kiese Laymon, Heavy (Scribner) Current Interest Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead) Graphic Novel/Comics Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam (First Second) History Julia Boyd, Travelers In The Third Reich (Pegasus) Mystery/Thriller Oyinkan Braithwaite, […]
People, Etc.
Alessandra Preziosi and Bethany Vinhateiro have both been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Julius C. Jefferson Jr., section head of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has been elected president of the American Library Association. He will serve as president-elect for one year before becoming president at the 2020 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Awards In Australia, Vicki Laveau-Harvie‘s The Erratics won the Stella Prize, which celebrates women’s writing. Bookselling A new location of NYC’s McNally-Jackson has opened in The Shed, a new art and performance space at Hudson Yards. The […]
Awards: Booker International Shortlist, and More
The Booker International announced its shortlist, with last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk nominated again. Many of the titles are not published in the US yet, though Riverhead publishes two of the nominated authors. The full list: Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi (Sandstone Press) The Years, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (Serpent’s Tail) Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (forthcoming from Riverhead/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Shape Of The Ruins, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Riverhead/MacLehose Press) The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán (forthcoming from Coffee House Press/And Other Stories) Barnes & […]
People, Etc.
At McGraw-Hill, Donya Dickerson has been promoted to associate publisher of the business group, and Amy Li has been promoted to associate editor of the business group. Kate Meltzer has joined Roaring Brook Press as editor. She was formerly an editor at Penguin Children’s. Kirk Benshoff has joined First Second Books as art director. Previously, he was art director at Scholastic. Mary Altman has been promoted to senior editor, Sourcebooks Casablanca. Mary Duke has joined Chronicle Books as a marketing manager for children’s. Previously, she was marketing associate at Harper One. Pat Conte has joined Bear Manor Media as foreign […]