KF Literary Scouting has been appointed scout for Tchelet in Israel and Eksmo in Russia. Awards The winners of the Kirkus Prize were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Austin, TX. Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Riverhead) won for fiction, and Jack E. Davis’s The Gulf (Liveright) took the nonfiction category. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (DCB) won in Young Readers’ Literature. Best Of The renamed New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Books Awards announced its ten best books of the year: Muddy, written by Michael Mahin, illustrated by Evan Turk Frida […]
Big Publishers On Their Harassment Procedures
Sexual harassment allegations against a growing group of prominent men — including powerful media figures as well as celebrities with broad platforms — has reverberated across multiple business, touching the publishing industry in multiple ways. Accusations have resulted in cancelled book contracts, agencies dropping major clients, and more. The heightened sensitivity to sexual harassment has also influenced the internal functioning of companies, with some publishers bolstering their human resources procedures as a result. We queried the five largest trade publishers to see what steps their HR departments are taking to open channels of communication with employees and better protect them […]
December Indie Next List
The ABA named Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God their No. 1 pick for December. The book is also featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection available now for download. The rest of the list features: The City of Brass, by S.A. Chakraborty Year One, by Nora Roberts The Story of Arthur Truluv, by Elizabeth Berg Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor A Hundred Small Lessons, by Ashley Hay Three Daughters of Eve, by Elif Shafak Into the Drowning Deep, by Mira Grant The Whispering Room, by Dean Koontz The Ice House, by Laura Lee Smith They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill […]
People, Etc.
Kristine Puopolo has been promoted to executive editor at Doubleday, and Margo Shickmanter has been promoted to associate editor. At Little, Brown, Alyssa Persons has been promoted to associate publicist; Jennifer Shaffer will join as assistant publicist starting November 6; and Carina Guiterman has been promoted to editor. Adrienne Procaccini has been promoted to senior editor at 47 North and Skyscape. John Sloan, senior executive editor at Zondervan, will retire on December 15 after a 34-year editorial career. At Maria B. Campbell Associates, Rebecca Kuss has joined as co-director of the children’s scouting department. Previously she was a YA reviewer for Booklist. Sarah Kelleher has been promoted […]
November Bookseller Picks
John Hodgman’s memoir Vacationland is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for November and S.A. Chakraborty’s novel The City of Brass is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Ghosts of the Tsunami, by Richard Lloyd Parry Sticky Fingers, by Joe Hagan The Vanity Fair Diaries, by Tina Brown An American Family, by Khizr Khan Long Way Down, by Jason Reynolds Everything is Awful, by Matt Bellassai In the Midst of Winter, Isabel Allende Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser Barnes & Noble’s top fiction list for the month recommends Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich, also excerpted in our Buzz […]
People, Etc.: Cynthia Nixon to Host NBA Event
Actor Cynthia Nixon will host the National Book Awards ceremony on November 15. Jeff Tegge has joined Baker & Taylor Publisher Services as vice president of client services, reuniting with longtime colleague Mark Suchomel. Tegge was president of Legato Publishers Group and prior to that, vp of sales at IPG. Rachel Horowitz has joined The Bent Agency as a literary agent, specializing in children’s and commercial adult fiction. Most recently, she was children’s literary scout at Maria Campbell Associates. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock has left Liza Dawson Associates to launch Hyphen, a freelance editorial and coaching company. Jeff Shake has joined Rodale Books as senior designer, […]